Mashable has a good trending piece on things to watch out for on the real-time web, chiefly: collaboration; analytics; search; and ecommerce. Real-Time Collaboration Whether you've had a play with Google Wave or not there is a lot of talk about it and other online services (this includes Twitter...
It’s undoubtedly very exciting that Twitter has struck deals with Microsoft and Google which will see people’s tweets added to their respective search engine results. In certain respects these are landmark deals – rather than a particular search engine trying to take market share off the other, what...
So, I've spent a week or two experimenting with Google Wave. I've had some correspondence with some journalists I know, a Vistage colleague in the US, other people who run digital agencies. And it's been a frustrating experience. I think partly the way they've done the beta release is...
The future of social media is extremely bright, taking internet users to a point where social sites cease to become a place on the internet and start becoming the internet itself. The sheer momentum behind social media is unlikely to slow down anytime soon, while the convergence of a number of critical...
Someone asked me the interesting question recently "Do you think social media is just a passing phase?", which made me think. Why is it that this new social behaviour online has taken off so overwhelmingly that it is now estimated that by 2010, 70 percent of all online content will be user...
