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The Artist, the Geek, and the Business Expert

I was watching this TED video on data visualization, check it out. Then I was noticing on Twitter today that every tenth tweet had a link to an infographic and it got me thinking about a visual challenge I deal … Continue reading

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Facebook Places

My son reminded me today that I had just told him a month ago that it was just a matter of time until Facebook bought Foursquare, or just copied their location based model. It was just too obvious. Facebook with … Continue reading

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The Impact of Social Technologies

In the world I work in we are forever trying to find context to the technology changes we are living in. This has caused me to do some deep thinking on where social media/networking/relevance will end up on the scale … Continue reading

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Location Based Applications and Retail Sales – August 13, 2010

If you have not experimented with applications like FourSquare and Gowalla on your mobile device yet I suggest you load them and become familiar. I suspect that either, or both, of these companies will soon be acquired by much large … Continue reading

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The Death of Books?

I happen to be in a very unique position when it comes to book publishing. I may be one of the only people in the world to be doing three book projects all at once, and all in different publishing … Continue reading

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FaceTime – The Next Killer App

As often happens, the next application that is likely to explode in usage was announced quietly, and will grow through viral user adoption. When Apple rolled out the list of new features on the iPhone 4.0, they handed us an … Continue reading

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The Internet’s Impact on Our Brains

A topic that seems to be getting more press these days is the debate over whether the Internet is making us dumber. There are commenter’s lining up on both sides of the issue and a recent book has stoked the … Continue reading

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Cross Group Bleed Over (and other disasters)

I am not sure if this is happening to you, but it is to me, and evidently to many others as well. It is the dreaded incidence of having a conversation you are involved with in one group, bleeding over … Continue reading

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Vocabulary (and the Social Quagmire)

OK, I am only going to write about this one time, and then I am going to let it go. I start every presentation I give on social technologies with the same slide, and each time I review it, the audience nods their heads as if to say, “now I get it…” This slide is a simple vocabulary lesson to try and bring some coherence and sense to the jumble of terms people are now using in the social space. It seems that each new day brings some new variation on an activity with the word social pasted in front of it. Continue reading

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Technology Story Version 2.0

As you might have noticed, I took the month of June, and part of July off from writing this blog. The only excuse I really have is that I had three books that were all do to the publishers during … Continue reading

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