I notice that Imogen Heap is continuing with the free streaming of her album Ellipse . And no doubt significantly because of the free streaming, Ellipse is charting at #5 on Billboard. It is a glorious album, though I think we can pretty definitely count the free streaming of the album on the web as […]
Now having launched version 2 of our Social Media Strategy Framework, we will release it in a variety of other languages. Since I am giving the opening keynote at IPZ2009 Interactive Marketing Summit in Istanbul on 21 October, we will kick off with the Turkish version, and release the other translations over the next couple […]
Our Social Media Strategy Framework released a few months ago has been getting a lot of attention and downloads. Based on the feedback we’ve been getting, one of the things that was missing in the first Beta version was a clearer explanation of the structure of the diagram, which has two simultaneous flows down the […]
Bruce Sterling , one of the founders of the cyberpunk genre, gave a fabulous keynote on the dawn of the augmented reality industry in Amsterdam when Layar’s Reality Browser was launched a few weeks ago. Bruce says that augmented reality s a techno-visionary’s dream come true. He’s been following the space since it began at […]
Dion Hinchcliffe has written a useful post titled Going beyond the hype: Identifying Enterprise 2.0 best practices, reviewing some of the work in the space, and with the intent of building a broader catalog of best practices. There is already valuable information in the post, and I’m sure Dion’s research will yield useful insights. However […]
ABC Radio National Future Tense this morning featured a discussion on the future of influence (click here for the podcast of both the radio program, and the unabridged discussion between Duncan Riley and myself). It kicks off with a quote from Chris Saad saying that influence and reputation are the currencies of the day, even […]
Last weekend’s Sunday Telegraph published an article titled Tech to the future that looks at what’s coming next in consumer and social technologies. Unfortunately it isn’t available online, however here are the sections where I was quoted: Futurist and author Ross Dawson says the next big shifts will pivot around how we connect to other […]
One of the most interesting topics at the recent Future of Influence Summit was the emergence of business models for influence. Some particularly intriguing issues were raised in the Business Models for Influence and Reputation panel, suggesting that one of the key currencies of the future will be influence. The panellists generally agreed that total […]
A few months ago I bought an MD80 video recorder – supposedly the smallest in the world, and smaller than the iPod Nano, which David Pogue reviews today as the smallest camcorder. I thought I’d do a video review of it, discussing both its use and demonstrating its video quality. In fact the biggest problem […]
Was just catching up on Ray Wang and Jeremiah Owyang joining Charlene Li’s Altimeter group from Altimeter. Jeremiah is quoted in the New York Times: Mr. Owyang said that his story holds lessons for other companies. “I think this is an interesting trend that many companies are going through — personal brands are here to […]
