Today we present a point of view that will offend many, please few, but will attempt balance the mainly conservative viewpoints and opinions that Perceptric strives for. “Conservative? Hah!” I can hear from the peanut gallery. “Conservative my arse! Koltai you’re nothing but a leftwing Bolshevist commie agitator.” Thank-you. You are right on [...]
Errata: It's been pointed out to me that Facebook just passed the three hundred million user mark and not the four hundred million. – Which obviously indicates early signs of dementia perhaps, on my part. – Hat-tip to David Goldstein from Link. Facebook has done more for détente and political stability than any other single [...]
Yesterday I talked about President Obama, Prime Minister Kevin (Rudd) and Internet users in general liking “it”. Today I though I would try to explain the difference by no clue – or a lack of “it” and lots of clue (mojo), eyeballs, attention – or a surplus of “it”. To understand “it”, open [...]
I guess the new star of the Internet, Zynga has started looking for M&A’s. Not that they want to be taken out yet. Fig 1. Farmville User Numbers daily growth through August. – Source – Facebook. User numbers were doubling every two weeks – although have slowed recently mainly due to transaction (caps) [...]
The other day, Chris blogged about a new form of grey marketing. Blitzkrieg Cinema. Blitzkreig marketing is to commit all of your troops, with an in-place supply chain to ensure that the troops have a steady stream of ammunition (in this instance Movies from America). And it seems to be paying off for [...]
Chris Gilbey, my business partner at Perceptric, after 30 years in the music business continues to amaze me with his anecdotal stories of how up and coming artists “made it”. I have learnt a lot listening to Chris over the past few years. However, today I saw a new method of artist promotion. Twitter [...]
Thanks, Chris, for the introduction! As reader well know, there's a lot of noise in the P2P scene at present, especially following the recent Pirate Bay case in Sweden. http://www.p2pnet.net/story/20434http://google.com/trends?q=pirate+bayhttp://thepiratebay.org/blog.php The legal muscle is coming from the US, which is the largest producer of media content in the world. So how does this sector compare [...]
Academics are really important to the commercial sector. Their visions for how the future is going to unfold drives inventions and innovation. A huge part of the R&D that finds its way into the general marketplace has its initial genesis in the labs of the universities around the world. Similarly the ideas that shape the [...]
John is a good friend from Los Angeles, who voted for Obama in the recent Presidential election. He sent this to me earlier today. I thought it was too good to not share and John has agreed for me to publish it here. Seems to sum up so much how quickly the honeymoon can end [...]
Comparing Human Synapse activity with Internet activity shows surprising similarity Picture if you will, the human brain – powered by electrical synapses, driving complicated biological based circuitry often triggered by external stimuli (smells, pictures, texture). Neurons, or nerve cells, each have a pair of projections—the axon and the dendrite, which transmit and receive impulses, [...]