'Business' Category
Pubs, BBC Radio 4 iPM and the Future of Facebook
I’ve always thought that social networking sites will turn out to be like pubs: rising in popularity, going out of fashion and then being reinvented. On this basis, planning future development on the basis of Facebook’s inevitable rise does not seem prudent - strategically, this is an important issue - even before the Beacon fiasco […]
Mobile Social Networking at Hillington
The Wireless Innovation Centre at Hillington, a key hub drawing together the disparate wireless scene in Scotland, hosted a mobile social networking event the Friday before last. The centre’s technology manager Alisdair Gunn kicked the day off by installing Andy Campbell (”Chief Networker” and CEO of Specialmove) as compere. Andy, well known in the […]
Barcamp Leeds 2007
The weekend before last I travelled down from Dundee to Barcamp Leeds 2007 with my colleague Rick Moynihan. From the outset Old Broadcasting House, a tastefully refurbished pristine innovation centre, was humming with a sense of energy and anticipation. It didn’t disappoint - with the exception of those who couldn’t […]
A Week of Inspiration (that was last week)
To be entirely honest, not being an enthusiastic meeting hound, I often attend events out of duty rather than desire, coming away from events bored and frustrated: stupified rather than inspired. But last week I had the privilege to attend two genuinely inspirational events: the BBC’s Innovation Labs launch day in […]
The 7th Mass Media, SIMs and Individuality
It’s been interesting to watch the reaction to Tomi Ahonen’s Mobile the 7th Mass Media post. You either like Tomi’s brash style and bold claims or you don’t. I do. Even if he goes too far, the blog and the book are powerful antidotes to a pervading cloud of negative sentiment - often unsupported […]
Telco 2.0 Survey, strategy and von Clausewitz book
As a rule I shun surveys whether by phone, web or snail mail. Frankly, most are just too boring to contemplate without the incentive of a large carrot - deadpan deliveries of irrelevant questions, crappy ASP programs that crash before the end and letters from researchers who think people have got nothing else to do.
However […]Web 2.0, the Economies of Culture and Machiavellian Chimps
I first came across Machiavellian Intelligence and Chimpanzees over morning coffee in the staff common room of the St Andrews University School of Psychology. I should quickly clarify that there were no chimps present, the academic politics at St Andrews was no more vicious than at any other University and no animals have […]
von Clausewitz, openness, Web 2.0 and War 2.0
Leaving aside the frequent appropriation of language, it’s not hard to establish a practical and theoretical link between business, war and politics: Karl von Clausewitz, a Prussian military strategist who aimed to teach clear strategic thinking, is often quoted as describing war as an extension of diplomacy. He also said that war […]