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[This post first appeared on the Getting Results From Crowds book website] Research firm IDC has forecast that there will be 1.3 billion ‘mobile workers’ in the world by 2015, representing 37.2% of the global workforce. This points to the massive explosion of what I call the ‘global talent economy’, in which talent can be
Continue reading In the global talent economy over 50% will be mobile workers
Mary Meeker, formerly of Morgan Stanley and now of venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers, continues to do her annual presentation at Web 2.0 Summit, providing an unparalleled compilation of research about the global internet industry. There is a lot to digest in the 65 slides of the presentation, so I thought it was
Chris Espinosa has written a very interesting piece about the Silk browser that comes on Amazon’s freshly announced Fire tablet. The “split browser” notion is that Amazon will use its EC2 back end to pre-cache user web browsing, using its fat back-end pipes to grab all the web content at once so the lightweight Fire-based
Research company Nielsen has just released detailed statistics on online activity, focusing on social networks and blogging, which at 22.5% of time spent online dominate Internet usage, with more than twice the next category games, at 9.8% of time spent. Below are a few highlights and comments from the full report. Facebook completely dominates the
Continue reading Detailed stats: Social networks dominate Internet usage, Australia still #1
In this final video in the series of ‘futurist conversations’ between myself and Gerd Leonhard of The Futures Agency, we discuss the future of Nokia as a keyhole on where the mobile phone market is going. Here are a few of the points we make in the conversation:
Yesterday I was interviewed on ABC TV about Google’s bid for Motorola Mobility. The interview segments aired were on the value to Google of Motorola’s patent portfolio and the implications for the Android ecosystem. Below are excerpts from the transcript of the interview on ABC.
When I recently ran a webinar series for Ketchum on Tapping the Power of Mobile, our second session focused on running successful mobile campaigns. Perhaps the most important thing that companies and agencies delving into mobile marketing need to understand is that there must be real value for customers and consumers in order for the
Continue reading The 8 sources of customer value in mobile apps and marketing
When I posted a little while back about using an external keyboard with the iPad, I promised to share how I use the iPad for work. When I bought the iPad I found it quite frustrating for a while in trying to use the iPad as I wanted, but I managed to work it out,
Continue reading 9 great ways to make the iPad a useful work tool: structures, setup, apps
Last week just before I flew to China I did an interview on SkyNews Tech Report about the future of today’s technology. Topics we discussed in the interview include:
Yesterday I completed co-presenting the three-part Ketchum webinar series on Tapping the Power of Mobile. The feedback was excellent, with record audiences of Ketchum clients and staff for the series. Here is an overview of the content we covered over the three webinars. The final session was on Where Mobile is Going, which looked at
Continue reading 6 uncertainties that will shape the future of mobile operating systems
In preparing for the Ketchum Webinar Series on Tapping the Power of Mobile I wanted some data on international differences in mobile operating system shares. I was just about to begin compiling some data from StatCounter when my co-presenter One2One CEO Simon Noel pointed me to a visual created by iCrossing who have done a
In a few weeks I will be in Beijing to give a keynote to the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) annual Company Directors conference. AICD has usually held its annual conference in Australian cities, but when in 2007 it held it in Shanghai they actually had far more attendees than usual. This is now
Continue reading Keynote speech in Beijing on How Technology is Transforming Business
I have just come across this – an excellent resource from PSFK on the Future of Retail. PSFK presents Future of Retail report View more presentations from PSFK The report covers 10 major trends:
Mobile is shifting to the very heart of media and content. As such, in delving into the future of media over the last few years I have had an increasing focus on the mobile landscape, how to tap its potential, and where it is going. Starting today, I am co-presenting a three part webinar series
Continue reading Ketchum Webinar Series: Tapping the Power of Mobile
Risks to Gartner’s smartphone forecasts: will Microsoft beat Apple, Nokia execute, and Samsung fail?
Gartner has just released some very interesting forecasts for smartphone operating system sales until 2015, as below. In an nutshell, they predict that in 2015 Android will take almost half the market, at 48.8%, and that Microsoft will overtake Apple, with 19.5% share compared to 17.2% for iOS. Nokia’s Symbian platform will fade to virtually
At Christmas my darling wife Victoria, who knows me well and has great taste, gave me an awesome case for my iPhone. It fulfils several functions: * It prevents dropped calls from the iPhone4 ‘death grip’. * It is solid enough to protect from being dropped or thrown by our 18-month year old daughter Phoebe,
The iPad has changed my life. It feels like I have been waiting for it since I became conscious. However the iPad alone doesn’t do the job. It is the iPad together with a wireless keyboard that has transformed my life. Two years ago tomorrow I wrote a blog post saying It is totally INSANE
Continue reading The REAL transformative package: iPad plus wireless keyboard
The lovely pace of change in the media world isn’t slowing down any… One day after Apple launched its long-expected subscription service, Google announced its One Pass content payment system. Here is a quick comparison. – What they are They are both payment and delivery platforms for content sales and subscriptions. – Delivery platforms Apple’s
It wasn’t long ago that one of the most solid and unquestioned assumptions of enterprise software was that users sat at a desk in front of a desktop (or sometimes laptop) computer. As such, maintaining a fleet of almost exclusively Windows-based computers was sometimes a larger task than selecting, developing, and running the enterprise software
Continue reading Will tablets take over enterprise work? More than half of large companies say yes
Doyen of internet analysis Mary Meeker of Morgan Stanley has provided some great data and insights in her presentation at Web 2.0 today. She has framed it around 10 questions Internet executives should ask themselves (and answer). The full deck is well worth going through – I have put that at the bottom of the
Very interesting results out from a survey by Cooper Murphy Webb of British iPad users: Source: Cooper Murphy Webb The study of 1034 iPad users in the UK showed that 31% prefer reading magazines and newspapers on their iPad, followed by 26% on their laptop/ computer and 24% on print.
On August 27 in Sydney The Insight Exchange is running an iPad Strategy Workshop as part of the Newspaper Publishers Association Future Forum conference. It is free for PANPA members and very inexpensive for others, including discounts for members of industry partners, so if you’re in Sydney I hope to see you there. See here
Earlier today I spoke on a live webcast on the Future of Workplace Communication as part of Viocorp’s Future Forum series. I took notes during the panel session and posted these live on my blog right after the event. I took notes while the other panellists were speaking: Nicky Wakefield, head of human capital at
Continue reading Thoughts on the future of workplace communication
Last week I interviewed my old friend Tom Stewart, formerly editor-in-chief of Harvard Business Review, and currently Chief Marketing and Knowledge Officer of Booz and Co, for a piece in CPA Australia’s magazine InTheBlack. I’ll share the article, on the role of financial executives in business strategy, on this blog later in the year. Tom
Continue reading Getting perspective: Hand-held business computers are over 20 years old
We all know that processing power has for many years increased exponentially and continues to do so. This essentially means that any processing-intensive task you can imagine will eventually be possible. Facial recognition happens to be a task that humans are hard-wired to be exceptionally good at. While computers struggled at this for a long
Continue reading No more checking in: why public facial recognition may take off
To many people, augmented reality is about annotating what you can see. Names of landmarks, reviews of restaurants, the sale price of houses, and so on. However with a little imagination, augmented reality can allow us to see what is around us but invisible, or what our environment will be like at another time. As
Continue reading Extending the scope of augmented reality to what you CAN’T see
Some ideas take a while to come to reality. Urban Signals is a New York-based company whose iPhone app notifies you when compatible singles are nearby and would like to meet. The iPhone app is free to download but requires a monthly subscription after the first month. While some suggest that this was only a
Continue reading Location-based dating is FINALLY hot, Hot, HOT!
I was just interviewed on Sky Business this morning about the news coming out from Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. In the plethora of announcements, what stands out for me is the increasing clarity of the emerging platforms battle, which is happening on two levels: mobile operating system and applications. Mobile operating system The launch
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