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Digital technology
Natural language recognition is an amazing productivity booster
Let’s talk about natural language recognition. I am a personal productivity freak. As someone doing business I value my time very much. However, whereas posting articles on this blog for instance may appear as a waste of time to many, to me it doesn’t. But I admit to it, I…
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social media & social networks
Social Internet: 15 golden rules for Web 2.0
What are the rules for Web 2.0 or social web success on the social internet? This document was originally designed to address the questions which were sent to me by large customers wanting to launch web 2.0 initiatives. Very often these clients wanted to jump on the bandwagon, but they…
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Marketing & Innovation
Media piss-takes and teething problems can’t beat iPhone mania
Steve Jobs isn’t only responsible for launching one of the most fashionable phones in high-tech history, he is also the man to blame for a new disease, iPhone mania. The iPhone generated record sales over the past weekend and even though many of the first-time buyers experienced problems. Media piss-takes and…
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Digital technology
Newsatseven on Harry Potter
Newsatseven is a new service which compiles and delivers news to you, direct from the Web and automatically generates a youtube news show with an Avatar (named Alyx Vance). Below is the newscast from Newsatseven for June 19th, 2007 and it’s about the latest Harry Potter film. News archives are…
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Marketing & Innovation
Joint innovation: a client perspective in real-time
A brand new version of the Orange Business joint innovation whitepaper for business services – which I have co-authored with Jean-François Fava Verde – has just been made available (Whitepaper download). This latest version of the whitepaper was distributed at Connect 2007, the worldwide event for Orange Business Services clients…
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Digital technology
Tentative segmentation of pro and anti Second Life behaviours
While I was posting an article on http://www.marktd.com, I came across this very interesting post about second-life. The very politically incorrect idea that second life may not be the promised Eldorado is actually a frightening prospect to many. But as Marketing is the subject here, the very conventional Marketing idea…
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social media & social networks
The living proof of Wikinomics and the Power of Us
We all know about Wikinomics, Don Tapscott’s latest contribution to our world of changes. One may think that Tapscott’s exposé is a little bit theoretical and judging by the number of people of all nationalities whom I have met recently and who still wonder what a wiki is, one may…
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Digital technology
Ubiquitous computing: the computer for the 22nd century?
Ubiquitous computing has been on the agenda for a while now. This concept was in fact created by the much regretted Mark Weiser from Xerox PARC in the 1970s (see a reprint of the founding article, The Computer for the 21st century). It was really visionary. The computer of the…
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Marketing & Innovation
Technological Innovation: God Bless You Mr Vonnegut!
Seen today on Time’s website the expected yet sad announcement of Mr Vonnegut’s death at 84 today, April 24th, 2007. I know that – apparently at least – it hasn’t much to do with innovation, but in fact it does. Vonnegut was an amazing satirist who had captured the spirit of…
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Marketing & Innovation
When will electronic newspapers be available?
We knew it had been in the works for a while but here we go now, the French economic daily Les Echos, an FT’s subsidiary since 1989, is launching its electronic newspapers today. Earlier versions of such contraptions had already been launched at the heart of the 2000 bubble and…
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social media & social networks
Marketing in social networks
Joe Lewis has an interesting story about social marketing as a reader rightfully pointed out (social marketing is indeed about marketing products or services which can be viewed as beneficial from a Society point of view). To sum it up in a few words: an iProspect (a search engine marketing…
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Marketing & Innovation
devalued manager status could explain collaboration / wikinomics surge
Is this another sign of the times, the after-shock after 10 years of Dilbertish hard-talk against managers or just the result of a profound transformation of the employment landscape? It’s probably hard to tell exactly but last December, the FT came up with an interesting article about how managers were…
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