Agentic AI: How Voice-Driven Agents Are Changing the Way We Use Apps
Kate Carruthers I spoke at the Front End of Innovation (FEI) Conference in Boston back in June 2024 about AI, innovation and the future. I have been thinking a lot about this…
networked society
Chat GPT changes everything (and some of it is bad)
The world has been on the brink of revolutionary technological change for a while now and Chat GPT and related generative AI technologies might just have tipped us over into…
What will change the world? Welcome to the hive mind of Twitter.
One of the things I love about Twitter is the way it enables serendipity on a grand scale. Recently, I can’t remember how, I ran across @blogbrevity (a.k.a Angela Dunn)…
What’s the big idea with social media? #media140
I was lucky enough to be invited to Media 140 in Perth recently to discuss what the ‘big idea’ is with social media. The idea was for a context setting…
Connectedness – it’s not just a technology thing, it’s a people thing
For many years now my friends, colleagues and I have been talking and thinking about the hyperconnections made available to us by the growth of the internet, telecommunications devices and…
The growth of the recommendation economy
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…
2012: Not the end of the world, but perhaps the end of the world as we know it
As we come up to the year 2012 many prognosticators are predicting the end of the world. I suspect that this will not come to pass. But I do think…
Welcome to the panopticon
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…
Social media, radical transparency, insights, and klout
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…
The business of social business
Social business is the new trend following on from Enterprise 2.0 – but underlying it is an essential conflict between two different styles of doing business. The conflict is between…