Hack Day tools for non-developers apophenia: Would the real social network please stand up? From Corporate to Personal: A Breakdown Of The Four Types of Twitter Profiles « Web Strategy by Jeremiah Owyang | Social Media, Web Marketing Yahoo committed seppuku today « The Jason Calacanis Weblog – I couldn’t have said it better myself [...]
Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones have addressed the fact most management books have only just about come to terms with the knowledge economy. Instead of workers being on the production line, they now toil away in front of PCs. But most management books don’t acknowledge that many businesses are now based around the efforts of [...]
Web 2.0 Asia :: A Glimpse into SK Telecom’s App Store – interesting that this is PC-side loaded apps rather than OTA (over the air) Snapshot of Social Networking in Malaysia – some interesting metrics here, you can see the way Friendster is now losing out to Facebook in a previous stronghold market as Facebook [...]
When Darwin arrived at the Galápagos islands, he came across species that had fantastically evolved from their counterparts elsewhere due to their prolonged isolation. Galápagos syndrome is used by Japanese telecoms executives such as Takeshi Natsuno, who developed the i-Mode system and now teaches at Tokyo’s Keio University to describe the Japanese handset market and [...]
latest statistics for digital china | Digital China Guide SoftBank – gobsmacked at some of the cool looking handsets that Softbank pack, though the specs on them often don’t live up to the cool design
I read Go Rin No Sho (The Book of Five Rings) a decade and a half ago, it is a great book but lacks of the clarity in translation that Sun Tzu’s Art of War has. Kenji Tokitsu manages to fill in many of the gaps by providing a better understanding of the man himself [...]
Shiny Unhappy People – UK’s Shiny Media Blog Network Engulfed In Chaos How HP Integrates Digital and Social, Kathy Durham, VP Marketing « Web Strategy by Jeremiah Owyang | Social Media, Web Marketing Apple has 91% of market for $1,000+ PCs, says NPD | Betanews Coca-Cola: A social media case study / we are social [...]
I woke this morning to find that Amazon had acquired US shoe e-tailer Zappos. Zappos is a business that is respected for its corporate culture and customer service levels. ZDNet has a write up of the deal here, a key take out from their article as their surprise at the apparent low value of the [...]
Lufthansa readies to reignite Connexion Social Media Statistics wiki Top 100 Follow Friday Twitterers in Youth Marketing & Trends – great resource to find interesting people to follow on Twitter by Graham Brown Yahoo Buys Email Startup Xoopit (YHOO) MySpace To Launch MySpace Mail This Week (NWS) Yahoo! in aggregate second only to Facebook for [...]
I was struck by this post on Japanese streetwear label Neighborhood’s blog for a ‘Vietnam-era’ Zippo lighter. The lighter has a burnished finish, wear marks on the edges like you would have from prolonged use and the kind of design that may have been carved by a talented soldier or to order by an engraver. [...]
Following on from my introductory post last night here is the notes that I had made from the presentation by GetJar’s Patrick Mork and the subsequent panel discussion. I have scanned in my original notes showing linkages etc which I thought may be more useful than re-writing them in a more linear manner. Patrick Mork [...]
I was part of a panel discussion hosted by VeriSign at the Century Club on Shaftesbury Avenue. The event covered factors that affect consumer trust in online gaming. Verisign had done some very interesting research around trust and how it relates to authentication in advance of the conference. I was there to talk about what [...]
JeanSnow.net — The Otaku Encyclopedia AT&T Park leading the way in digitally enhanced baseball – SiliconValley.com The Anatomy Of The Twitter Attack – more details on the TechCrunch Twitter scoop than you will ever need What we can learn from Poken Social network analysis and PR « Much ado about nowt – some interesting stuff [...]
I got to go along to Mobile Monday for the first time in ages. This evenings event was about mobile entertainment and I had a few pages of mind maps based on the content I got from the presentation and panel discussion. I will get these scanned in, posted up and commented on over the [...]
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