Posts tagged "Trends"

Inside the connected car

Very interesting assessment of in-car technology with some quotable predictions from Intel, eg: By next year the car will be the third most-connected place in which people spend time. By 2016, how connected a car is will be a critical buying decision. In the future, if car ownership declines but increased use is still needed,...

CEO reputation paramount in the see-thru world

What role does the reputation of a company’s chief executive play in the reputation of his or her company and, thus, the likely business success or failure of that company? It’s a crucial question that draws some fascinating answers in the results of new research conducted by PR firm Weber Shandwick. The second installment of...

Virgin Media blocks access to Pirate Bay

Reading the Guardian’s report that Virgin Media started blocking access to Pirate Bay from yesterday in accordance with a court order in the UK requiring that action, I checked access (I’m a Virgin Media customer): it is indeed blocked. More info from Virgin on why they sometimes do block access to certain websites: http://www.virginmedia.com/siteblocking Is...

Re-imagining the mobile value proposition

GigaOm reports on trends in data use on mobile devices, citing research from Akamai and from Chetan Sharma that shows that demand for mobile broadband is continuing to grow unabated. We are using more mobile data in more places, says GigaOm, and this is going to keep changing how we live, work, create and consume....

How to report Twitter hashtag spammers

One of the most useful features of Twitter for events like conferences and tweet chats is the hashtag. A hashtag – a keyword preceded by the ‘#’ symbol – enables conference-goers, the event organizer and anyone else interested in the event to see all tweets that include the hashtag. It enables anyone to listen to...

Twitter can’t be gagged, even in France

The first round in the French presidential election ended yesterday with the result that Socialist Party challenger François Hollande narrowly edged in front of incumbent President Nicolas Sarkozy by the slim margin of just over 1 percent of the vote. Both men will compete in a second round run-off, due to be held on May...

10 Trends to Beat Digital Darwinism

The digital landscape continues to undergo a significant shift that will have profound effects on business this year. The challenge is that hardly any business leaders noticed. That’s not their fault however. Even through the impact of technology on business and consumer behavior was widely reported, in depth reports on what to do next or...

Engagement methodology evolved

You hear often about mainstream media publishers designing a digital version of a print publication for mobile devices such as the iPad. Turn that idea the other way around – via PaidContent UK, here’s what Hearst UK is doing with the relaunch of their quarterly Good Ideas magazine: “[...] Good Ideas has been especially designed...

It’s a Small World After All: The Top Global Web Trends

Social media is a global phenomenon indeed. Certainly Facebook, Twitter, Google+, in their own way, each make the world a much smaller place. The distance between any two people is shrinking as the number of network connections continues to proliferate. I’m sure you’ve heard at one point or another, that the distance between two people...

Website backups: 4 ways to protect your investment

Your website is the culmination of many years hard work and toil. You’ve invested time and money in building and promoting your site. And the site is your store front on the internet. But imagine if, overnight or almost instantaneously, all of this goes to waste and your website data is lost? Unfortunately I see...

Survival of the Fitting: 10 important trends to survive Digital Darwinism

Digital Darwinism is a phenomenon when technology and society evolve faster than the ability to adapt. And, it threatens rigid and traditional practices everywhere. It’s no longer just survival of the fittest, but also survival of the fitting.  Businesses must earn relevance and to do so requires much more than adoption of the latest technologies...

Realities of the digital landscape illustrated in Eurocom survey

One of the startling metrics in a global survey on how technology businesses use social media is one that shows one in five technology industry executives  – that’s 20 percent of those surveyed – saying that a job candidate’s social media profile has caused them not to hire that person. This metric reinforces the reality...