Following on from that last post another quote that caught my attention last week was 10 words that summed up the economics of Free: “If you’re not paying, then you’re the product being sold“. This of course is the economics of free media. The economics of free social media takes this idea a step further:… [Read more…]
July 30, 2011
You’ve probably noticed the posts haven’t been flowing so regularly in recent times. You can blame that on the recent acquisition of an iPad (or what I call the iMag). As I have said before it is the technology (i.e. the Tool) that shapes the behavior and the iMag is a terrific tool for media consumption… [Read more…]
July 30, 2011
The headline on today’s post comes courtesy of a Tomi Ahonen retweet from a few weeks back. The line “Is that a smartphone in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?” is of course a word play on that immortal Mae West double entendre from the 1930′s. It’s a funny line but I think… [Read more…]
July 24, 2011
In the week that witnessed the demise of America’s most significant contribution to the suburbanization of high culture over the past 50 years (Think Borders), Twitter’s moment of self-awareness (Think The self realisation that it is the world’s first online multi functional real-time find me, find you and let’s exchange platform), the growth in Google + proves… [Read more…]
July 21, 2011
Probably the most interesting thing to emerge out of all this investment in the creation of social media business models based on Metcalfe’s Law is it has created a new kind of financial alchemy similar to the fractional reserve banking model that has devoured the US economy over the past 40 years. As you may… [Read more…]
July 20, 2011
So two months on after first exploring the fauxionary economics of Metcalfe’s law can we definitely say the web 2.0 myth of “the bigger the network the more valuable the network” is busted? As we have seen before the results are somewhat mixed but a trend does appear to have emerged that social networks trend towards lower… [Read more…]
July 19, 2011
I was reading Vivek Wadhwa’s post on Chile’s Grand Innovation Experiment and although I agree with him that many have tried to replicate the Silicon Valley formula (and failed) by creating Government funded tech-clusters I am not too sure he has hit on the secret ingredient with the model he has helped to shape in Chile. Vivek’s secret… [Read more…]
July 9, 2011
Today just a couple of mobile phone ads to illustrate what I mean by the mobile UX Design experience being all about creating activities that meld together the real world and the digital world. First the ad for Sony’s Playstation. An idea that as I have said before would have killed the iPhone at birth if it… [Read more…]
July 9, 2011
I have Antoine RJ Wright to thank for the inspiration for this post. He has just retweeted a comment by Andrew Grill suggesting that “ …there are no challenges in mobile, just sites not yet mobile optimised!” Now I am assuming that what Andrew is suggesting here is the sites in question are web sites. Therefore the challenge ahead… [Read more…]
July 7, 2011
Tomi Ahonen has been keeping us entertained with a series of posts on the Nokia sage. Everything from karaoke to an MBA meets cosmopolitan questionnaire. Next week I am anticipating the libretto to Wagner’s ring cycle to be rewritten as the Nokia Story. In the end though the problems confronting Nokia are simply a matter of business… [Read more…]
July 31, 2011
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