By Ian, on January 19th, 2010
The Predictive Web | Brian Solis Social Media becomes less about a move-and-react strategy and sets the stage for engendering meaningful interactions as well as building more tuned business infrastructures to support anticipated activity based on the intelligence and insight extracted from online behavior. (tags: predictions predictive intentions socialweb,) Continue reading links for 2010-01-18 By Ian, on January 18th, 2010
In this online radio interview, internet visionary Jaron Lanier talks about the danger of Web 2.0 turning us into a collectivist digital mush. He’s got a new book out, so doing a lot of PAs lately. The problems, to paraphrase, are these: Collectivisation We’ve reached for the wisdom of crowds, and this silences individual Continue reading A Warning on the Web By Ian, on January 15th, 2010 You may well have seen this already, but there’s a lovely interactive campaign being carried out by Dutch indie band C-Mon & Kypski. (Note: never heard of them; don’t care; bring back The Smiths). The idea is that fans can collaborate with the band in their latest music video. You use your webcam to Continue reading Social Media Done Well: One Frame at a Time By Ian, on January 14th, 2010
Late December and early January see the seasonal appearance of a popular type of blog post: ‘My Predictions for [Next Year]’. They’re a great stock-in-trade because you can say whatever you like and nobody can prove you wrong until the end of the following year, by which time everyone’s forgotten. I’ve written a couple in the Continue reading Mobile + Cloud — Gartner’s Crystal Ball By Ian, on January 11th, 2010 I’ve just installed the WordPress Mobile Pack, a free set of plug-ins that format, edit and compress your blog so that it works better for mobile users. It switches to the mobile version on-the-fly as it detects the user agent (browser) used. There’s a link to the mobile version in the sidebar, if you want to Continue reading Mobile Internet Users: The Silent Minority By Ian, on January 11th, 2010
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is reported as having changed his mind about privacy. The recent set of changes to the site’s T&Cs in December – which rendered members’ names, profile picture, gender, network, fan pages and friends visible to the world unless they explicitly changed their settings – merely reflects societal Continue reading Facebook on Privacy: ‘We’re Finished’ | About this BlogSocial tools, devices and web evolution are creating epochal change in media, society and business. The plan is to hide under the floorboards till it’s all over document some of the interesting parts of that change. More…. |
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