When I posted a little while back about using an external keyboard with the iPad, I promised to share how I use the iPad for work. When I bought the iPad I found it quite frustrating for a while in trying to use the iPad as I wanted, but I managed to work it out, […]
The Business21C radio program on Monday morning broadcast an interview with myself and and a representative of Anonymous on the topic of cybercrime. You can listen to the 25 minute cybercrime program as a podcast from the Business21C site. Here is the description of the program: Last month the hacking of Sony’s PlayStation3 system that […]
Tomorrow morning I am giving a keynote to the managers of a national shopping center group about the power of social media in retail, focused on fashion. Here are the slides for my keynote. As always, the slides are not intended to stand alone, but to provide visual support for my presentation. The Power of […]
While Twitter started in the US, it is now a global activity. Below, courtesy of Twitter Grader’s Top Cities, is the list of the current top 100 cities in the world on Twitter, based on the total number of users who put that city in their location setting. We have color-coded it to make it […]
Today I spoke at Australian Chambers Business Congress on Build Your Business with Crowdsourcing. Below are the slides from my presentation. Usual disclaimer: these slides are meant to accompany my presentation, not to stand alone. But in fact this time there is a little more detailed content than usual in my slides, as this was […]
Here is an excerpt from my book Living Networks, giving an introduction and context to my coverage of the fundamental shifts in the intellectual property landscape today: In 1421 the government of Florence awarded the world’s first patent to Filippo Brunelleschi for a means of bringing goods up the usually unnavigable river Arno to the […]
One of the key facets of the rise of the reputation economy is that reputation and influence can increasingly be measured. The rise of tools that measure people’s influence in social media channels, such as PeerIndex, Klout, and Twitter Grader, is just the beginning of a far broader shift to metrics of influence and reputation. […]
Last Friday I was at the opening party for the Vivid Sydney festival, on East Circular Quay directly opposite the Opera House. The opening speeches concluded by triggering an absolutely awesome light show on the Opera House, called Lighting the Sails. The Opera House has been lit up for the last two festival, but this […]
I am at the launch of Digital Sydney, part of the Vivid Sydney and Creative Sydney festivals. The reality is that for much of the last decade and more, the New South Wales government has been among the least supportive of the Australia states for the digital and creative industries, with in contrast Victoria, Queensland, […]
Last week just before I flew to China I did an interview on SkyNews Tech Report about the future of today’s technology. Topics we discussed in the interview include:
