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...
by JAK | Jun 17, 2012 | big ideas
Back in ’88 I worked with some great people in a small management consulting firm. It was one of my first really good jobs because the team had the vision and drive to change businesses from the inside out. We targetted a sector which had high capital costs and...
by JAK | Jun 11, 2012 | big ideas, culture
Here is a simple analogy about information viewed as food from JP Rangaswami as presented at TED@SXSWi April 2012. If information was food would we consume it differently? “So I looked at the cultivation of information as if it were food and said, and said So we...
by JAK | Jun 7, 2012 | big ideas, culture, music, TEDx
Yesterday New Zealanders had an extremely rare chance to watch the planet Venus in transit across the face of the Sun on Wednesday the 6th of June. This opportunity will not occur again for 105 years. “From 10:15am until 4:43pm, viewers will be able to observe a...
