The obligatory 3.0 post: this time with added You-nicorn
Does it strike anyone else as odd, that just a few months after Time celebrates a new era of the empowered You, most of the chatter about the next great leap – that some are calling Web3.0 – is a paradigm shift for technology (namely the arrival of the semantic web), not the end user? [...]
Man, I wonder how much they’d be making without that pesky Internet?
The current issue of Booz Allen’s Strategy & Business magazine contains some interesting data points – salutory reading for those who might think that the web has dismembered industry as we know it: Companies are sitting on mountains of cash, much more than they need. Holdingsat NYSE- and Nasdaq-listed companies topped a record $2.7 trillion [...]
Some principles for good data management
As companies around the world wake up to the new reality that the web flattens the playing field and offers more choices for people than they had before, there is realization that being customer-centric is probably a Good Thing. The next logical conclusion therefore it seems is the need to amass vast mounds of data [...]
Three out of four kids would like targeted ads on their mobile
Tomi T. A. points to an interesting recent finding. Q Research is reported in this week’s issue of New Media Age (April 19, 2007)with a survey of 1,500 UK youth aged 11 – 20. When asked simply – do youaccept ads to your mobile, the survey found 32% willing toaccept. Then when asked – would [...]
Nokia Beta Labs soft launch
Today is the soft launch of our very own Beta Labs – a place to test our new applications and services. Kind of strange that we’ve not had a place for betas in the past, but I guess it’s further evidence of our gradual move from products (“Here you go, it works ok”) to services [...]
S60 introduces web widgets
S60 has just launched web widgets. The Web Run-Time which allows the use of web widgets using standard web technologies – e.g. AJAX on the mobile and no separate download. This is one of the ways that the web makes more sense on the mobile than just slavishly trying to shrink the PC web interface.
Peter Kim picks up on Lester Wunderman’s comments at this week’s Forrester Marketing Forum: We used to be in the business of direct marketing – now we’re in thebusiness of relationship marketing. We will eventually move on to personal marketing, which will be facilitatedby the use of data. Four goals for direct marketing: Relevance, relationship, [...]
For society’s sake, don’t make those search engines too good
Dr. Helen picks up a profound quote: Men talk to their search engines more than their girlfriends, work colleagues or even their families. (And alas, this trend is set to continue – due to search engines being as smart as this, and as easy on the eye as this.) Search engines, like dogs, offer unquestioning [...]
From advertising to a direct dialogue with customers. Are you ready?
This note is aimed at brand owners, frustrated by the increasingly expensive and ineffectual advertising spending on traditional media and wondering how best they can get their message out. It suggests that today’s disrupted media business is too frail to support the demands of brands wanting to advertise. This is no bad thing in itself [...]
Credit card info sits on your hotel key card?
One of our security guys gave me a piece of photocpied paper, anonymous apart from a note at the bottom saying: “Information courtesy of: Kent Police”. It was in the first week of April, but it seems plausible enough not to be an an AFJ. If it’s true, I wonder what the hotels’ policy is [...]
- key to change is finding passion. but i wonder how david sobel actually got his fisherman to use his passion to deliver change? #mh2012
- "A good predictor of longevity is not just whether you're getting social support, but whether you're GIVING support" #mh2012
- Congrats Amos! @memotext @ourlark
- RT @jslorentzen: #MH2012 rajiv kumar: map your population via email traffic (or other method) to find key influencers > target for in ...
- likewise @grapealope. thanks for the link. let's keep talking about sensors and big ideas.
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Some stuff I read
- Aging in Place Thoughtful commentary about growing impact of longevity disruption
- Conrad Egusa Practical advice for getting startups off the ground
- Mobihealth News Brian Dolan’s excellent comprehensive guide to mobile healthcare news
- Quantified Self Extracing and making sense of data about ourselves
- Tim Ferris Life hacking guru, provider of the most value out of any book I’ve read, and a genuinely good guy.
- Venture Hacks Useful how tos for startups
Some stuff about me
- 2007/03 – Corporate Wikis Go Viral (Business Week) Two European companies show how the collaborative practice spreads from early adopters of wikis at work to become mainstream business tools
- 2007/03 – Recommended Reading (Wall Street Journal) Mr. Johnston is one of the brightest minds in the business of connecting people. His insights spring from working on Nokia strategy from London. The site focuses largely on the direction of the new economy and lets readers profit from the insights of some
- 2008/04 – Mobility and location (The Economist) – reg reqd MICHAEL HALBHERR was driving from Berlin to Budapest the other day when he passed what looked like an empty field. The fact that his mobile phone stayed quiet annoyed him. Here he was, speeding by the site of Napoleon’s great victory at Austerlitz, and no
- 2008/11 – Innovation in America: A Gathering Storm (The Economist) Confronted by Asia’s technological rise and the financial crisis, corporate America is losing its self-confidence. It should not
- 2009/06 – MBA Tales: Searching for Work in a Recession (Business Week) For the Class of 2009, landing a job may seem next to impossible, but for the Class of 2002, flexibility and persistence paid big dividends
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