Digital technology empowers and it destroys. As the legacy silos entrench themselves and become more polar in their approach the silos start to crumble. It happens in business and more of that later. As is incredibly visible right now, it happens in politics. Sometimes those silos are not really about the leader or the policy [...]
While the media is all doom and gloom, for some there is boundless optimism. I have been asked to do several pitches in the last two weeks, two to companies that are expanding into new areas and want to make sure that they capture all the market potential that they see, and one to a [...]
Yesterday was a busy day… in fact the whole week was crazy when I come to think about it. But yesterday more than most days… In the morning I attended an event to mark 50 years of friendship between Korea and Australia. (I was there as the proxy for Professor Gordon Wallace from ACES where [...]
Over the last few weeks, perhaps a month, I have noticed Face Book morphing into something that is quite interesting… There are a number of quite distinct groups of people that seem to form the community, well my community anyway. This observation is based on the News Feed feature… The largest grouping of users (friends) [...]
At Uni, I read Economics. With Social Networking being such a large part of current online lives, I wish I had also read for a degree in Sociology or at least Anthropology. Economists are rapidly becoming irrelevant as the mainstays of popular thinking on the correct way to run an economy. There are [...]
The Disagreement about Blogs There are two point two new Blog sites created for every second of every day of the year. (around 175,000 per day.) The blogosphere doubles every 236 days! Presently, there are around 77 million blogs,It has been predicted that within three years, 50% of all content online will be user-generated. [...]
One of my Facebook based Farmville neighbours is only 9 years old. She’s located in an ex-soviet bloc country in Europe and she likes to use me for English practice. I reply in monosyllabic polite manner to her simple questions about what is Australia like and today’s weather forecast. No-one obviously has told her [...]
When I first signed up for a Facebook page – about 2005, I did not quite “Grok” Facebook. Why would a user want to say what they were eating for breakfast? Better yet, who the hell would be interested? I didn’t understand the sheep meme. Look at me – I can do this, you [...]
All over the world, bankers, economists and Governments are watching the growth of Facebook with envy.Imaging getting a hundred million new customers between April and September. Wow. Pretty good stuff. Wouldnt it be great if we could grow the the country's economy the same way. Well – the good news is – there is a [...]
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. In Australia, the formation of a credit union can be organised with 500 [...]