January 12th 2011
Like politics, strategy is the art of the possible. And as strategy pursues corporate goals, it has to navigate the pecularities of the organization while marshalling its assets. In this video, I share some thoughts on the FutureM conference on the Future of Digital Strategy, as well as some words from Harvard’s Perry Hewitt, who […]
December 7th 2010
Would you be reluctant participate in a social network that provides backdoor access to a foreign intelligence agency? Consider that the rest of the world already is, and that every government is asking for just such access to services running in their jurisdictions. Nationalism brings a whole new gravitas to personal privacy, and foreign debt.
November 2nd 2010
Huge thanks to everyone at the Online Marketing Summit and ClickZ for convening today’s all day conference on social media. I’m hoping to see lots of you in February for their annual digital marketing extravaganza in February, where I’ll be talking about Web3.0: The Wave That Follows Social Media. Slides from the session are posted […]
October 28th 2010
Audience Platforms Emerge as the New Networks We are now among 2 billion people on the Internet. Have you noticed that we’re increasingly spending the bulk of our time on an ever-smaller handful of hub websites? According to data from Compete in 2001, 30 percent of all Internet traffic went to the top 10 visited […]
September 25th 2010
Scott Brinker and I want to thank everyone who brought their ideas and interest in to this morning’s discussion on Web3.0: The Wave the Follows Social Media. Its a pleasure to have a community where you can discuss emerging topics, and get group brain power to make sense of new topics. Our slide deck is […]
September 21st 2010
This Saturday at 10AM Scott Brinker and I are hosting a discussion at Podcamp Boston on Web 3.0: The Wave that Follows Social. Scott hosts the Chief Marketing Technologist Blog, and is founder and CTO of ION Interactive. His firm provides a suite of services that helps optimize search and Web experiences, which benefits both […]
August 24th 2010
Since 2007 I’ve been noting a set of changes that collectively are changing the foundations of communications on the Web in ways that are more far-reaching than what we refer to as Web 2.0. These include: Highly interactive application experiences that don’t use browsers Decentralized web and email communications – branding and 1:1 messages are […]
April 20th 2010
In the cloud, nobody can tell if you’re a web page. In talking with people about the post The Siteless Web and the End of Brand Website Rule: Web 3.0, I found myself suggesting that online visitors will encounter us through three types of experiences: Sites we control: traditional, publishing-based information distribution. Sites others control: […]
April 15th 2010
Online changes seem to happen quickly, but their beginnings are often apparent years in advance. And legal factors provide signals to business about the stability of these new systems. This is an idea I hope we can start to discuss in all the places we talk about the future of the Web. It is from […]
November 20th 2009
Litl Computer is to netbooks as iPods were to MP3 players. The beauty of the iPod was that it was designed to fit people’s worlds. It fit physically and it conceptually allowed users to find and get music from the web without being transfixed by technology. Imagine a laptop built from its roots to be an easy, […]
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