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Archive for July, 2008

29 Jul

A Little Traveling Music?

Theodore Geisel is one of the most influential post-war American writers.
He is the nuance…
Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
Congratulations!
Today is your day.
You’re off to Great Places!
You’re off and away!

25 Jul

China Passes US in Internet Usage

It’s hard to miss this on the web toda — China has more Internet users than America.
AP reports:
The research firm BDA China Ltd. says China’s online population should keep growing by 18 percent annually, reaching 490 million by 2012 — a number larger than the entire U.S. population.
And continues with interesting business context:
Total revenues for [...]

18 Jul

Mapping The Social Brain

As a base to the acid of web 2.0 tools, their blogs, tweets (twits?), Duncan Work’s blog — 100 Trillion Connections — is an interesting balance.
Recently, Duncan posted some of his thoughts on the connection between the important work being done in mapping the human brain, and it’s implications for the social brain.
His conclusion?
… mapping [...]

16 Jul

Watching the Media Wave Break

Spent Monday afternoon at the New Media Summit, hosted by Metzger and Associates.
The audience was largely PR and communications professionals — people whose bosses, clients and clients’ clients are frequently turning towards to answer the ever-maddening questions about how to deploy new technologies, what social networking, mobile applications and new media in general is all [...]

11 Jul

In The Moodstream?

Getty Images, “the man” of the photo world, just launched a service called Moodstream.
Basically, it creates a slideshow of their images based on your input across five ranges of moods.  Complete with music, it provides something that might be nice background at parties, or could double as a screen-saver replacement.
I got the tip on this [...]

10 Jul

The Latest Social Network Valuations

It’s a never-ending sport.  With some drastic implications.
There’s ample evidence that the social networks are nothing more that the dot.com bubble revisited.  At the same time, big time players are putting heavy bets down that there’s a pot of gold out there somewhere.  So what are social networks really worth?
MIT’s Technology Review, in my opinion, [...]

07 Jul

Irrational Economics

I’ve had a 20-year love-hate relationship with McKinsey.  When I was in my late teens, before I knew much about business, I thought I really wanted to do this kind of high-level consulting.  Then I developed a heavy aversion to strategic corporate thinking, especially corporate consultants.  But there are still really smart people there, and [...]

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