I do want one, and I am in the target market, but as a colleague of mine pointed out, it’s not actually a Mac, it’s still the iPhone OS, so it retains the control Apple want.
In fact if I think about it too hard I don’t want one. That succinct marketing message stating that over [...]
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Check out this amazing global animation of updates made to the OpenStreetMap project, something I was unaware of until I saw this years winners of the Best Data Visualisations awards on FlowingData.com and I urge you to check out the rest of them.
http://flowingdata.com/2009/01/08/animated-map-shows-one-year-of-edits-to-openstreetmap/
OSM 2008: A Year of Edits from ItoWorld on Vimeo.
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Crowdsourcing is the ultimate form of handing control back to the people. Indeed it is this type of Glasnost that some people believe will be the way business manage to continue operating in the future.
Here’s a cracking example which could save the motor industry. A new independent car company is rising from the ashes of [...]
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This is a bit of a melon twister!
Google’s own great blog has an article on it that (the equally great) ReadWriteWeb blog has picked up, about the lastest use of anonymised GPS data.
Google’s amazing ability to crunch vast quantities of data is proving more useful than even the ‘real time web’. In this case they [...]
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Get your head round this puppy!
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It’s been an interesting week.
First Seth Godin decides to back an idea that aggregates buzz around brands and creates a separate page for each brand curating this freely accessible content that can be found anywhere on the web – Brands In Public. As an individual heading up an independent company called Squidoo Seth gets pilloried [...]
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Vendor Relationship Management is hard to get your head round. It’s openness and data sharing taken to the extreme. It’s the fulfilment of user control. It’s what is left when the social revolution is won.
To aid digestion I’m quoting here in full a text from Adriana Lukas, that she delivered back in June at the [...]
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OK, so firstly apologies for the mouthful of a title, but I have just finished reading an inspiring book – Social Media Marketing: How Data Analytics Helps to Monetize the User Base in Telecoms, Social Networks, Media and Advertising, in a Converged Ecosystem (phew!) – which covers these topics and I wanted to share my [...]
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I read with great interest Brian Appleyard’s article in the Sunday Times this week about the threats Apple faces if it loses Steve Jobs.
There is of course no doubt of Jobs’s influence on, not only Apple’s success but that of Pixar, and the fact that he is the man behind the iMac, the iPod and [...]
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Using RSS on a regular basis? If not, why not? Heralded some time ago as a game changer RSS has proven to be just that – the best, easiest and quickest way to digest regular content from the web.
Here are 8 reasons why Google Reader is the best RSS reader to use:
1. Share-ability
At the click [...]
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