Category: Technology

  • Feeding the thirst for knowledge about social media

    Tuesday and Wednesday in Cologne, Thursday in London… quite an intense travel week. So now back at base in Amsterdam to get my head down in resuming some pressing client work before the next expedition wave to Barcelona next week and…

  • Google: The Buddha of the internet age

    A nice soundbite from an observer of the Google Zeitgeist Europe conference taking place in the UK today: […] One analyst, who declined to be named, said: “Google likes to see itself as the Buddha of the internet age who…

  • Surely conventional wisdom can’t be right

    Jeff Jarvis says: […] The problems with books are many: They are frozen in time without the means of being updated and corrected. They have no link to related knowledge, debates, and sources. They create, at best, a one-way relationship…

  • SAP and the science of market disruption

    German enterprise software vendor SAP is open to an acquisition by US technology groups, according to a Financial Times report yesterday: […] Hasso Plattner, supervisory board chief at the German group, said in an interview with FT Deutschland, the FT’s…

  • The BBC’s Second Life

    This weekend, the BBC is broadcasting One Big Weekend, a live rock concert from Dundee, Scotland. Giant screens in various UK locations enable anyone there to enjoy the happenings from Dundee. Not only in the real world, though: The BBC…