Social Advertising Intelligence
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008 Posted in Advertising, Economics, Media, Networks, Social Networks, Statistics, Strategy, Trends, Web/Tech | 1 Comment »The Social Marketing Intelligence company ? Xtract has just released a paper on Social Advertising Intelligence There are many people, companies, striving to make sense of the networked world from a commercial perspective - this started ...
Xtract at Millenium Prize Finalist Symposium
Thursday, June 12th, 2008 Posted in 7th Mass Media, Advertising, Convergence, Darwin, Economics, Engagement Marketing, Media, Mobile, Networks, News, Social Networks, Strategy, Trends, Web/Tech | No Comments »The Millenium Symposium is an event that takes place in Finland and in fact brings many people together far and wide. For example The Chief Editor and Publisher, Jason Pontin of MIT Technology Review The ...
Social Media Will Change Your Business - Engagement by any other name
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008 Posted in 7th Mass Media, Advertising, Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Distribution, Economics, Engagement Marketing, Generation C, Media, Participation, Social Networks, Society, Trends, Web/Tech, Weblogs | No Comments »Tomi and I did not use the word Social Media in CDB, but we did describe a phenomenon that we called the 4C's Commerce Culture Community Connectivity The once separate provinces of innovation, technology, economic activity, culture and communities are pulling together and converging into ...
All quiet on the Western Front?
Thursday, June 5th, 2008 Posted in Economics, Media, Mobile, News, Strategy, Trends | No Comments »Its been a buy week - though not on this blog. I have been traveling widely this week throughout the US - talking to VC's, media companies and investment bankers. So the long days and travel have curtailed my blogging activities. What was ...
Connectivity unleashes productivity
Thursday, May 29th, 2008 Posted in 7th Mass Media, Culture, Darwin, Economics, Mobile, Networks, Social Networks, Society, Statistics, Trends | No Comments »Kevin Kelly gives us a blow by blow account of a speech made at the Long Now Foundation about decentralising control, the Gameen Bank and how that has helped local and poor populations presented by Iqbar ...
The shock of the old
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 Posted in Books, Culture, Economics, Philosophy, Society | 2 Comments »The leader in the Observer this weekend on the Hay-on-Wye book festival raised some pertinent points of interest for me. Old technology has a noble history of refusing to die. For decades, vinyl has defied the march ...
The economics of abundance and human behaviour
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008 Posted in Culture, Economics, Retail, Society, Statistics, Trends | No Comments »What information consumes is rather obvious. It consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention. The only factor becoming scarce in a world of abundance is human attention. Said the economist Herbert ...
Punctuated Equilibrium for the Johnston Press
Friday, May 16th, 2008 Posted in 7th Mass Media, Advertising, Citizen journalism, Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Distribution, Economics, Engagement Marketing, Media, Newspapers, Participation, Statistics, Strategy, Television, Trends, Web/Tech | No Comments »Its sad when you see entire industries under threat - its sad when those industries also have only themselves to blame. Sometimes however they just cant see it coming - Blindsided As Stephen Jay Gould wrote Structural or mental ...
The future of TV - Monaco
Thursday, May 15th, 2008 Posted in Advertising, Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Distribution, Economics, Engagement Marketing, Media, Mobile, Strategy, Television | No Comments »I have meet some interesting people in Monaco. Thoughts : panel-based audience measurement - and counting for the digital age is madness... Steam age technology in the digital age People are still hung up on the furniture (formats) of commercial messaging... We need new ...
The advertising arms race in social networks
Saturday, May 10th, 2008 Posted in Advertising, Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Distribution, Economics, Engagement Marketing, Generation C, Media, Networks, Participation, Social Networks, Statistics, Trends, Web/Tech | No Comments »The Stampede For Social Network Dollars Intensifies writes Diane Mermigas The race to monetize and leverage the power of social networks is turning into a stampede, as evidenced by Microsoft?s recently renewed efforts to acquire Facebook in the wake ...
