Archive for the ‘Strategy’ Category

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 ...

All the rest is Spam, spam, spam, spam

Thursday, June 5th, 2008 Posted in Advertising, Convergence, Darwin, Engagement Marketing, Quotes, Retail, Strategy, Trends | No Comments »

Sitting here at JFK this caught my eye All the rest is spam by my friend DC @ Fasterfuture blogspot David mentions a Scott Karp post Why Traditional Advertising Formats Fail On The Web He should have said ...

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 ...

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 ...

From SatNav to SatCom

Monday, May 5th, 2008 Posted in 7th Mass Media, Convergence, Economics, Networks, Strategy, Trends, Web/Tech | No Comments »

The future is already here but its just not evenly distributed is a phrase attributed to may people - but the thought came to my mind when reading about the creation of a new service 230 Miles of ...

On the origin of Social Media and Advertising

Friday, April 18th, 2008 Posted in Advertising, Culture, Distribution, Economics, Generation C, Media, Mobile, Networks, News, Social Networks, Society, Strategy, Trends | No Comments »

Read it here Though Mark Selby speaking at Forum Oxford today says its not UGC - It is in fact Collaborative Social Media and I buy that. UGC - for advertisers USER read CONSUMER - faceless ...

How do I reach Jan Chipchase @ Nokia and why is Apple so bad? [2]

Thursday, April 17th, 2008 Posted in 7th Mass Media, Culture, Mobile, Sociology, Strategy | 1 Comment »

I posted on Nokia's ethnographic research and used a Wired article as an example of 2 different ways of approaching product design And David Clark commented Its important to note that Apple doesn't shun user research ...

How do I reach Jan Chipchase @ Nokia and why is Apple so bad?

Monday, April 14th, 2008 Posted in 7th Mass Media, Advertising, Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Distribution, Economics, Education, Engagement Marketing, Generation C, Participation, Philosophy, Social Networks, Society, Strategy, Travel, Trends, Web/Tech | 4 Comments »

If you need to reach Jan Chipchase, the best, and sometimes only, way to get him is on his cellphone. The first time I spoke to him last fall, he was at home in his apartment in Tokyo. ...