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I stumbled upon an interesting article from last October’s Harvard Business Review on privacy which mentioned the research of the privacy expert, Alan F. Westin. He categorised people’s approach to privacy as follows. First there are the Fundamentalist; people who believe we are already living in Orwell’s 1984 and, like most fundamentalist, are strongly lobbying [...]

Imagine if you will, having the power to see what is happening anywhere in the world, and at any past or present time. And that power was shared eventually, to everyone in the world. This was the premise of the book, “The Light of Other Days” by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter, which discusses [...]

Social media has gone mobile in a big way. Team INQ has put together a nice piece of kit for the ever struggling mobile operator 3 that does social networking one better. It’s called the INQ¹.

Three strategies for how business could be using the Internet as a way to rebuild what they have lost and are in danger of never getting back, consumer trust.

When it comes to the recession, ethics fly out the door. Or does it? Consider the massive consumer and even governmental back-lash against the massively unethical behavior of the banks that threw the world economy into a tailspin. We are entering an age where CSR will be what keeps a brand from tanking in the post-recession world.

With the pending death of traditional online advertising, what’s an advertiser to do?
Well, one solution is to create smart branded utilities. Capitalizing on the iPhone wave sweeping the Western world, Kraft, or one of their smarter agencies, have cleverly created one of the most functional mobile branded utilities to date, the iFood Assistant.

By 2020, all media will have converged into pure digital platforms. Isobar, the agency who made this chart, believe we (as in Western countries) are already at the tipping point which started in last year and is continuing now. As media converge online to the point where digital media accounts for over 80% of media consumed, the distinctions between different types of advertising will disappear. Branding, direct, print, TV – will become a seamless marketing continuum.

In the last decade, the world as we know it underwent a fundamental change. A change so profound that it represented an extinction-level event for businesses of all types. The resulting impact of this event is suffocating any businesses incapable of making evolutionary changes, while literally wiping out some businesses altogether. Consumers are switching off and logging on to get what they want. Free entertainment. A sense of connection to others. Real stories. And knowledge.