Why Social Media Has Gone Mainstream
Posted 14 April 9th, 2010
The hype around social media just keeps getting louder. Every week a new campaign and a new platform is released. So why has social media gone mainstream? Online networks, including social ones, evolve and take on a life of their own. In the real world, for multi-celled organisms to exist a number of cells must [...]
Google Blog post: investing in innovation
Posted 14 November 3rd, 2009
“We want to continue to create products that rethink industry standards, challenge the status quo and make people’s lives easier ‚Äî and we know that there are great minds out there with the same goal.” Follow this link to read the full article
The Future of the Internet – Google CEO Eric Schmidt
Posted 14 November 3rd, 2009
Very interesting interview. Well worth taking the time to watch.
The Google Story
Posted 14 October 27th, 2009
This is a great vid that quickly goes through the history of Google. Well worth a couple of minutes of your time.
Gordon Brown: Wiring a web for global good
Posted 14 August 11th, 2009
UK Prime Minister delivers this inspiring talk at TED. He discusses how we can use today’s interconnectedness to develop our shared global ethic.
Google Wave to launch in September
Posted 14 July 22nd, 2009
Google has finally announced the when it will launch it’s public beta of Google Wave. The announcement reads “… this morning we announced that we plan to start extending the Google Wave preview beyond developers on September 30th. This will take place on wave.google.com rather than the separate “sandbox” instance we are currently using, and [...]
What Google is trying to tell us.
Posted 14 July 1st, 2009
WHAT GOOGLE IS TRYING TO TELL US. FOCUSING ON FUTURE MARKETS. The 28th of May this year may end up being one of the most influential 24 hours periods in web history. It was on this day that Google launched a new communications platform called Google Wave, and if Wave lives up to it’s promise [...]
How social networks are transforming TV
Posted 14 May 5th, 2009
Social networks are changing the way people meet, interact, exchange opinions and find and view entertainment – as well as the ways brands engage with consumers. Now everyone has a voice and a platform to be heard. Sure there is a lot of noise and random chatter out there but it is already clear that [...]
Facebook vs. Twitter
Posted 14 May 4th, 2009
From BNET Blog “This one has been developing for some time now right before our eyes, but the titanic nature of the faceoff between what are arguably the two most aggressive representatives of Web 2.0 ‚Äî Facebook and Twitter ‚Äî has only recently heated up to the boiling point. As Brad Stone, of The New [...]
Losing Popularity Contest, MySpace Tries a Makeover
Posted 14 May 4th, 2009
From the New York Times: “As Owen Van Natta, the new chief executive of MySpace, starts his second week at the sprawling social network , he faces an acute demographic problem. While Facebook is adding users, MySpace is losing them. Many user profile pages on MySpace are either cluttered or neglected, resembling a strip mall [...]
Some interesting facts about the growth of the internet
Posted 14 April 28th, 2009
Just in case anyone was wondering just how big a change the internet, digital marketing and the possibilities it has brought really is.
Social Media Change Agent
Posted 14 April 24th, 2009
We have been diving into the HBR archives on YouTube EDU even more recently. This talk with Josh Bernoff from Forrester Research is very enlightening.
