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Published on October 20, 2009 11:06 am.
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Flashier Mobs?

Flashier Mobs?

A lot has been written about technologies, such as Facebook Causes in bringing people together and rightly so, it’s an excellent platform. Fast forward to a world of rich profiles and location awareness. At what point does the cost of identifying and bringing together like-minds in a crowd become so low as to be deemed trivial? In what contexts will the process be sufficiently automated/rapid that a significant % of ‘mobsters will be unsure what they’re mobbing about? (via Future Perfect)

Published on October 5, 2009 4:56 pm.
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What You Say v. What You Do

Social Media: It’s Not What You Say That MattersView more documents from Paul Isakson.
Paul Isakson has a brilliant, and I think quite on-point, take on where the social web is today, and where it’s headed. You’ve likely seen a great deal of this before, albeit perhaps in slightly different contexts.
The clincher, for me, is this [...]

Published on September 9, 2009 3:46 pm.
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The Optimist Conspectus: Sam Ford

Despite the current troubling economic times, which affect the media industries and the academy alike, I can’t help but find myself personally optimistic. The primary reason, I would suspect, is that I am just naturally an optimistic person, or so I’ve been told. That can perhaps lead to some naivete, but I’ve always hoped to [...]

Published on April 10, 2009 8:50 pm.
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Mobile Phones and FM Transmitters

I posted last week about Jeffrey Sachs comments regarding the potential good that will eminate from extended mobile reach in Africa.
Today, something quite similar, and altogether different, via a post from Chris Muscarella1, in which he quotes Ethan Zuckerman of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society from Mobile Tech for Social Change:
“If you pair [...]

Published on February 23, 2009 9:29 pm.
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Two Interviews: Piers Fawkes and Gerd Leonhard

Two very insightful interviews posted this morning:
Chris Wilson over at The Marketing Fresh Peel interviews Piers Fawkes of PSFK as part of his Future of Work series. Fawkes opens up on his views of the changes in the workplace that Gen-Y will face:
Gen Yers are going to work for scores of companies and they need [...]

Published on February 13, 2009 11:57 am.
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When Patchwork is Comprehensive

Helge Tenno, always about six hours ahead of the rest of us on 180360720.no, has a great post today summarizing a panel from the PSFK Salon this past weekend focused on the mobile user in which he relates a discussion about a patchwork approach to location-based solutions.
Put more eloquently: Mobile is about people, not technology, [...]

Published on February 2, 2009 2:15 pm.
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