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The Social Data Revolution(s) – Now, New, Next – Harvard Business Review

Published on 5 February, 2010 in Links View Comments

"In 2009, more data will be generated by individuals than in the entire history of mankind through 2008. Information overload is more serious than ever. What are the implications for marketing?"

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This is just beautiful!

Published on 4 February, 2010 in Inspirations View Comments

This is just beautiful!

(via Francesco Franchi)

The Hoxton Squires

Published on 7 July, 2009 in Inspirations & Projects View Comments

Founded in Hoxton Square on a Saturday afternoon in 2005.
They kick ass.

Even though it’s my own project – it still inspires me…

[click to continue…]

Taming the Information Monster

Published on 14 June, 2008 in Media+Tech & Writings View Comments

It seems that the big 4 [Microsoft, Intel, Google, IBM] are suffering from an overload of internal internet usage.

People are not working — they are emailing, twittering, facebooking, and googling, while at work — and the big information conglomerates are in need to do something about it.

Now these companies that created the big information beast will find ways to sell their solutions to other companies. Smart asses.

Link: NY Times

Google donates to Yahoo! [updated]

Published on 13 June, 2008 in Media+Tech & Writings View Comments

Big news this morning

Yahoo and arch rival Google said on Thursday they had entered a non-exclusive partnership on search advertising expected to add as much as $800 million in annual revenue.

This deal will give Yahoo! some money to breathe and will take Microsoft off their back. The real reason behind it is to give Yahoo! a bit more time to find a better partner and learn about my idea

In short: Adobe and Yahoo! should strike a winning deal. 

[I probably need to write a better proposal... now that time is on our side]

 

** Update **

Incremental Blogger suggests that “Yahoo should acquire AllTop.com along with Guy Kawasaki“. 

This is not a bad idea in its own right - directories are part of the DNA of Yahoo and Kawasaki does twits everyone with his AllTop evangelism. Advertising is maybe an answer, but its not the future. It could help Yahoo momentarily [like the Google donation], but it wouldn’t make it different and kicking.

We need something bigger here, something futuristic, something that will take Yahoo out of the miseries of Web 2.0 and into Web 3.0 [I'm afraid that Web 3.0 is going to be like World War III, but that's a different post].

Adobe, with their technological control over the future of the market, and with their stronghold of holding creative people in the balls, can trigger that move, and hey – every company in the world uses Adobe products. It  will give Yahoo the leverage they need, and a lot of it.

To my original post - Adobe + Yahoo = Web 3.0

 

The truth is out there

Published on 12 February, 2008 in Writings View Comments

The truth about social networks and webmails is starting to come out.

Few days ago Zephoria (aka Danah Boyd) wrote about her friend Bob who had bad encounters with Google:

Earlier this week, Bob received a notice that there was a spam problem in his Orkut community. The message was in English and it looked legitimate and so he clicked on it. He didn’t realize that he’d fallen into a phisher’s net until it was too late. His account was hijacked for god-knows-what-purposes until his account was blocked and deleted. He contacted Google’s customer service and their response basically boiled down to “that sucks, we can’t restore anything, sign up for a new account.” Boom! No more email, no more calendar, no more Orkut, no more gChat history, no more Blogger, no more anything connected to his Google account.

Yesterday an article in the NY-Times told us that Facbook

…offers users the option to deactivate their accounts, Facebook servers keep copies of the information in those accounts indefinitely. Indeed, many users who have contacted Facebook to request that their accounts be deleted have not succeeded in erasing their records from the network.

Here is a video that tell us the truth about Facebook, from the research I did myself, most of it is true. Frightening.

and here is one that tell the truth about Google. Scary!

Thoughts on web-advertising

Published on 8 February, 2008 in Media+Tech & Writings View Comments

According to FOXNews.com, Facebook has unveiled plans to target advertisements by injecting them into its members’ conversations.

Facebook is giving users some control over whether to share information on their buying habits and other online activities with friends.

For the program announced Tuesday to work, enough users must actually say “yes” so advertisers can show users their pitches in the guise of friends’ endorsements.

It seems that Facebook is trying to make money out of its sudden success, but not exactly know how. It feels that its creators are shooting to all the directions, without success…

To tell the truth, web-advertising is a just another form of spam. If my Firefox plugin would have been only slightly better, I wouldn’t have any adverts on at all when browsing. Its a great spam filter.

But like with spam mails, I learned to ignore the adverts, and just mark them as spam, without even readin the content. I hardly ever go to advertised links, and it only happens by mistake, or because Google placed them in a strategic location at the top of my search results.

The major problem with spamdvertising is when heavy, loud, video adverts are appearing on certain news sites, jamming my bandwidth and crashing my browser. But I’m not sure that Google Adwords are doing any better.

I think web based companies should find other ways to make money than spam their users with advertising. Of course they might make good money of adverts, but the users don’t appreciate it a s good-will gesture, will not press on the proposed link (or doing it unknowingly), and will not remember the name of the brand. Slowly, we will just learn to ignore it.

Companies need to find a better way to advertise their products (examples 1 and 2). An simple ideas is that a marketing person will post the link on his (Facebook) page and will share it with his friends. If its good, his friends will share it with their friends and so on. This is lovable unspammed advertising (unless if its done excessively)

But how will the site (Facebook) will generate money of it?

Maybe the advertised company should donate money to the site after a succesful campaign? Maybe the site should create a pro version for their site (works for Flickr)? And maybe the site should sell T shirts and other products…

I know its difficult to generate money online, but can you please move on from web spamdverising and leave our reading space alone?

About

Published on 2 October, 2007 in View Comments

I am a creative producer: a project manager, a web thinker, an information architect, a graphic designer, a filmmaker, an idealist, and a wannabe entrepreneur. I also play with type.

In 2006 I graduated from the BA Graphic Design degree at Central Saint Martins College in London. During my studies, my main areas of creation and visualization were design, photography and filmmaking.

As a person who doesn’t confine himself to specific creative guidelines – I open myself to the effect of wide range of genres and styles in every field. I love to combine together various arts and to create the fusion of the one whole, which is unique to me and to my perception of the world.

On Design: I like the basic and the simple. “Less is More” is a strong part of my work, and from time to time enhanced with Droog design‘s concept of “Less+More”, where I start with simplicity and gradually add to it. I love typography, soft colors and a lot of space. I prefer the clean to the dirty… the classic humanist approach.

Exploration is my constant guideline and one of the most important aspects of my work. I am always trying to learn about the abilities of the technical devices that I am using as well as to discover the new visual aspects of the things that I am looking at.

On Photography: The motto of my photography is to realize the magical beauty embedded in everyday objects and common situations. I prefer to present the subjects of my photography as they appear in the real life. I am trying to perceive the specific and the unique moments that embody both the simplicity and the complexity of people and the interactions between them. While looking at still objects, I prefer to capture them in distinctive mode and unique angle that would transform them from their original appearance.

Societal issues are very important to me. I take a great interest in ideas and subjects concerning the contemporary culture, mass behavior and social habits. My interest in these matters and their significance to me were expressed in several projects that I worked on.

On Filmmaking: Unlike my photography, my filmmaking allows me to give life to the universe of my imagination, to go beyond the limits of reality and to question the boundaries between the real and the surreal. Filmmaking embodies every possible sphere of art and creative thought. Photography, fashion, graphics, sound, architecture, interior decoration and of course drama – these are only a few representatives of the spheres that are involved in the creation of a film.

I like to try new things just for the sake of my love for experimentation and learning. In my eyes, the process of learning and gaining new experiences is the most important achievement and an endless source of spiritual growth.