Thinking Cities, Networked Society - Ericsson
Peter Diamandis: Abundance is our future
Alan Moore on the Trilemma of the Digital Age. Given this year’s theme of ‘Disrupt’ Alan Moore was a wonderful addition to TEDxSheffield. @AlanSMLXL is a noted expert on disruption particularly in a nonlinear world. He’s the author of ‘Communities Dominate Brands’ and he has a new book coming out in October entitled ‘No Straight Lines’ which originally came to fame as a hugely popular talk delivered at SXSWi in Austin, TX.
Don Tapscott: Networked Intelligence
Via Ross Dawson’s blog. Some of the topics we discuss include:
“Twitter News Network” or TNN (as used by Brian Solis, first, I believe) describes how Twitter is now a news distribution media, dramatically increasing the speed of news, with most news hitting Twitter within 40 seconds.
TNN will be bigger than CNN, including video and audio on Twitter, produced by the masses with rich filtering
One of the key differences between TNN and CNN is the filtering – there is none on Twitter whereas CNN has editors and verification.
In the decade of the reputation economy we will have more ways to assess news validity, though we will also need more finely tuned senses on what is or might be correct.
Twitter is an ocean whereas mainstream news is a dripfeed so it is more manageable. It is the role of the ecosystem around Twitter to filter the news firehose. Flipboard, paper.li, Twittertim.es, Geneio and so on are seeking to filter Twitter and social media.
One of Twitter’s revenue models is charging companies significant amounts for access to the full Twitter firehose, but the ‘Spritzer’ feed of 2% of the firehose is available for free.
In a world of information overload, Twitter is one of the most useful information sources if you know how to use it well.
Nice, updated video summarizing some social media facts
- Gerd Leonhard: Malaysian man ordered to tweet an apology 100 times in defamation case (thenextweb.com)
- New video: Telemedia Futures: how open technologies will shape the future of business, media and communications (USI 2010) (mediafuturist.com)
Video: virtual shopping assistant: heliodisplay
From TheNextWeb: “One of the biggest overheads and variables in any business is employing people on the ground. But why bother having people around when you can do it all virtually? This video shows a 3D projection of a person who in a couple of years could be standing virtually in a shop telling you what to buy based on the information it already has on you….” Pretty amazing, and potentially quite … weird:)
Welcome video: Gerd Leonhard, CEO of The Futures Agency
Google opt-out village - Hilarious!!!
