Clik here to view.
Do You Think Outside the Box?
The admonition to “Think Outside the Box” presupposes two distinct things: First that we are capable of working beyond the everyday parameters of the activity we call “Thinking” and second that there...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Understand How Marketing Has Changed
The words ‘Marketing’ and ‘Change’ seem to go together the way ‘Britain’ and ‘Rain’ do (or Bacon & eggs for the foodies out there). Marketing is never quite the same from one month to the next,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Why Mobile Payments Are Not Taking Off
With Google Glass just around the corner, wi-fi connectivity practically everywhere, 4G mobile connections and voice powered semantic search, you’d think that having to take out crumpled pieces of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Real Impact of Search
Search is the way we navigate the web. The ability of search engines to organize over 30 trillion pages of information essentially shapes the web, creating a sense of structure out of the seeming chaos...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Nailing Your Presentation
The challenge of any presentation lies in the choices you will make of what to present and how. A presentation is always a stage with you as the main prop. If you bear this in mind you will then avoid...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Why Companies Kill Great Products
Given the outcry that Google’s decision to kill Google Reader has caused amidst the devoted online tech community you can be forgiven for thinking that Larry Page does nothing else each day than pace...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Promise of Wearable Computers
Over a short four month period, between December 2011 and April last year, I wrote two pieces on wearable tech that in retrospect look pretty prophetic. The problem I am facing right now is that having...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How to Get What You Want Just by Asking
“Ask and you shall receive” (Matthew 21:22) may be Biblical but social media is proving that it is far from a dying art form. As a matter of fact so many wishes seem to just come true on the web that...
View ArticleClik here to view.
EA Wins on Social Media Hate
In 2011 BP became responsible for the biggest oil spill in the history of the planet and in 2012 the Bank of America revamped its fees structure seemingly charging its loyal customers for the pleasure...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Social Media Morality Debate
Social media does not only create the kind of radical transparency that makes seasoned politicians run for cover and bank CEOs wish for the pre-internet days to return, it also brings uncomfortable...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Make Your Dream Come True Online
We live in the connected age of the knowledge economy. Even street sweepers are brain workers requiring no fewer than 30 hours of training in order to learn how to operate correctly the complex...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Ethics of the Social Web
Tragedies have a way of magnifying everything. The very best and the very worst of us has surfaced during times of extreme need and extreme emotion and the Boston bombing was no exception.
View ArticleClik here to view.
Case Study: The Social Media Experiment
Imagine that you can’t connect to Google+, or Facebook, or Twitter for four weeks. How would you feel? For someone who gets jittery when I lose my connection for a couple of hours I have no idea how I...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Social Media Message of Ender’s Game
In 1985 when Ender’s Game was first published the world was a different place. We were each locked into the confines of our own skulls, our thoughts entirely our own, our opinions and ideas shared only...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Oppa Gangnam Style Mr Hughes
In the digital world there is no action without a reaction, no cause without effect. It is a truly fractal world where chaos dynamics (popularly known as the Butterfly Effect) are the norm.
View ArticleClik here to view.
How Social Media Creates Radical Transparency
Social media tools like Twitter, Facebook and Google+ are the instruments which, in a hyperconnected world, create a reality that is independent of the perceived, managed and projected image most...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Concept of Symmetry in a Social Network Setting
Every time we interact online we enter into a relational exchange. Whether we part with time, money or information we end up giving something and taking something back. In a straightforward commercial...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How Virtual Games Improve Our Reality
“The real world just doesn’t offer up as easily the carefully designed pleasures, the thrilling challenges, and the powerful social bonding afforded by virtual environments. Reality doesn’t motivate us...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How Cronuts Beat The Web
They say art imitates life but the truth is that life more often than not imitates art only one better. Locked in a self-imposed silo of academic research as a I was writing my book on semantic search...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Semantics, Context and Personalisation
If you’re feeling a quickening every time you look at the web. If you sense new opportunities but can’t quite put your finger on what they are. If there is a feeling that things are changing but you’re...
View Article
