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State of the Internet. For infographic fans.

Posted in Data visualisation, Uncategorized, tagged , , , on March 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Here’s a great piece of infographic video with all of the latest quantitative data about the current state of the Internet. Gotta love the nice countdown to 2010 from 1997 showing the number of new social networks being created each year. Interestingly, there is a peak in the early 2000′s which wanes significantly in 2009 [...]

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The very human reason for the growth of Facebook.

Posted in Social marketing, Uncategorized, tagged , on February 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

In marketing blogs, we tend to go on and on about the power of social networking for connecting business to customers and for fostering business change. However in doing so, we tend to forget the real reason why social networks are so dominating our lives and how they completely change the shape of our world. [...]

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Seth Godin explains why it’s time to change marketing

Posted in Business change, Online advertising, Social marketing, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , on February 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

I stumbled upon this interesting speech from Mr. Purple Cow himself, Seth Godin. He combines the elements of his various books: “All Marketers are Liars,” “Purple Cow,” “Meatball Sundae” and his latest book, “Tribes,” into a single 1 hour speech which he gave at the Business of Software conference last year in Boston.

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Innovating the way we govern society

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , , , on July 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Some will remember the past decade as the decade the people started to claw back power from business and government. What with the rapid growth of online consumer activism, whistleblower sites and consumer driven watchdog organisations that has proliferated on the Internet, I have started to wonder if we aren’t nearing a future in which the current shape of government itself is outdated. What if there was a better way of running the country? One in which everybody could directly effect the direction we are heading and the laws that we pass?

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How the end of privacy could rid us of local policing

Posted in Privacy, Transparency, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , on May 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »

In a new twist, the complete lack of social prIvacy potentially could be a good thing. At least according to the author of We-Think, Charles Leadbeater. In his book, he proposes that we apply social participation strategies to government to foster communities that govern and police themselves, without the need of interfering politicians or police. In a kind of neighbourhood watch on steroids if you will, whole cities/populations would essentially be activated to watch over each other in a mutual peer support fashion.

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The end of privacy, part 1

Posted in Privacy, Transparency, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , on April 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

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 [...]

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The ELE event that hit the business world

Posted in Introduction, tagged , , , , , , , on March 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

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.

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