Archive for the ‘Social Web’ Category
May 26th, 2011

The internet isn’t broken, but there are cracks and a sledgehammer rests in the hands of the heads of the G8. I started formulating this post last week as I finished the final session of the e-G8 Forum in Paris. The Forum was a platform to formulate advice to the G8 conference held directly afterwards. [...]
October 8th, 2010

Yesterday news flooded the interwebs about the really crap new logo from Gap. They launched the new logo on their website and let the world know… mostly via social media. Along with the website logo change, a website popped up that let you make your own version of the Crap Logo, and it seems despite [...]
January 2nd, 2010

To ring in the new year, Japan’s Prime Minister, Yukio Hatoyama has launched a very social looking portal site called Hatocafe as a special part of his official cabinet website, Kantei (kind of like the Japanese Whitehouse). The first thing that is striking about this is the visual style. Its a particularly Web 2.0 style website [...]
September 11th, 2009

Today we launched Red Bull Crowdcast, which is as far as I know the first time a global brand has handed over the keys of live casting an event to the audience and allowing them to show their vision of the event in real time.
August 16th, 2009

This blog has been on hiatus for a while now, since November last year to be more precise. So I thought anybody who is good enough to read what I have to say deserves a bit of an explanation about where I have been all this time. There are a few different reasons, let me run them down for you …
July 13th, 2008

Recently we, as a collective internet populace, have become very good at republishing our comments, images, and other life streaming features to multiple platforms. Our status updates are the most common, with Twitter (and for the early adopters, FriendFeed) being the easiest and most common to republish elsewhere. Some of the common places to push [...]
May 7th, 2008

Now that Twitter has hit Japan in Japanese, and as I wait for the first official word about how that is going for the good people at Twitter Japan, I have been putting my mind to the future of Micro-blogging and more importantly, how important is Twitter in that picture. There have been a lot [...]
April 21st, 2008

I have been wanting to do this story for a while based on my experiences of working with social media and trying to make sense of the growth and subsequent abandonment of many social networks. It seems it is every month that we have another star social network, social web concept, or interaction model. Right [...]
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