The word meme signifies essentially what Seth Godin calls an “idea virus”. It is something that spreads a concept – FAST. We love the mash concept here at Perceptric. We have talked here about music mashing – like the George Bush/Imagine mash. And we have talked about brand mashing too…. But word mash-ups have tremendous [...]

People overestimate the impact of  new things in the short term and underestimate their impact in the long term. We live by this motto. A few days talking to non tech people about “things” including business confirms the adage. “What's a blog, again?”, “I don't use email”, “Well, I still like to read newspapers”, “I don't [...]

Rather than reflecting on what has been over the last year, I figure it is time to get down to some predictions for what is about to come: Here are a few…. The real estate market in the US will pop. There will be another tech boom. The Chinese will continue to buy US debt. [...]

I had a meeting with Cameron Reilly yesterday – of The Podcast Network. He is quite a visionary and a really nice guy to boot. He has the focus that could make TPN a real success. He explained the business model to me. It is pretty much what the early music business publishing model is. [...]

Stayed in Melbourne for a few days at the Saville City Suites. Service suites and what seemed like a good price from lastminute.com. There were two problems. One was that the pillows were uncomfortable. Two was that the place didn't have broadband! I spend over 100 roomnights a year on the road, in the US [...]

Its not just online businesses that are hot. Almost any business can be hot if it is positioned right. I have just spent Christmas with my brother-in-law and his family. They have had a beauty salon business for about ten years. Now they have just opened a Waxing Salon. It is a really good business [...]

No internet connection cuts off a main artery of life. On a short holiday a variety of computers broke down, the internet connection blew up, or just, whatever. Suddenly there went the knowledge, the connectedness, the information of usual daily life. We are in the world of the information haves and have nots. Cut yourself off from [...]

Early adopters loved Skype. Now their friends  and relatives are starting to buy in. In a range of different homes across two continents, a number of states, and various businesses over the last week; mothers, girlfriends, business associates, are all getting eyeball cameras, (memo, buy Logitech stock) microphones, and setting themselves up for videoconferencing and the [...]

Speed means something. Before Christmas, Verizon upgraded one Perceptric DSL connection to 3000kbps from 1500 kbps. Even that was a sharp change, and a world away from an AOL dialup. Speed builds up the internet connected experience. This matters. In Australia, the government telco, Telstra, has been slow to build out broadband, has priced it expensively and [...]

Bucky balls are just one of the nanotechnologies which are in the process of being deployed. The US is making multi-billion dollar investments this new, new tech which is intended drive a wave of growth the global economy estimated to be worth trillions over the next ten years. Perhaps, it might be worth reflecting on the implications, in this time outside the business helter-skelter

Bucky balls have a huge surface area compared to their volume, so they are highly reactive in a chemical sense — they readily glom onto almost anything nearby. Scientists have been hoping that bucky balls could be coated with medicines and injected into sick people to deliver specific remedies to specific parts of the body.