We’ve already taken a look at how important Google is the internet economy. So let’s now take a broader look at just how important the Internet is to the US economy. Or, put another way, if somebody switches off the Internet tomorrow would life as we know it come to an end? Once again we’ll… [Read more…]
March 26, 2010
You may recall in a much earlier post that I explored the idea of Banks becoming mobile phone companies and mobile phones companies becoming banks. In that post I suggested it was logical step for the Future of Banking but the problem would be convincing Banks they need to become Telcos. After all, one look… [Read more…]
March 26, 2010
For all of you out there busy prospecting for iDust on the long tail of Apple’s Gold Fields here’s a quick round up of the this month’s best iPad and iPhone posts. First up it comes as no surprise to hear that Google’s Nexus One continues to under perform by a factor of 7.5 to… [Read more…]
March 26, 2010
The disruptive power and inherent social value of Social Media is self-evident but what about the economic potential of social networks? Is it really possible to monetize these newly crowned behemoths of the web? Or, was Bo Peabody right when he proclaimed that “Facebook and Twitter will always be a crappy businesses” because the social web is not… [Read more…]
March 25, 2010
According to Hitwise, U.S. visits to Facebook.com surpassed visits to Google.com for the first time last week. So what better time to take another look at the growing impact of the Long Wave of Social Web. To begin with there appears to be little doubt that the second wave of the web is changing the way… [Read more…]
March 25, 2010
I’m sure anyone who is “intrigued by the notion of mobile as the glue that binds together our online and offline experiences” will be interested in taking a look at what I have found on Greg Verdino’s blog earlier in the month. In the post he takes a look at the use of QR codes… [Read more…]
March 25, 2010
I was interested to read about one of the Partner’s from Sequoia Capital spruiking Facebook as the future of media to an audience of marketers at OMMA Global earlier this month. “The new mass media — with half its 400 million users logging in every day, “that’s almost like what broadcast television was 20 or 30… [Read more…]
March 27, 2010
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