Some nice data on the demographics of LinkedIn has just been compiled, shortly after it has reached 100 million users. Notable are the country breakdowns, shown here: It is interesting to see India and Brazil so highly ranked, while Netherlands, Australia, and Canada, with populations of 17 million and 22 million, and 33 million respectively, […]
Turntable.fm has certainly created a sensation – over the last couple of weeks it has been one of the hottest topics on the web. Deservedly. It really changes the game in making music truly social. And the concept, the strategy, and the execution are superb. One of the things is really well conceived is their […]
This morning I gave the keynote at the MyBiz Expo 2011, on Business Opportunities of the Future. I had been interviewed for the cover story of February edition of MyBusiness magazine on which industries will prosper and shrink in the decade ahead. I shared some thoughts on the blurring boundaries of industries, and some specific […]
You may have seen the marvellous news that Iceland is crowdsourcing its new constitution. Draft clauses are put up on the Internet for people to comment on below, or on the Council’s Facebook page. Council meetings are open and streamed live, video interviews with council members are posted on YouTube, and they interact with citizens […]
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 […]
