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This quote from John Hagel has kept coming back to me since I saw this Tweet a month or so back. I posted it on my Tumblog at the time but I’m coming back to it today because it captures the essence of both the potential and peril of social media. Sharing [...]
Yesterday I wrote that the market for social interest sites has matured to the point where it is difficult for new entrants, and this morning I saw the slide below which says something similar. It is one of ten predictions for 2012 from Roger McNamee and Mike Maples, two leading US VCs. You will [...]
The talk below from Forrester CEO George Colony was perhaps the most interesting one I saw at Le Web last week. He had two big points to make:
Web service/application architectures will shift to more local processing and storage. This is a natural result of the fact that processor and storage technologies are improving [...]
Last week I blogged about how e-tailers can improve their conversions and sales using data from Facebook and other social media sites. I also made the point that e-tailers will look for innovations that encourage us to link our ecommerce accounts with our Facebook accounts via Facebook Connect, so they they can get at [...]
One of the reasons that I’m a fan of social media is that I believe that Facebook, Twitter, blogs etc. are a powerful force for good by virtue of the transparency they bring to society and the relationships between people they engender (here are two posts I’ve written previously on this topic). I realise [...]
This great infographic was created by interactive agency JESS3 and published on Techcrunch this morning. As well as being a great quick capture of the state of the social media universe it is a good reminder of a couple of points that we all know but need bearing in mind:
There are [...]
When news of the $41m funding for pre-launch startup Color broke a couple of weeks back there was widespread debate about why so much money would go into such an early stage business and (predictably) what it means for the ‘we’re in a bubble’ hypothesis.
Shortly afterwards Jason Calacanis issued an email newsletter detailing [...]
On April 20th President Obama will host a town hall meeting at Facebook with Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg. This will be an all web event, questions for the President will be solicited on Facebook and the White House website and the event itself will streamed live on Facebook and the White [...]
Every so often I feel the need to write a post about the democratising effect that social media is having on the world, and on the back of what has happened in Egypt over the last week or two I want to write one today. For the first time since the industrial revolution just [...]
Bloomberg has an article today about Facebook’s push into ecommerce. Apparently Facebook is:
teaming up with startups, vendors, and even giant Internet rivals to turn Facebook pages into online shopping outlets fuelled by recommendations from friends who "like" to buy
This will be interesting to watch. I am keen to see which ‘Internet rivals’ [...]
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