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I received an email from someone Group SPR alerting me to some graphics that were created at Disrupt and sponsored by, apparently, GE. The email declared that I was “allowed” to republish this story if I include the link back to the …
Governments or Social Networks?
French President kicked off the gathering in Paris, hailing the assembled players as the leaders of the “Internet revolution”, but warning that with their power comes great responsibility. He hailed the role of the Internet in helping protestors organise recent Arab uprisings such as …
Head in the Cloud
Yesterday at the Pervasive Software Metamorphosis event I spoke on a panel hosted by the esteemed Ray Wang and on this panel, which was for an audience of journalists and analysts, we talked about the cloud and big data. Here’s my take on …
The Interest Graph, People are Complicated
For several years now we have become comfortable with the computer science notion that a graph maps our people connections. The concept of social graph has moved from arcane geek speek to that of mainstream concept, thanks largely to Facebook but certainly …
Selling My Personalized Rate Card and Amazon’s New Kindle Pricing
Amazon announced a version of the Kindle that can be had for $25 less, providing you are willing to subject yourself to screensavers that are ads and banner ads at the bottom of the home screen. I don’t have a problem with …
+1 on +1
Okay so it’s not as mass market as the Like button is, but Google’s attempt to embrace social interactions is a better start than people are giving them credit for. I agree with Louis, this is a hint at a future rather …
The Crowdsourcing Sweatshop, Not Really
There is a lot going on in this review of the a SXSW session on the “dark side of social media” and the participants are raising really interesting points of view, but I want to focus in on one particular passage: In …
And Doggonit, People Like Me!
We have been using Rah Feedback for a while now and by way of feedback… I’m not liking it. Rah is a lightweight feedback tool that your colleagues can use to evaluate you on a number of dimensions. This is, IMO, the …
Retargeting Ad Campaigns
I read that RadiumOne raised more money at a valuation rumored to be $200m. I can see that. Retargeting is very popular and for good reason, it works. You have seen this in action, you go to a website and then the …
QR Codes, Undecided
I love QR codes. They gives me something to do with the barcode scanner on my Evo. And occasionally they perform a function that is actually useful. A few weeks ago I started poking around and trying out different apps for creating …