Another trends video

But at least this one doesn't have that Right Here Right Now by Fat Boy Slim soundtrack! So 1999.


Digital Life: Today & Tomorrow from Neo Labels on Vimeo.

Or if the Lion King soundtrack was your thing, try this one, trends with a safari theme -  ;-)

A miscellany of digital treasure

My lovely friend Dan over at Aegis produces a fabulous quarterly round up which so nicely encapsulates the large pile of things I have on my "must get around to posting about but haven't had a moment to do so" list that I'm just going to embed it and say enjoy.

Thanks Dan!

Next Generation Media Quarterly April 2011

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Far beyond the looking glass

When Lewis Caroll wrote children's classic Through the Looking Glass, circa 1871, I very much doubt his imagination could stretch anywhere near as far as the possibilities that glass surfaces can take us today and will take us in the future.  There's always lots of talk in thedigital and tech worlds about multi-screen devices and platform agnostic content, Smart-TV's that are web connected, tablet this, touchscreen that (it is the Mobile World Congress this week after all)  but component manufacturers' vital role in the innovation chain often get overlooked.

Fair play therefore to Corning (a glass manufacturer) for publishing this nice (if a tad long) video showcasing the role of glass in our ever increasingly digitally connected future. Can't help but make those shareholder meetings more interesting.



Well worth reading this interesting interview yesterday with the super smart Helge Tenno on the connected future too.

Another (updated) internet trends video, but worth a watch

Here's an updated version of the socialnomics trends video from last year. 

Sadly they are still using Right Here, Right Now by Fat Boy Slim as the backing track.

Not very right here, right now at all, it was recorded in 1999.  Surely there's something  someone could come up with from this decade?

Musicians, artists of the world, I plea to you, come up with a new pacey track about real time!?

However, fast as the stats in these things go out of date by the time they've done half a lap of the interweb, probably worth a few minutes of your time.

Consumer Electronics Show Take Outs & Misc case studies

Busy day, so here's a round up of interesting trends / technologies coming out of last week's CES.

On my other "interesting and useful" things to read today:

Twitter Case Studies

Interesting article from Harvard Business Review on Ford's use of bloggers / social outreach to launch the Fiesta in the USA.

Car park of useful things

As much as an aide-memoire to myself as for sharing, here's links to 3 very interesting things I've read recently:

Technorati's 2009 State of the Blogosphere

Sysomos's very interesting report on online video, who's watching / embedding most, on which video platforms (because there's more to video than YouTube), + includes a piece on bloggers around the workd that tesselates nicely with the Technorati stuff.

Mary Meeker's latest views on where tech & the web & especially mobile is heading. You can download the whole 68 page shabang here

Social Media: Brands really can't afford to ignore it for much longer

I came across the presentation below on Slideshare (a great resource for the curious, as in the spirit of Generation G (that's genorosity, remember?) there's all sorts of presentations and thought pieces being shared far and wide). If you are a sensitive type, then be warned the F word is used a fair bit, but get over it and watch anyway, this is about the real world, and the way that consumers are embracing social media. It's not going to go away, however far you stick your head in the sand, so smell the coffee and start to work out how your brand could be participating. The rules may not be hard and fast, but if you need help, ask!

Some of the stats are slightly out of date (for example they quote 13 hours of videos uploaded to YouTube a minute, whereas the last stat I saw said 20 hours), but let's face it the accuracy of the numbers is somewhat irrelevant, because the web is changing every second of every day, and all you need to take out is that the number is a LOT.

What the F**K is Social Media: One Year Later

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Media's evolving...

There is no doubt the media landscape has changed irrevocably over the last few years, and will continue to do so. Many of the old models are being questioned and we're all trying to get our heads around this brave new digital world that's changing so fast we're running to keep up.

So with thanks to a friend of mine in the US who sent this to me, here's a well made piece of UGC (User Generated Content) that made me smile today and made some valid points along the way.

Grab a coffee, apply your headphones and watch for 8 minutes. Long by many video standards but a story well told



And if you still need convincing that publishing is in a tricky place, and old models have to change, read this article about USA Today's plans to attempt to monetise some of their digital content.