I started this experiment in blogging as an opportunity to shelve some old ideas - intellectual and conceptual baggage if you like – and (to use the popular SoMe vernacular) begin searching for new conversations. Here then was the chance to discard some old ideas about the web of destinations and sign posts, the MobCon and of course the power of FLINK! and replace… [Read more…]
January 28, 2011
I had intended comparing the Facebook valuation with Tencent, the operator of China’s largest online portal business, some time next week but the Bloomberg survey of 1000 investors, traders or analysts on that Facebook Valuation published today beat me to it. “The $50 billion valuation puts Facebook in league with publicly traded Tencent Holdings Ltd. The Shenzhen, China-based… [Read more…]
January 28, 2011
Having established that America’s value position on Innovation today is “I Think, You Do”, while China and much of Asia’s is all about “You Think, I Do” what then is Europe’s Innovation Value Proposition? Well, as I have said before, what Europe may need to accept is that it has a very different innovation culture… [Read more…]
January 27, 2011
It has been a big 24 hours in the world of Facebook. A new advertising product launch, The CEO’s Face Page is hacked, rumors of a Face Phone to be launched next month in Barcelona and Presidential mention in the State of Union Address. We explored the benefits of a Face Phone well over a year ago, and… [Read more…]
January 26, 2011
Mashable has picked up on the part in President Obama’s State of the Nation Address were he says “We Are a Nation of Google and Facebook” “None of us can predict with certainty what the next big industry will be, or where the new jobs will come from. Thirty years ago, we couldn’t know that something… [Read more…]
January 26, 2011
There is something sweetly ironic in Facebook boldly announcing its newest “late to market” ME2 strategy within days of President Obama’s Address to the Nation calling on America to “win the future by out-innovating, out-educating and outbuilding the rest of the world” . This time it’s Sponsored Stories. A variant on Twitter’s Promoted Tweets. While Promoted Tweets was the platform… [Read more…]
January 26, 2011
The IFPI published its 2011 Digital Music report [PDF] last week. I don’t recall it getting much airplay around the tech blogs but it is full of stats highlighting the sorry state of the music business over the past 5 years. We have seen before in the new economics of music how the music industry is suffering from… [Read more…]
January 25, 2011
That Reuters press release left me wondering if there wasn’t a monetization opportunity buried in all that data for Facebook, or maybe even Twitter, to exploit. You see one of the key reasons people travel is to discover a new romance. So if Facebook has become the place to discover romance for the SoMe generation why not monetize that opportunity… [Read more…]
January 25, 2011
Reuters has released details of a study that has found that Social Media [SoMe] cause new couples to jump into bed faster. The article is a wonderful piece of NOTI. Full of bold stats but no qualification of the sources, nor the survey methodology. Here’s a just a sample. You can read the rest here. Nearly four… [Read more…]
January 25, 2011
Let’s apply a little bit of thought leadership to the Social Media [SoMe] marketing trend and take a look at the impact of some of the Top SoMe Campaigns from last year had on the social awareness of these “cutting edge” Brands. Of course the choice of these campaigns is largely arbitrary but I seem to recall that Mashable ran cover… [Read more…]
January 29, 2011
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