Hell Freezes Over: Google and the Super Bowl

While the UK slept last night, it appears there was some sort of sporting tour­na­ment across the Atlantic and that the world’s most-​​​​used search provider advert­ised its search cap­ab­il­ities and new(ish) browser. It’s quite a nice advert, telling a (cliched) story in an original manner with a clean style.

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The Word: Publicy

You’ll have seen this word flying about recently and it’s time for some explanations.

Err… don’t you mean ‘pub­lic­ally’? [’publicly’ if you’re American]

No. Well, in some ways, yes, I do. Let me explain.

In the past, there has been an assump­tion that privacy was the default state of human exist­ence. It was only when

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links for 2010-​​01-​​18

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

A Warning on the Web

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

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Mobile + Cloud — Gartner’s Crystal Ball

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

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Social Media Helmet

Or is it the ‘buzz-​​​​monitoring bonnet’ as someone suggested?

Poor sod.

via ffffound.com

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