2012, Year of the Chinese Internet Industry Growing Beyond Borders: It Is...
What is currently planned at Alibaba, Tencent, Sina, and Baidu worth an additional paper. My duty is to continue the story published last year and called “Chinese Internet industry ready to grow beyond...
View ArticleMicrosoft has sent a Warning Shot to the OEMs
So I missed the Microsoft Surface launch big time. It was only recently that I managed to have a look at what this product means to the industry.read more
View ArticleA Niche in Our Own Industry
Does technology affect people – or just our access to them? This has been a popular question, which has defined much of the discussion concerning the digitization of communication for the last ten...
View ArticleThe Future Isn't About Mobile; It's About Mobility
Originally posted on the Harvard Business Review While the globe grapples with uncertain economic realities, "mobile" appears to be gold.Facebook is expected to announce their uniquely targeted mobile...
View ArticleThe True Superhumans Are Already Among U
We used to think of “superhumans” as comic book heroes possessing extraordinary, even divine-like powers. Now, we are realizing that the true superhumans are already among us – they are the...
View ArticleDo We Really Need to Turn off Devices on Planes?
I've been fortunate to be doing a fair bit of travelling with work over the past year, so have become well used to the obligatory request on flights to turn off any electronic devices during take-off...
View ArticleHow Virtual Avatars Could Disrupt Politics
If you thought the speakers at this year’s political conventions were dynamic – especially Michelle Obama making the speech of her life – just wait until 2016, when you could see famous politicians who...
View Article5 Major Trends for the Future of IT and the Web – #blogbus
The Orange Blogger bus tour – of which I am the organiser on behalf of Orange of which I am the Director of Internet and social media – was stopping by San Francisco today and the whole day was hosted...
View ArticleTechnology Will Only Solve 1/3 of Your Social Business Problem
I'm behind on writing a bit as I've just returned from Norway and before that, Dreamforce in San Francisco. It was my first time attending and speaking at Dreamforce and to be honest, I was completely...
View ArticleWhy Ray Kurzweil's Predictions Are Right 86% of the Time
It's that time of the year again when techno pundits are once again breathlessly telling us all about the technology and innovation trends that will be big in 2013. That's great, but many of those...
View ArticleTen stats to show we’re entering the post PC age
"When we're talking about the post-PC world, we're talking about a world where your new device, the devices that you use the most, need to be more portable, more personal, and dramatically easier to...
View ArticleAre Kids Technology's New Early Adopters?
When we think of technology’s early adopters, we tend to think of the young hipsters in tech hubs like New York or San Francisco, testing out all the cool new apps, gadgets and gizmos before the rest...
View ArticleThe State of Green Business, 2013
The 2013 State of Green Business report, our sixth annual, has just been published. It tells a story of the shifting business reality — a world slowly coming to grips with a changing climate, economic...
View ArticleEvgeny Morozov and why we should beware the prophets of technological utopianism
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View ArticleThe difference between a gadget and a product
A few weeks ago, social media “personalities” and tech gurus were so busy trying to out-swoon each other over Google Glass that no one seemed to want to ask the most obvious question everyone should...
View ArticleHow technology and business is changing communication
My presentation at the iab.think digital in Brussels on the 28th May.read more
View ArticleWhy young adults are more connected than ever before and what this means for...
For today’s young adults (those aged 18-30), access to technology is, alongside education, seen as a critical component of progress and opportunity. A recent survey of 12,000 young adults across 27...
View ArticleThe Retailification of Online Publishing
Less than a week for Doomsday1, and two things continue to surprise me.First, the number of Google Reader2 devotees (including me) who are yet to find a replacement. With other dead products walking,...
View ArticleCompanies Take Note: Don't Remove Human Touch, Please!
Human touch trumps technology!On the heels of my post a couple weeks ago about humans vs. technology in delivering a great customer experience, I thought I'd share some human touch articles of late....
View ArticlePlato: Know Thy Selfie
The selfie has emerged as one of the defining modes of self-expression of the smartphone era. Sometimes, it seems like half of all photos uploaded to Facebook or Instagram each day are selfies. While...
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