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Refined social data changes everything you ever thought about marketing

Thursday, September 24th, 2009[caption id="attachment_4447" align="aligncenter" width="482" caption="http://www.flickr.com/photos/21782644@N04/3191535692"][/caption]This is the basis for my presentation @ Monitoring Social InformationIn the near future wars will be fought over scarce resources; water, oil, and food. The other war that will be fought will be over data. ...

The open gardens of augmented reality

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009Recently we posted about Layar – an augmented reality mobile screen, and I know that this is a topic that is going to transform marketing and communications and how in fact we interface with the world.INTERFACE WITHOUT INTERFERENCEIs a saying ...

The best kind of rules are those we apply to ourselves

Monday, September 14th, 2009[caption id="attachment_4400" align="aligncenter" width="252" caption="Johnny Cash walking the line: http://www.flickr.com/photos/8697877@N06/531859329"][/caption]Nice one Jamais, who goes onto to say in his postThe best kind of rules are those we apply to ourselves, those we believe in. Ethics--sometimes thought of as "how you ...

Becoming the change you want to see in the world

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009Was what I suggested was "my little Do" after I presented at the Do lectures @ Fforest in Cilgarren on Saturday. "My big Do" was asking people to take the language I had presented and use that to challenge what ...

Communities Dominate Brands – prescient

Saturday, August 1st, 2009Tim Harrap in a twitter post mentioned a conversation @ Marketing in Australia that identifies Communities Dominate Brands as being – prescient. We have become linked to what is now commonly called Social Media - thought I still prefer the ...

True knowledge in the semantic network

Thursday, July 30th, 2009Rennee Blodgett writes about her recent visit to Cambridge and interviews the CEO of True KnowledgeTrue Knowledge improves the experience of finding known facts on the Web. Think: semantic search. Their first service–the True Knowledge Answer Engine–is a major step ...

Digital Britain loses the plot

Monday, July 27th, 2009Recently a conference took place to discuss Lord Carters report on Digital BritainA while ago I asked David Bollier who had worked with the Aspen Institute for 15 years to help draft a response to the Digital Britain report - ...

television channels are history

Monday, July 27th, 2009says Time Berners LeeThe man credited with creating the web says that television channels will be history and that the internet should be able to offer a random access library of anything that has ever been broadcast. Twenty years after ...

Communication technology is political

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009Technology is Political from Jamais Cascio on Vimeo.Manuel Castells new book is called Communication Power, [Amazon] he writes reflecting on his time as an 18 year old protesting against the Franquist regimeWhat I sensed then, and believe now, is that ...

Life and commerce in the connectivity of clouds

Saturday, May 16th, 2009Nicholas Carr in his book The Big Switch describes how Edison transformed society, by being able to generate and deliver electricity through a connected network that was previously thought impossible - or had not even been though about at all.The ...

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