by JAK | Jul 15, 2010 | industry futures, online marketing
We have been hearing that Facebook is due to hit 500m users this month. As a student of human behaviour this seems to be one time when the passenger get to be the driver in pretty much any way they choose. Unlike in many areas Facebook is ideal for 500 m niches of 1...
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...
by JAK | Feb 25, 2009 | big ideas, industry futures
A few weeks ago the World Economic Forum took place in Davos. NZ has a Jobs Summit this Friday 27th Feb Stewart Wallis from Nef (the new economics foundation) was there (Davos) and made these observations. “People are clearly prepared to listen to ideas that...
by JAK | Oct 12, 2008 | big ideas, industry futures
On Thursday / Friday I wrote a long piece trying to make more sense of the credit crisis. Well that post snowballed and I kept making updates. This means some of the regular visitors may have missed parts. For that reason I have cut the post into 2 sections –...
by JAK | Oct 1, 2008 | big ideas
By the time this comes out I should be in the wilds of Central Otago or Dunedin. One of the joys of being online is that you can remote link from almost anywhere. (The local internet guy has gone whitebait fishing! so access is somewhat limited though.) It is school...
