“Diaspora isn’t about killing Facebook or Google+,” the people behind the new social media project claim on their newly opened wall, “it’s about reinventing the social web“. I was very lucky to be granted access to Diaspora, in alpha version,…
What is neuromarketing? There is at least one post on the Internet which is not debating how Facebook will change the world and I have found it! I will need to get back to this soon, as it seems that marketers…
2011 Worldwide Mobile OS market share comparison. There are several ways of looking at the market share comparison map by iCrossing. One is to highlight that Apple now has gone over the 50% market share mark in many countries (per…
Microsoft is trying to kill the good ol’ PC once again, but it might not work. As Erik Sherman demonstrates in his piece on the death of the PC. After all, as the late Mark Weiser (the true inventor of tablets)…
China will be the World’s next Internet giant!
Which Internet company generates the greatest number of micro transactions for virtual goods on a daily basis? If they were asked this question, most of our Western readers would undoubtedly mention Google, or Facebook and they would be wrong. In this piece, I will explain why China is virtually the only country that is able to compete with the United States of America with regard to the growth of its Internet industry.
Startups Don’t Need Marketing … Or Maybe Later. Is a piece by Fred Wilson, an NYC Venture Capitalist, about why Marketing isn’t what a startup needs when its initiative is kick-started. Startups need intuition, hunches, “segmentuition” as I often say,…
The new shopping cart is here, at last. In this interesting story, Yannig Roth provides a follow up to the early developments of new style shopping carts as was described in a famous 1998 IDEO video. New shopping cart being…
I will soon unveil the title of my new social media book. I have been invited by Eve Mayer Osburn (aka Linkedin Queen) and Mary B. Adams for a chat at Blogtalkradio. Here’s an introductory video to the show (due to…
Helping employees better perform should be the focus of managers. Despite the fact that his flight was not able to take him further than New York and let alone Munich, Fons Trompenars was brought live from New York by Orange…
Aisis will be driving growth in emerging markets, Adrian Ho from IDC declared during his “new technologies & future priorities for IT departments” presentation. He was replacing Sandra Ng who unfortunately couldn’t attend that meeting. IDC: 70% of future growth…
The Workspace of the future, an industry analyst perspective In his introduction, Michael Burrell from Orange Business Services described some of the main market trends include: Consumerization of IT, tuning the way that IT is working on its head. The…
What’s the state of the global economy? Daniel Thorniley (left) runs his own private business consultancy, but in his own words, he is not a “loser”. He has 235 Corporate clients even though he is on his own. He was…
