by JAK | Jul 2, 2012 | big data, culture, industry futures
Have you ever wondered what the real news is? One way of discovering what is really important to different readers is to look at media where there is a ready flow of comments. The Economist does this quite well with live bubble style graphics being generated by topic....
by JAK | Jun 30, 2012 | culture, industry futures
As the father of a very creative daughter who loves to design and make all kinds of things I am keen for her to check in with subject matters experts across a wide range of disciplines. So on Thursday the super kid and I went into the Engineering school for an hour to...
by JAK | Jun 26, 2012 | online marketing, WordPress
On April the 21st we had a WordPress users event in Auckland called a wordcamp and, no – it has nothing to do with scrabble 🙂 It is a celebration of what WordPress users are up to. This year we wanted to make the talks as useful as possible for attendees and...
by JAK | Jun 24, 2012 | big ideas, general business, industry futures
For any social network being able to generate a virtual currency is part of the territory. That gets way more interesting when game or social network users can convert any credits they have earned into a virtual or real currency. That is the real tipping point for the...
by JAK | Jun 20, 2012 | culture, industry futures, online marketing
It has been fascinating to watch twitter and other social mediums develop over the past 3 years or so. I work on lots of projects and as one person in the video below says the 11,000 names in his contact database built over many years are a very real measure of...
