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 | May 28, 2009 | industry futures, online marketing
I was on Twitter a couple of years ago and terminated my account after a few days as there was no one the network. I should have kept my account but who could have foreseen what has happened. Twitter has had a huge rise in popularity in the past 6 months as...
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 15, 2009 | big ideas, industry futures, TED
The other week I was dropping a neighbours kid home from an after school programme. He asked me why my car wasn’t a flash new one. I wanted to say that I’m trying to reduce the size of my carbon footprint and I’m hoping this is the last petrol...
by JAK | Apr 7, 2009 | big ideas, industry futures
Hazel Henderson writes in a recent post “A venture capitalist friend of mine asked me in a recent discussion about the financial meltdown, “who will be the new financiers?” I answered immediately, “the new financiers will be the high-level information and...
