by JAK | Jul 11, 2012 | culture, industry futures
This week I am at a 3 day internet conference. Unlike many events that I attend this one appears to be quite generalist although there are specific streams. First session that I attended was “Ms. Harbour will address the FTC’s enforcement trifecta – the Twitter,...
by JAK | Jul 10, 2012 | industry futures, TED
Back at the end of May I got to see these people all pitch 6 minute talks at Talent Search -TED@Sydney. All of them were good and I did like the Whale Shark guy but we had to try and vote for who we really, really responded to on the day. My top picks were Chantelle...
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 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...
