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does Google have the chops to sell its new products?
Is Google’s geek-culture the reason why their recent product offerings haven’t taken off? Sometimes a hit debut can be a curse in disguise. Google’s business model is to pump money out of the ground....
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the Facebook stalker and other urban myths
When changes happen in society leading to unexpected results, culture fires up an immune system in the form of urban legends and cautionary tales. I’m sitting on my hands waiting for the first real...
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slide deck from EMERCE e.day
Howdy all. So the e.day is over, but the presentation goes on. Many of you have asked for my presentation to be posted on slideshare so I took the jump and uploaded for the very first time. Embedded...
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98% or even 100%-open: not enough in social networks
Last week and over the weekend, a skirmish has started in the online social network world. Even though it’s between the big players FaceBook and Google, they are both still missing the point. In a...
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viva la semantic revolution – get started by rolling your own
If we do a quick search for why web 2.0 sucks, there are plenty of resources and even attempts at correcting those issues. But we’re not here to talk about that. We are here to talk about why we need...
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zombie grooming and social favors
For New Years, my wife and I attended a party thrown by a former coworker (and good friend) of hers, someone she’d been trying to introduce me to for many months. The thought was that we’d have lots to...
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the future of “mobile” cloudy, but strong
We still have yet to understand what having a globally-available always-connected networked communication device in our pocket means. Our lives, relationships and business models will all morph over...
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is your brand keeping you back?
Are you controlling your brand, or is it controlling you? If you haven’t examined your mission statement recently, you are probably missing out on opportunity. Many moons ago, each in their separate...
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why can I only SMS other cell phones?
Why can’t I SMS to a land-line? This might seem like a silly question, but if I’m noticing it, then other people must be too. I think it’d be great to SMS my mom at her home, but of course there’s no...
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do companies look like their CEOs?
It’s eerie sometimes, isn’t it, how a dog can look like its owner. Would it be outlandish to imagine that a company looks like its CEO? Or, not looks like, exactly. But perhaps acts like? Does the...
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innovation’s dirty secret: work in disguise.
As a presenter in the area of innovation, I often get asked about the “secret” of innovation, commonly phrased as requests for “tips or strategy”. Sadly, there are no silver bullets. Instead, I usually...
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