by JAK | Jun 20, 2009 | big ideas, culture, industry futures, TED
Until very recently the trade-off between richness and reach with media and communications tools on the internet has seen mixed results but we are very close to some exciting breakthroughs. This means news is old when it gets through the media process as savvy...
by JAK | Jun 10, 2009 | big ideas, culture, online marketing
Here are three great post insights on how twitter is changing the game for all businesses. The three featured writers are Andrew Dubber, Dr Mark Drapeau and Laurel Papworth. Andrew Dubber has just noted that this is one of the top posts on his site this year. Read...
by JAK | Jun 6, 2009 | big ideas, culture, development
One of the developing trends I have been noticing is the big rise in uber-connected people leveraging their social and business networks for a common cause. I support this but wonder if some of the media ripples from the all of this activity are being somewhat...
by JAK | May 23, 2009 | big ideas, culture, industry futures
A few weeks back I noticed a review on Techcrunch about OpenTable. That company IPO’d last week raising $70m to fund their growth. “On OpenTable you can search for immediate openings in a given neighborhood. Most online reservations sites have an hour cut...
by JAK | May 5, 2009 | big ideas, industry futures, TED
As beings it seems to me that – we are all wired to look for patterns partly to decipher meaning but also because the sheer amount of information we get can be so overwhelming. We are also constantly comparing the “news” to our own reference points...
by JAK | Apr 29, 2009 | big ideas
For the past week or so it has been interesting to note the different media treatments of the developing swine flu story. It now clear that globalisation and easy air travel means there are almost certainly more case of the flu than we know about and in more places....
