“I figure lots of predictions is best. People will forget the ones I get wrong and marvel over the rest.” ~ Alan Cox
With a few basic top-level predictions earlier this week – namely brands beginning to better understand social ROI, integration of shopping functionality into social channels, and web 3.0 and the semantic web doing our discovery and [...]
“The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears.” ~ Bill Vaughan
It’s that time of year again when we have to dig out our crystal balls and do the obligatory blogging of predictions for next year. As a futurist, here’s a few top-level guesses based on the technology, trends, and [...]
The tools may have changed, but the song remains the same.
The Web is now personal. VERY personal. Everyone is a content producer, whether they realize it or not.
Google realizes this. Google’s deal with Twitter has run out so it no longer has Twitter content in its search, and Facebook is giving content to [...]
If you’re paying attention (and maybe a little obsessive like the folks here at Conversify), you may have noticed that Facebook filters your news feed into either “Top News” or “Most Recent” posts. Because you’re clever, you’ve probably already asked why this happens and how you can get your posts to the top [...]
A lot of users complain that they can’t keep up with Facebook and its constant tweaks, modifications, and changes. On the back-end, for business, things are moving all the time and it’s a full time job to stay abreast of what happening. Over the years I’ve developed something of a Taoist attitude to social networks. [...]
When I worked on Wall Street, the dividing line between my personal life and my professional one was dark and bold. Like many people, the reasons for such a dark line were concerns around judgment and perception. Would I be taken seriously if my coworkers knew I relished playing Dungeons & Dragons on the weekends?
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A good chunk of my career has focused on the cultural habits that lend toward adoption of technology. My latest conundrum is Google+’s Circles, which allows (requires?) you to sort your contacts into a series of Circles you create.
We sort people and things. It’s in our nature as humans. Technologically [...]
