Month: April 2012
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‘Running Between The Toes Of Giants’
The reams of Facestagram coverage threw up a couple of interesting metaphors which I really liked. Nicholas Carlson's recent piece on Business Insider uses the phrase quoted here in the title to describe the fine line for entrepreneurs (particularly those with a disruptive product or service) between successfully changing the dynamics of a market and being trampled on…
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Google Firestarters 5: Cory Doctorow
So, exciting news. For the fifth in the series of Google Firestarters events for planners and digital media folk we are lucky enough to have Cory Doctorow, the renowned science fiction novelist, journalist, technology activist, and co-editor of Boing Boing. Given the increasing ubiquity of digital technologies, their integration into just about every device, and…
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Wirewax – Interview With Dan Garraway
Dan Garraway is a technologist, creative, and the co-founder of (IMO) one of the most interesting pieces of digital video technology out there: WireWax. I first met Dan and his co-founder a couple of years ago when, as a young startup, they got in touch to show me their technology that enables you to add…
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The Progression Of Agency Value
Over the past few months I've been working with the smart folk at Econsultancy on a project (in partnership with Adobe) to better understand the impact of digital technologies on agencies. A big reason for doing this is that, inspite of there being much chatter in the blogosphere on the future of agencies and the…
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Google Firestarters For Search
You'll know that I've been working with Google for over a year now, curating a series of events themed around stimulating some different thinking and debate on some of the more interesting and challenging issues facing planners today . We've had four such events now, and had some brilliant speakers and conversation around four different but related subjects…
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Customer Development
Serial entrepreneur and renowned tutor of entrepreneurship (at Stanford, Columbia, and UC Berkeley) Steve Blank has developed one of the core themes in his classes – what he calls the 'customer development model' – into a book: The Startup Owner's Manual. Customer development is a parallel process to product development that involves a focus on…
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‘Drama Is Anticipation Mingled With Uncertainty’
There's a lot to take from this wonderful TED talk by the multi-oscar winning writer and director Andrew Stanton, who was Pixar's ninth employee and whose credits include Toy Story, A Bug's Life, Finding Nemo and WALL-E. It made me think about the relationship between technology and creativity. One of the many interesting stories in the…
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On Algorithmic Curation
The use of algorithms is, I think, one of the big three big elements of content curation. There were two interesting posts that I happened across on the subject yesterday. The first, from 'Iphoneographer' Chris Smith, who (late last year) attempted to reverse engineer the algorithm that selects photos for the Instagram popular page in order…
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Post Of The Month – March 2012 – The Winner
Well, something of a runaway winner in this months vote. Despite a strong showing from Made By Many's Picle development story, it was Andy Nairn's post on the Facebook Timeline that won through. So well done Andy. You get the props of your blogging peers and are entered into the Hall Of Fame. Thanks everyone for taking…
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Post Of The Month – March 2012 – The Vote
Thanks for the nominations (as noted below the MadeByMany nomination is for the blogging of an open development process, hence the reference to other relevant posts). Our shortlist for this month's vote is: The Curation Debate by Noah Brier The Picle Story from MadeByMany (you might also want to take a look at We're Launching Picle, Picle is Here, Picle…