Archive for the ‘Science’ Category

Bacterial finance

Thursday, September 24th, 2009Now such a title could bring to the surface all kinds of ideas, some of them not very pleasant, however, Harvey Rubin argues that financial institutions have a great deal to learn from nature,Whether you call the current financial situation ...

A reality check for augmented reality

Thursday, September 24th, 2009After posting about mobile augmented reality here and here I came across an article in New ScientistI disagree, with the wobbly start headline, but I liked the reality check. Something that was reinforced recently by AR specialist Robert Rice, he ...

Whose doing what in a community?

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009Websites where users can organize and share information are flourishing, but it can be hard to know which users and information to trust. Now a team of European researchers has developed an algorithm that ranks the expertise of users and ...

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 ...

Is that distributed cloud computing on the horizon?

Monday, December 1st, 2008A hundred years ago, companies stopped generating their own power with steam engines and dynamos and plugged into the newly built electric grid. The cheap power pumped out by electric utilities didn’t just change how businesses operate. It set off ...

How social analytics benefits consumers

Friday, November 7th, 2008[caption id="attachment_793" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="The complexity and beauty of social network theory"][/caption] Using new social tools, consumers can decide, what information they want to reveal to the advertisers and what to keep private. For marketers and advertisers, this is a unique ...

The Black Gold of the 21st Century – refined data

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008An interesting piece/rant from Bob Garfield - SMLXL has written a whitepaper on Social Marketing Intelligence - the black gold of the 21st Century - please contact me alanm (AT) smlxtralarge (DOT) comWe've stipulated already that display advertising as a ...

When Petrabytes seem like kilobytes – what comes next?

Monday, April 7th, 2008 Affirmation is a great and positive word and I have been feeling some affirmation recently and here is another small slice The concept of Web 2.0 is a dynamic, user-driven mesh of technologiesAbsolutely, and Carlota Perez in her book Technological ...

Evolution of SMLXL

Friday, March 28th, 2008 In 2002, I founded a company called SMLXL - short for Small Medium Large XtraLarge.Its focus was and still is - how do businesses and organisations meaningfully engage in a commercial or social agenda with their audiences.  We were some ...

Social Marketing Intelligence and society

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008Sorry to our readers that I have been somewhat absent - Tomi thought I had fallen off a cliff - the fact is I have been working on a number of rather time consuming projects.Anyway a lot to get through.We ...

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