Revealed after 50 years: The secret of the greatest-ever student prank at Gonville & Caius, revealed by the Daily Mail, back when Rob was a student there. Wonder if he knew any of them? Reply from Rob, off to Perth in Oz via Dubai on Emirates, tomorrow out of Birmingham Airport: “I remember Peter Davey as a [...]
Visa Inc. on Tuesday launched a new business network on Facebook and is paying for $2 million of advertising on the site. (Found this on the San Jose Business Journal today, but it makes a wider point)
Through the new site, Visa said it expects to tap into Palo Alto-based Facebook’s more than 80 million active users, while Facebook expects to bring in more advertisers to its site and generate more revenue.
Thanks to David Terrar looks like IT Counts will be helping example the power of WordFrame as an enterprise 2.0 platform at the E2.0 Forum outside Milan.
A few dry thoughts as to why setting up a social networking site for nerds/scientists/geeks/ etc can be a tad more difficult than high school students. Borrowed and adapted from: Nerds have different objectives when it comes to social interaction.“Normal” people expect to accomplish several unrealistic things from socialinteraction:* Stimulating and thought provoking conversation;* Important social contacts;* [...]
Just confirmed today that the father of the first PC spreadsheet, Dan Bricklin, is a member of the ICAEW’s IT Counts. Here he is looking very 1978.
I like coincidences, so it was great fun to see the recent Fortune magazine article ‘America’s Hottest Investor’ focus on a true contrarian, mutual fund manager Ken Heebner, who also just happens to be at the top of his investment game. And who just happens to confirm my liking for Petrobas (PBR): “Petrobas could become the biggest stock in the world,” he says..
Hmm, having got in with Twitter I see the nice feature of MyBlogLog where you can link to your other ‘services’ like Flickr..
Like a lot of people who’ve had chance to work with Microsoft it comes as no surprise that they’ve realised it’s time to deal with their image problem in the market place. Check out the musings of Red Slice, for example. In ‘Can Hotshot Ad Guy Alex Bogusky Make Microsoft Cool?’ this dilemma has fallen [...]
What if you were asked for your opinion of how to provide a valuation of a web 2.0 product? There are no easy answers and the cases of over-valuation are easy to find. For example the purchase of Skype by e-Bay for $2.6bn in 2005, e-Bay later admitted in 2007 it had overpaid by a clear $1bn. [...]
TOWARDS A WORKING NON-LINEAR SCIENCE OF EMPOWERMENT Stuart G. Hall, m-power A paper for presentation during the Ninth Annual International Conference of the Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and the Life Sciences in Berkeley, California, July 23-26, 1999 Abstract: This paper is based on the believe that people have an intuitive [...]
