Are you ready?

The Hyperconnected: Here They Come! is the name of a new IDC study of global communications habits commissioned by Nortel. They interviewed 2400 working adults in 17 countries. This will have implications on how business is being conducted as this group expands at a rapid pace and travel will certainly be affected. Their demands on the user experience will be higher than those of the less connected. They will also very likely be more willing to post their comments and reviews, good or bad, to their social network and beyond.

The study can be downloaded from the article page. Better get ready!

Technorati Tags: IDC, Nortel, communications, hyperconnected

Why did anyone expect otherwise

This post Will Social Networking Ever = Money? asks a question that to me is surprising. To compare the potential of social networking sites to generate ad revenue to that of Google just doesn't work. The reasons are obvious, the mindset of people using at different times using the web for a different purpose. This is especially true in today's age of permission marketing and the conversations going on.

Ads on social networking sites are interruption marketing which has been called dead since at least 1999 by the likes of Seth Godin who was one of the first to point out this important fact. So, will there be money in social networking? Probably yes, but not on the scale of the money to be made on search.

The Google Blog on Yahoo

BoomTown Decodes It, So You Don’t Have To! a follow up to my last post. Parsing Google's response trying hard to play David to the perceived new Goliath! Believable? Hardly. Stay tuned as this unfolds, or should I say, drags on and on and on.....

The Machine is U

this video is a great description and visualization of the web today and how it will develop beyond 2.0 by adding intelligence

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Hat tip to Stephen Joyce for bringing it to my attention.

Keen vs. Weinberger: The Plot (by Amateurs) Against America

Here's a comment by John Biggs of CrunchGear

I can only wish I was able to write in as witty a style as he does and oh, yeah as a bonus he also throws in a punch at Murdoch!

Why is this man smiling?

I was on my way to the outhouse with some print-outs of the WSJ opinion page — the newsprint version is too harsh — when I noticed an interview between Andrew Keen, writer of The Cult of the Amateur, and David Weinberger, author of Everything is Miscellaneous.

Mr. Keen’s argument runs in the cranky old man watching Elvis on Ed Sullivan vein. He believes blogging and all this Web 2.0 razamatazz is a bunch of Commie hoo-ha and in his day you used to have to go to the library to look up the long-winded ramblings of an accredited critic, scientist, or guy-who-writes-encylopediast to get information on a topic, not some hoopty-doopty hippity hoppity kid out in Kansas with a keyboard and some moxie, by gum, whose only interests include letting dogs pee on Mr. Keen’s lawn and preventing him from getting a good night’s sleep thanks to all the Web 2.0 bordello parties they’re having down the street. Mr. Weinberger thinks Web 2.0 is cool.

Watch the sparks fly as these two UFC-certified intellectuals spar on Murdoch’s future dumping ground. Roar!