Search results for: “algorithmic”
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Friendly foxes + more things
Friendly foxes pull in tourists to give Tohoku region a boost – AJW by The Asahi Shimbun – interesting that Tohoku’s friendly foxes awareness is word-of-mouth driven across so many different cultures. More Japan related posts here. Avicii Has Announced His Retirement – Magnetic Magazine – probably makes sense when you look at the current state of…
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Twitter troubles
You can read elsewhere about Twitter troubles, I have linked to some of the best analyses I found out there at the bottom of this article. If you don’t have time to go through the the analyses around Twitter troubles, here’s the ‘CliffsNotes’ version: Management turnover. Three different heads of engineering in 18 months, five…
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Burberry turnaround + more things
Jing Daily: Burberry’s plan to turn it around in Hong Kong – go local – it makes sense that Burberry comes up with designs that better suit the humid subtropical climate of Hong Kong and southern China. Burberry has China as its biggest market Getting Hong Kong right is mission-critical for Burberry. More related posts here.…
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2014 crystal ball gazing: how did I do?
2014 crystal ball gazing 2014 crystal ball gazing was a culmination of thinking that I have been doing on where digital is going. For the past few years I have been thinking about where digital is going and what it all means. At the end of last year here were my projections. I do realise…
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Why did Yahoo Directory closing become a big deal?
Yahoo Directory is a bit like the shark. It has been around pretty much as long as the modern commercial web. Yahoo! was among the first online media companies. Whilst peers like Lycos and Excite disappeared Yahoo! managed to survive. The name Yahoo! is actually an acronym: Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle. Yahoo! started as…
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Big data issues
Big data origins In the past, what is now included in the envelope of big data resided with just a few organisations. The story of big data started with the US government. The government used a young company called IBM and their punch card technology to help tabulate their census data. Punch card technology started…
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2014: just where is it all going?
You can read about how I got on last year here. This year’s aka 2014 predictions in no particular order: Amazon won’t do drone delivery in 2014 – The reasons for this are many. Drones are limited by payload, to ability to land, the amount of energy they can hold for flight time and piloting.…
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Cross border NFC services + more
DOCOMO and KT Agree to Launch Cross border NFC Services— To develop international services building on partnerships with key players — | Press Center | NTT DOCOMO Global – interesting move, I wonder if the big five wireless companies in Europe (Telefonica, Vodafone, France Telecom, Three, Deutsche Telekom) can do something similar in terms of…
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2010: How did I do?
About this time last year I wrote my 2010 predictions on technology, media, consumer behaviour and online: I see 2010 as a time when more people start thinking about how we deal with the trust-based issues that social media throws up… We need to think about the implications for etiquette, ethics and what will be…