December 2010
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Capitalism is Dead. Long Live Capitalism. By Gary...
“So what stands in the way of creating a conscientious, accountable and sustainable sort of capitalism—a system that in the long-term is actually habitable?
It is, I think, a matrix of deeply held beliefs about what business is for, whose interests it serves and how it creates value. Many of these beliefs are near canonical (at least among CEOs of a particular generation or ideological...
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WatchThe Strokes on mixtapes’ memories.
Brand content by TDK.
September 2010
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The Listening Up Manifesto by Umair Haque
“If I wanted to put it a little less nicely, I’d say this. Marketing as we know it - and as we practice it - is based on the premise that a handful of imperious companies could, from the misty heights, talk down. That they could - if they invested enough cash in the black arts of persuasion - order, control, subjugate, command, and dominate. Companies spent the last century...
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How Apple Just Disrupted the Cable Guys
Evan Hansen for Wired
So why is Apple TV different? Because Steve Jobs has not just created a new set-top box. He’s actually created a new media ecosystem built around the mobile phone.
You need a new ecosystem if you’re going to dislodge cable. Cable controls the whole stack, as people in IT like to say. From the content owners, which are addicted to the huge licensing fees only cable can...
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YouTube Ads Turn Videos Into Revenue
“Salar Kamangar, YouTube’s co-head, who also co-founded Google’s AdWords search advertising program, started spending his time figuring out how to make money on the video business.
YouTube gives Google the chance to get a piece of the television ad market, Mr. Kamangar said, by bringing videos straight to the television over an Internet connection, or Internet protocol, as the industry...
August 2010
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May 2010
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It’s depressing how creative some people are...
designburp:
I was researching some creative ads for my next assignment. I thought I’d share some of the more interesting ones. Why? Because I have nothing better to do and to be honest, it’s depressing how creative some people are.
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Harakiri's agency
In a recent post at the 99% blog (part of the Behance Network), Mark McGuiness explains why you must “Build a Business, Not Just a Client List”
“This is the classic dilemma described by Michael Gerber in The E-Myth – sole traders start out with dreams of independence, but find themselves trapped by their own business. They spend all their time working in the business (doing...
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April 2010
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Make the user work for it!
clientsfromhell:
Client: ”I want you to put the search box at the bottom of my website. I’m tired of all those websites that have them at the top, it’s way too ‘in your face’. I want my visitors to really want to search.”
Me: ”Umm..you want them to search for the search box?”
Client: ”Exactly.”
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Blow-Up
aconversationoncool:
Michelangelo Antonioni - 1966
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Cool clients by Paul Isakson
Found on the blog of the always smart Paul Isakson
“Hashem was in town last night and gave a great talk at CATFOA. Afterward, a few of us went out to grab a bite and chat. Somewhere over the course of the conversation, Dion brought up something he read or heard about how Mother London views the clients they aim to work with. The thing he recollected was that they don’t look...
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The Collapse of Complex Business Models by Clay...
“To pick a couple of examples more or less at random, last year Barry Diller of IAC said, of content available on the web, “It is not free, and is not going to be,” Steve Brill of Journalism Online said that users “just need to get back into the habit of doing so [paying for content] online”, and Rupert Murdoch of News Corp said “Web users will have to pay for what they watch and...
March 2010
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The Quiet Revolution by Neil Perkin
In less than 15 days, second killer posts from Neil Perkin (don’t miss his terrific “Agile Planning”) where he explains that attracting and retaining talent is top threats to big organizations’ success
“Let’s face it, the recession has been a wake up call for many businesses. If it hasn’t, it should’ve been. The key challenge for many ...
cities:
‘I was completely unknown for thirty years, my books did not sell at all. I was comfortable with that situation which worked well with my view on things. The only important years are the years of anonymity. To be unknown is a voluptuousness which has its bitter sides sometimes, but it is an extraordinary state.’ — Emil Cioran (in conversation with Michael Jakob), 1988
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WatchWith a budget of 420 000 euros, “Miami-Havana” is a web documentary produced by the french-german TV ARTE. The synopsis is rather engaging :
“Follow everyday life as experienced by young men and women from Havana and Miami over three months. In Havana, revolution is no longer what it used to be. In Miami, most Cubans have become Americans. Times have changed and new...
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Marketing through Experiences by Taylor Davidson
The economics of the web have increased the competition between content creators, flattened the experience advantage and upended supply and demand for content. But at the same time, it’s expanded the opportunity to create context, made context easier, cheaper and more accessible to create than ever before. People that recognize how context is created, what type of context they can create, and why...
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Music, Technology, Art, Economy: The economics... →
2. “Everyone is a prosumer of something.” What does that mean? For the purposes of this discussion, it means that the top consumers of any Thing typically produce a lot of social media banter (“information”) about said Thing. It means that everyone (and I do mean 100% of everyone) has something they are REALLY passionate about. If you agree that in the very near future everyone will prosume the...
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WatchVid for Sleepyhead from Passion Pit’s debut EP Chunk Of Change.
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“The future of advantage is radically different from the past for a simple...”
– The New Paradigm of Advantage by Umair Haque.
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WatchNokia : Conversation, the new conversation
Arto Joenssu, Head of Digital Marketing at Nokia, and the rest of his search & social team are spreading the message that conversations are the new conversion across Nokia and beyond.
Via the always spotless We are social
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Shifting Identities - From Consumer to Networked...
John Hagel, one of the co-author of the Big Shift Index, is pretty active on his blog these days. And it seems that a Big Shift Theory is in the pipe:
Quoted from one of the last posts of John Hagel on Edge perspectives
In the 20th century we witnessed a deep split in our professional and personal identities. The quest for scalable efficiency in all of our institutions required us to conform to...
February 2010
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“What really caused the crisis was the fact that we didn’t care. Bankers didn’t...”
– The Real Roots of the Crisis - Umair Haque - Harvard Business Review (via brooksjordan)
December 2009
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October 2009
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I prefer John Grant to Rupert Murdoch
So there is this emphatic and dramatic oracle of Rupert Murdoch at the World Media Summit :
“The Philistine phase of the digital age is almost over. The aggregators and the plagiarists will soon have to pay a price for the co-opting of our content. But if we do not take advantage of the current movement toward paid-for content, it will be the content creators, the people in this hall, who...
July 2009
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Guardian Media Top 100 joins other studies of...
Funnily enough, I know something of what I speak (for a change, I hear you cry ). The talk I gave at the Media Futures conference was directly on this topic, and how the Meedja is entering a 3-5 year “Creative Destruction” period which promises to shake it to its core. We have actually done quite a lot of research and scenario planning on this (that is an in-post plug for our...
June 2009
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