A lot of talk is done around viral marketing, and a lot of hot air too. The most recent example for me was a senior marketing executive (who will remain nameless) who said “we just don’t have the money to do something viral”. This was so badly off the mark that I had to just… [Read more…]
October 18, 2007
I got a notice in my inbox today that Chumby Industries are finally (after what seems a loooong time) beginning to ship the first Chumbies to early adopters. I tried very hard last year with a series of increasingly sycophantic emails to Chumby to secure myself an beta model, and failed dismally, but at least… [Read more…]
October 12, 2007
There’s an interesting post over on the conference.archimuse.com blog where Jennifer reports that research they’ve been undertaking on the use of the steve.museum tagger shows that greater than 75% of all new tags given to images in the experiment weren’t words originally associated with the image by museum staff when cataloguing. That’s a pretty extraordinary… [Read more…]
October 9, 2007
One of the fears which cloud computing – or any hosted application – brings out in museum and other IT professionals is that your up-time becomes reliant on services over which you have no control. I’ve always argued that although this is a real fear, it’s infinitely more likely that the ropy single machine you’ve… [Read more…]
October 8, 2007
I said on a previous post that I’d write more about Simon Wardley’s excellent presentation at the Future of Web Apps conference. He’s now put the presentation on Slideshare but warns (and he’s right) that it’s not an easy one to digest without the audio. Apparently FOWA are going to be publishing the sound for… [Read more…]
October 4, 2007
Yahoo Fire Eagle… Arrived 5 minutes late for this one…but I believe that Fire Eagle is something to do with location based services… Some examples of what you could build: - Twitter maps - Geotagging all user generated content - Phone based applications for event coordination - Proximiser. Look busy when your boss gets close… [Read more…]
October 4, 2007
It’s Eric Rodenbeck from an agency called Stamen next, talking about visualising data.. Visualisation isn’t a technology but a medium. Stamen are concerned with how these visualisations can affect emotions. He’s showing a slide of colours for voting in the last US elections and demonstrating how this can be broken down into more detail, or… [Read more…]
October 4, 2007
Next is John Aizen and Eran Shir from Dapper to talk about transforming the existing web into the semantic web. Generally most have come to agree that the semantic web vision has failed. Why? Because there is a considerable effort required to ‘semantify’ the web and almost noone has spent the money. RSS and API’s… [Read more…]
October 4, 2007
Simon Wardley gave an extremely interesting talk (easily the best thing I’ve seen so far at FOWA) about utility computing. And ducks. I wrote 4 pages of notes and there’s no way I can do the talk justice on here without getting bleeding thumbs, so I’ll write a whole separate post later…
October 4, 2007
Next up is Dave Morin who’ll hopefully be saying something interesting about Facebook Platform… 43 million active users, doubling every month. Very international – half users outside the US. 50% of users return daily. Social Graph: about sharing as much information as you can with as many ppl as you can. Photos: more traffic than… [Read more…]
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