Category: Trends

  • An alternate hype cycle

    For the past few years, I’ve posted about Gartner’s hype cycles when the new series is published by the research firm, usually in mid July or thereabouts. The ones that typically interest me are emerging technologies and social software. What…

  • The video wave rolls on worldwide

    In countries around the world, it’s no longer the TV set in the home that’s the primary way people consume video. According to new research from market researcher Nielsen, just published, how people consume audio-visual content today embraces many different…

  • UK’s top tech and online marketing blogs for August

    Next week, European search engine and news portal Wikio will be publishing the rankings for August 2010 of their lists of the top blogs in the many categories under which they’re classified. For the past 18 months, I’ve been posting…

  • Valuable insights for marketers if they listen

    The results of a survey on how people use Twitter published yesterday adds confirmation in my mind that those who think Twitter is just another marketing channel don’t really understand people’s behaviours. The survey Twitter and the Consumer-Marketer Dynamic, conducted…

  • The huge potential of India

    Swedish internet monitoring and analytics firm Royal Pingdom posted some great metrics today on which countries are the largest in terms of internet users and speculates on what the future might hold. While the primary chart in Royal Pingdom’s post…