May 2013
13 posts
“I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the...”
– John Cage
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Is Content the New Currency?
Think money is our main currency in business? Think again…
There’s a lot of talk these days about currency. The Euro, the Dollar, Bitcoin. As a result of all this discussion it makes currency an interesting topic when it comes to the social web. What exactly is the dominant currency in this day and age? Is it still money? Does money allow for a brand to buy trust? Or is it one’s digital footprint?...
Disruptive Innovation FM - Moore's Law
“Is a social network without integrated analytics like a vehicle without a safety...”
– Social media hit a low with the Boston Marathon witchhunt, says blogger Eric Schartzman. Analytics, he argues, needs to be embedded in big data.
Via briansolis.com |Without Analytics,Big Data is Just Noise
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“… the socialization of boys regarding masculinity is often at the expense of...”
– Don McPherson, former NFL quarterback, feminist and educator (via seraphmachine)
There’s not much wrong with the world that can’t be explained by this.
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April 2013
7 posts
Disruptive Innovation FM - Birthday
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Disruptive Innovation FM - Bitcoin
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“A central component of Tumblr is visual content, which also plays well with...”
– Dr. Scott Hendrickson, data scientist at Gnip | No Comment: Using Tumblr to Tell Your Brand Story - Dachis Group (via courtenaybird)
Now that the visual social web has taken hold, what’s next? My prediction is audio will become big once again based on platforms like Soundcloud, Spreaker,...
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“The turn of the new millennium is when the automation of middle-class...”
– How the internet is making us poor – Quartz (via infoneer-pulse)
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March 2013
17 posts
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“Understand the social network not as your new water cooler, but as your new...”
– IBM (cl) CEO Ginni Rommety in her speech to the Council on Foreign Relations
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WatchDisruptive Innovation FM - $1 Pizza. How is $1 a slice pizza in NY a sign of disruptive innovation?
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Public Cloud Services to Grow to $131B by 2017 →
emergentfutures:
The public cloud services market is forecast to grow 18.5 percent in 2013 to total $131 billion worldwide by 2017. This is an increase from $111 billion in 2012, according to a recent Gartner report. Infrastructure as a service (IaaS),
including cloud computing, cloud based storage and print services, are seen as the fastest-growing segment of the market. They are projected to...
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2013: The Seeds of a Shift Toward "Postdigital"
It is important to understand art because art imitates life. Many who follow art are bound to understand how the technological world we live in is shaping our understanding of reality as we have perceived it. The definition is the following:
Postdigital is a term which has recently come into use in the discourse of digital artistic practice. This term points significantly to our rapidly changed...
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WatchA future vision of 2017 advertising as seen from 1967…
Disruptive Innovation FM - Rise Above
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WatchIs the advertising agency model busted?
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Stowe Boyd: Tech Writers Surprised At Facebook... →
stoweboyd:
I confess that I was surprised to read Nick Bilton’s piece the other day, where he finally realized that Facebook’s EdgeRank is siphoning off his followers as part of an ‘advertising’ model that is more like a Mafia shakedown than advertising. Other tech writers (Anthony De Rosa, Felix Salmon)…
Good to see Stowe Boyd bringing up something I wrote about last September that made...
Report: "By The End of 2013, There Will Be More... →
nasdaq:
That’s what this Mashable article tells us, with some pretty staggering numbers about how quickly mobile tablets and mobile data usage have risen over just the past year.
February 2013
26 posts
Disruptive Innovation FM - Latch
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Why Big Companies Hate Innovation
The entrepreunerial or “start-up” economy is growing and starting to take down “too big to fail” companies in its path. But how? Aren’t those big companies set up with internal innovation labs of their own? All companies spend money on R&D right? Why do big companies dislike innovation?
The issue is that innovation for big companies usually occurs as a reaction...
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Real Time Marketing: Five Ways to Improve #RTM
Coming off the success of some brands at the Superbowl, several are now trying to capitalize on big cultural events by creating content in which they can interject themselves into the real-time zeitgeist. The advertising/marketing/PR world has dubbed this as “Real Time Marketing” or RTM for short (everything needs an acronym in order to sell it as a service). You can check out some of...
Disruptive Innovation FM - Harlem Shake
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If #Analytics Were Used for Personal Decisions:...
So today, United States Men’s National Soccer Team player and former MLS’er Robbie Rogers announced this. To many this isn’t a big deal. It is 2013 after all and gay rights is the Civil Rights of our generation. Everyone knows a friend or family member who is gay. But in professional men’s sports, there isn’t one athlete who has ever played while being open and honest...
