The video is Carnegie Mellon University Professor, games developer and former Disney imagineer Jesse Schell on the surprise success of the likes of Farmville, Webkinz, Club Penguin, Wii Fit and X-Box Achievements. All of these are concepts that must have sounded insane on paper when they were proposed three-or-four years ago and then went on [...]
February 21, 2010
Like many of you, I expect, I watched the latest instalment of the BBC’s Virtual Revolution on Saturday. The theme this week was the ways in which the Web is changing the ways we think. As has often been observed, people who use the Web on a regular basis are more apt to skim, read [...]
February 8, 2010
While the UK slept last night, it appears there was some sort of sporting tournament across the Atlantic and that the world’s most-used search provider advertised its search capabilities and new(ish) browser. It’s quite a nice advert, telling a (cliched) story in an original manner with a clean style. The excitement over Google advertising Chrome and [...]
February 1, 2010
You’ll have seen this word flying about recently and it’s time for some explanations. Err… don’t you mean ‘publically’? ['publicly' if you're American] No. Well, in some ways, yes, I do. Let me explain. In the past, there has been an assumption that privacy was the default state of human existence. It was only when you, someone or [...]
January 19, 2010
The Predictive Web | Brian Solis Social Media becomes less about a move-and-react strategy and sets the stage for engendering meaningful interactions as well as building more tuned business infrastructures to support anticipated activity based on the intelligence and insight extracted from online behavior. (tags: predictions predictive intentions socialweb,) Why Twitter Will Endure – NYTimes.com Twitter is looking more [...]
January 18, 2010
In this online radio interview, internet visionary Jaron Lanier talks about the danger of Web 2.0 turning us into a collectivist digital mush. He’s got a new book out, so doing a lot of PAs lately. The problems, to paraphrase, are these: Collectivisation We’ve reached for the wisdom of crowds, and this silences individual voices. This blog [...]
January 14, 2010
Late December and early January see the seasonal appearance of a popular type of blog post: ‘My Predictions for [Next Year]’. They’re a great stock-in-trade because you can say whatever you like and nobody can prove you wrong until the end of the following year, by which time everyone’s forgotten. I’ve written a couple in [...]
December 14, 2009
Or is it the ‘buzz-monitoring bonnet’ as someone suggested? Poor sod. via ffffound.com
December 4, 2009
I mentioned this a couple of posts back. Delete discusses ‘The Virtues of Forgetting in the Digital Age’. Unfortunately, I couldn’t attend but the RSA has – as always – made the audio of the talk available to everyone. See the link below for details. Google remembers everything we’ve searched for and when. Potentially humiliating content [...]
December 4, 2009
via youtube.com Ermm… haven’t I seen this somewhere before? Say in about 2002? Nobody bought Tablet PCs then, either. Posted via web from iandelaney’s posterous
December 3, 2009
Found this, which confirms some of my malcontent: More access to information doesn’t bring people together, often it isolates us. Elizabeth Kolbert has a piece in this week’s New Yorker reviewing Cass Sunstein’s new book, “On Rumors: How Falsehoods Spread, Why We Believe Them, What Can Be Done.” In the review she lays out the concept of [...]
November 30, 2009
42.6% of respondents say they feel less inhibited interacting online than face-to-face. 20% say they lashed out at companies or products thanks to the anonymity of online interaction. 31.5% say that online interaction let them do something they’d been wanting to do. via marketingcharts.com Research from Euro RSCG suggests (as you’d have guessed) that people [...]
March 4, 2010