While trawling around on YouTube recently I came across a 1980s video of Tim Finn’s There’s a Fraction too much Friction and it got me thinking about the things that annoy me in dealing with businesses. I concluded that [...]
As companies embrace the notion of a reputation economy fueled by the power of social platforms this brings a new set of challenges for management and employees.
I was at the Salesforce #cloudcrowd event in Sydney recently and we were discussing this issue with guest speaker
Seth Godin wrote about the the attention economy. But it seems to me that we are also seeing the evolution of an online social recommendation economy.
When we all lived in villages there was a strong recommendation economy, and it was fuelled [...]
As we move away from the power structures and ways of thinking that governed the twentieth century we are seeing a desperate rearguard action from the power elites who ruled that time.
Dying Dinosaur Industries in their Death Throes
A good example of this is the film and music industries, [...]
The old style company, that is the company circa 1880-2000, had firm boundaries and fixed hierarchies in order to function efficiently. But with the advent of digital technology and the consumer social computing revolution there is a seismic shift in how technology is used within companies. There are also significant [...]
Friction is one of the more important concepts in the world. Many things are either made possible or impeded by friction.
Strike a match and the friction creates a flame. Yet that same kind of friction stops other things from flowing smoothly.
Perhaps the best description of the challenges that [...]
Steve Hopkins was telling me recently about an interesting law firm he’d come across in San Francisco – it’s called Robot. Where lawyer and junior partner Tim Hwang and his senior partners, Apollo Cluster and “Daria” XR-1029, work to merge legal and technical systems.
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Tonia Ries has just published an article titled Privacy Fail: Klout Has Gone Too Far, which outlines how Klout is indexing social networks and creating/measuring user profiles, even if they have never registered with Klout.
About [...]
Don Tapscott is a thinker I’ve followed for a long time. This recent interview is worth watching.
It’s time for a new approach that embraces hyperconnectivity and the digital revolution.
One of the various social media influence scoring platforms – Klout – has just changed its algorithm and overnight many people’s Klout scores have dropped.
This has caused one of several reactions:
complete indifference refutation of [...]
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