Monthly Archives: March 2008
On Friday I caught up with Euan Semple in London. It was great to meet, as we’d just conversed over email, voice, and video up until then, and of course had him present over video at our Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum in February. It recently occurred to me that when I catch up with interesting
Continue reading Video conversation with Euan Semple on Enterprise 2.0 governance and peer-to-peer
For the last ten years I have believed that collaborative filtering will be one of the most fundamental platforms for business and society. In a world of massively increasing information overload, the only way we will cope is to collaborate to filter what will be most relevant to us. Early this decade I was finding
Continue reading The many layers of collaborative filtering – news and entertainment comes to us
Japan and Singapore are examples of nations that have had highly interventionist industrial policies and industry support through the second half of the twentieth century, with great success. However once economies become developed, the key issues are far less about manufacturing prowess. Today the buzzwords in national economic development are knowledge, creativity, media, content, entertainment,
Continue reading Industrial policy in the global media economy
This morning I was interviewed on the Australian national breakfast television program the Today show, together with our new family pet, the robot dinosaur Pleo. The video is below. [UPDATE:] This TV segment is also available on the NineMSN website in better quality. While it makes for a nice fun TV segment, I actually think
Over the last week FriendFeed has being the hot topic of the online world, soaring in popularity after an already strong start from its launch on February 25. FriendFeed allows you to see all of the online activities of the people you like or admire, who choose to share that data. So for example I
A few days ago I attended a morning of the second Adtech Sydney, after last year chairing the keynote panel on the new media mix and the panel on blogs as a marketing tool last year. The event has progressed over its very promising start last year, with apparently around 30% more attendees, and an
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The winners of Vishal Sharma’s Startup Carnival have been announced. The first three prize winners are: 1. Scouta 2. GoodBarry 3. Suburbview The three judges (Duncan Riley, Justin Davies and myself) scoured through the 24 applications to identify the winners. My formal comment after judging the field was: It was very encouraging to see many
Tuesday’s edition of The Australian has an article titled Business yet to harness Web 2.0. Overall it takes a rather sceptical approach to the topic, though it does include some positive comments. Beginning with an overview of what Web 2.0, and suggesting it is confusing, it goes on: Business strategy analyst Ross Dawson says Web
Continue reading Is business yet to harness Web 2.0, or not yet willing to talk about it?
Robots have been perhaps the most-predicted and least-realized aspect of our future. Decades ago we believed that robots would soon be part of the household, doing useful tasks for humans finally able to laze about rather than doing chores. This has not yet come to pass, though washing machines, for example, are arguably task-specific robots.
Continue reading Why we will all have robot pets in the future
The week before the Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum, Future Exploration Network and IBM hosted a roundtable of senior executives discussing Enterprise 2.0. Highlights of the discussions were written up in a report which is being made openly available, to assist other executives in considering the key issues involved. Download the report here: Executive Insights into
There has been some great media coverage of the Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum. Below is a summary of some of the articles and media that are available online. It is very encouraging that the mainstream media is not only taking up these themes, but giving it such positive coverage – the articles are well worth
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We have been posting the speaker presentations at the Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum on the event blog as they have been made available. Below is a summary of the presentations that the speakers have provided to us: (Note: to see slide details in the slide shows, view the slides on Slideshare and put the presentation
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Jason Calacanis’ company Mahalo includes hundreds of interesting user submitted ‘How To’ guides. The team saw a gap, and created their own list of 17 (and growing) tips on how to save money running a startup. It’s a good read, and eminently practical. The thrust of the tips are to save money on things that
Continue reading How to save money running a start-up – tap talent don’t squeeze it
I’m at the PR and New Media Summit in Sydney, organised by frocomm. The delegates, drawing on frocomm’s market presence, are primarily in-house PR people, with a good represention of government departments as well as corporates. The initial show of hands on how many people read blogs (a few), write blogs (almost none), listen to
An interesting article in the Sydney Morning Herald titled Is that a computer in your pocket? examines how mobile phones, PDAs, portable computers and more are converging. It quotes me as follows: According to Ross Dawson, chairman of the Future Networks think tank, other obstacles will also frustrate users looking for a portable mobile computing
The recent Slate article on the future of libraries, together with the Extinction Timeline referred to in the piece, have been slashdotted. For those not familiar with this term, Slashdot was the first of the user filtered websites, and has always proudly sported the moniker “News for Nerds”. When I wrote about it in my
Continue reading Trends in the Living Networks has been Slashdotted…
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