A shout out to Lee Wilson at the Education Business Blog who wrote A Contrarian View of Social Media, adding another perspective to my recent panel and posts about social networking.
Lee quotes Bob Hoffman over at Copyblogger whose post A Cranky, Skeptical Loudmouth Looks at Social Media Marketing bottom lines the distaff view:
You and I […]
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The Contrarian View
Published June 5th, 2008 in Marketing, Social Networking, User Experience and Web 2.0 & Beyond. 1 CommentThe Search Game
Published May 7th, 2008 in Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Serious Games and User Experience. 0 CommentsA shout out to Eliane Alhadeff for her recent post Search as a Serious Game which highlights a seriously cool search interface from SearchMe.com. A picture says a thousand words so file this under User Experience and go take it for a spin to see what web search + gamer centered design might look […]
Bubbles Big and Small
Published December 31st, 2007 in Business & Finance, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Uncategorized, Web 2.0 & Beyond and nextNY. 0 CommentsHaving lived through the first Internet bubble I see as many differences with “Web 2.0″ as similarities to the madness of the ’90s. Still, this video from nextNY.org is too funny and timely not to share. So enjoy your tiny bubbles tonight, let’s avoid making another big one, and see you next year!
The Best of 2007
Published December 21st, 2007 in Business & Finance, Culture, Dust or Magic, Educational Technologies, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Project Management, Serious Games, Uncategorized, User Experience, Web 2.0 & Beyond and nextNY. 0 CommentsI decided to publish a readers “best-of-2007″ list for my final post of the year based on a Google Analytics site report. Here are a dozen plus two of the best stories on this blog in 2007 (click on the title to go to that post) ranked by number of visits:
Games Meet the Social Web
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Free: The Past & Future of a Radical Price
Published December 20th, 2007 in Business & Finance, Culture, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, User Experience and Web 2.0 & Beyond. 0 CommentsI’m betting that like me, most of you didn’t attend Nokia World last month where Chris Anderson gave the keynote and a preview of his next book, Free.
For those who don’t know him, Chris Anderson is the editor-in-chief of Wired magazine as well as the author of The Long Tail (book, blog) on niche marketing. […]
A VC’s Perspective on EdTech Investment
Published November 29th, 2007 in Business & Finance, Educational Technologies, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Serious Games, Uncategorized and Web 2.0 & Beyond. 1 CommentPart one of three reports on the SIIA’s Ed Tech Business Forum, the leading business and finance conference for the K-12 and postsecondary education technology market that wrapped up a few days ago in New York. This annual event attracts senior management from education software companies, platform technology firms, solution providers, publishers, private equity […]
Dust or Magic Video Wrap-up
Published November 20th, 2007 in Culture, Dust or Magic, Educational Technologies, Marketing, Project Management, Serious Games, Uncategorized and Web 2.0 & Beyond. 2 CommentsI left the 2007 Dust or Magic conference a few weeks ago with nine hours of video to edit, my mind full of new insights about interactive technology for kids. Though I’m remiss in writing up my notes for the blog, the videos alone are an excellent window on this exclusive gathering with presentations […]
A Penguin’s Tale
Published November 12th, 2007 in Culture, Dust or Magic, Marketing and User Experience. 2 CommentsLane Merrifield opened the Dust or Magic conference by giving us a front-row seat to the creation of Club Penguin. If there was ever a testament to the Power of Nice it’s Lane’s story.
Although Club Penquin seemed to burst on the scene last summer when it was acquired by Disney, it’s been far from an […]
SIIA EdTech Forum
Published November 1st, 2007 in Educational Technologies, Emerging Technologies and Marketing. 0 CommentsThe week after Thanksgiving this year I’ll be blogging from the SIIA’s 7th Annual Ed Tech Business Forum - the leading business and finance conference for the K-12 and postsecondary education technology market - at the University Club in New York. The speakers an attendees at this conference read like a who’s who […]
Digital Media Marketplace
Published October 8th, 2007 in Culture, Emerging Technologies, Marketing and Web 2.0 & Beyond. 0 CommentsLeading the Red Herring’s top articles this morning is a story about a new service called Zipidee that’s a paradigm shift in the sale of digital content, particularly for independently produced digital media and long-tail products from the majors:
“A startup coming out of stealth mode is hoping to upend the market for digital products in […]
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