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DECEMBER 17, 2008

With increased access to online video technology, and mobile data plans getting cheaper, sending video updates of our every move will seem normal. October 2004 (1). September 2004 (2). May 2004 (2). February 2004 (1). January 2004 (1). This blog is licensed under a Creative Commons License.

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MAY 10, 2008

MySpace and Facebook are providing ways to open out users’ access to their data on those social networks. Chris Saad of the DataPortability Working Group writes : Both moves have rightly been attributed as ‘Data Portability’ plays - but neither of them are true ‘DataPortability’ implementations… yet.

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JULY 21, 2006

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « The social nature of Search 2.0 | Main | Mobile traffic data will pressure local radio » Being in two places at the same time Ross Dawson, July 21, 2006 5:02 PM US PT I really like this.

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APRIL 26, 2008

conference in 2004, it seems getting time to work out what will succeed Web 2.0. Wide Open Web (WOW) is the Internet based on open applications, open data, open access, creating value from the reuse and recombination of all its elements, with users controlling all their data. expo, now 3½ years since the first Web 2.0

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JULY 2, 2007

While this is being branded “behavioral targeting”, that depends on the richness of the data that Yahoo! SmartAds is only integrating data into a given advertisement. Certainly what is new here is the breadth of data which is being used, and how this is being pulled together. m Kaya wrote:Thank you Ross for the great articl.[

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MARCH 3, 2008

The second is the need for a more efficient means of inputting data on the device or through accessories such as fold-away keyboards. It quotes me as follows: According to Ross Dawson, chairman of the Future Networks think tank, other obstacles will also frustrate users looking for a portable mobile computing solution.

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JULY 30, 2007

The data supporting these charts was provided by Future of Media Summit Research Partner Nielsen//NetRatings , which was able to provide original and valuable insights by drawing on its global coverage. Demonstrably, low bandwidth Internet means people use it less, and for a narrower range of applications (there is specific data on that).

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OCTOBER 2, 2006

This harkens back to Canadian gold mining company Goldcorp’s initiative , whereby they publicly released the geological data on their properties, and set up a competition with prizes for whoever could give them the best recommendations on where to dig for gold. m Kaya wrote:Thank you Ross for the great articl.[

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FEBRUARY 16, 2008

will bring radical change in organisations Ross Dawson, February 16, 2008 2:53 AM US PT A very good article in Voice and Data magazine titled Enterprise 2.0 » Enterprise 2.0 m Kaya wrote:Thank you Ross for the great articl.[ more ] ABC TV interview: The future of direct selling (1) James wrote:Ross,I have followed your work fo.[

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AUGUST 21, 2006

The fundamental problem is in the way Australian mobile companies set up charges for data downloads compared with the US where most plans are based on on unlimited data downloads. This means people are far less likely to experiment with data transfers of multimedia based content," he said. This is hardly populist pricing.

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MAY 7, 2008

m Kaya wrote:Thank you Ross for the great articl.[ more ] ABC TV interview: The future of direct selling (1) James wrote:Ross,I have followed your work fo.[ more ] Six ways technology is transforming small business (1) Greytip Online wrote:When we talk about productivity and.[ m Kaya wrote:Thank you Ross for the great articl.[

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OCTOBER 14, 2006

Now phone companies are taking the opportunity to offer mobile data services and internet access. As a GSM-based continent, GPRS and HSDPA (which is very high speed - sometimes called 3.5G) are the core data platforms. Most phones have GPRS capabilities, making data access a core functionality available to mobile users.

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APRIL 9, 2008

The benefits are compelling, particularly when locational data is combined with profile data to enable friends and potential friends to connect. Perhaps the application Arrington refers to will break through after only mildly successful attempts so far. m Kaya wrote:Thank you Ross for the great articl.[

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AUGUST 23, 2007

He did what was previously unthinkable in the mining community—exposing all of their geological data online, and announcing a competition for the best analysis of where they should mine next. When attending an information technology seminar at MIT, McEwen drew inspiration from the session on open source software.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2008

Data in the report (with a few snippets available here ) includes market shares in online publishing (Google #1 at A$389 million with 89% growth), relative online ad revenues (e.g. Total revenue for the web 2.0 sector is small and there are no statistics available but a few companies have shown solid revenue streams.

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AUGUST 30, 2007

We would also have liked to have compared online classifieds with print classifieds, but it is difficult without financial data. We used traffic to the sites as a proxy for their prominence. Perhaps a project for our 2008 Report. The analysis is below – click on the charts for full details in the Report.

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AUGUST 30, 2007

We will crave ‘scientific’ data on the statistical probability of everything while simultaneously seeking out the personal stories of people, products, and organisations as some kind of faux reassurance. Most of all, perhaps we will be afraid of ‘them’ — people who comefrom somewhere else, and I don’t mean the planet Mars.

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OCTOBER 4, 2007

believe that some of the key elements of Web 3.0 – if it ever becomes a meaningful term – will include universal reputation systems and complete user control of application elements as well as data. Nova Spivack talks about RDF as well as the semantic web, and has an interesting chart to illustrate it.I But for now, Web 3.0

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AUGUST 1, 2007

In the enterprise you can map sales – you could for example, find out what the weather was and how It affected sales, and make it easier for anybody to bring together different data-sets,” says Dawson. This is where it all starts to be knowledge management.” For organisations, harnessing the capabilities of Web 2.0

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AUGUST 3, 2007

It doesn’t seem likely that we will get to open standards on sharing social network information, which the data standard FOAF (Friend of a Friend) aspires to, however if social networking players continue to provide deeper access to data, the same aim of open social networking platforms will be achieved.

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AUGUST 8, 2007

The relevant data and commentary from the report is below – click on any of the images below to get the complete Report with full details. One of the great things about having Nielsen//NetRatings as a research partner for the Report is that we were able to bring together global data in new ways to provide original research and insights.

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APRIL 24, 2008

Web companies new and old are announcing APIs that provide access to the data that resides on their site. About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Keynote at Tandberg Summit: weaving together Enterprise 2.0

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

Two things will be required for this: first, openness in how data can be used across social networking applications, meaning that individuals would feel absolutely no lock-in in using the system; and second, complete user control of that data, and user trust in how this works. m Kaya wrote:Thank you Ross for the great articl.[

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AUGUST 22, 2007

These figures may be correct, but without any methodology being released that Im aware of, they are certainly suspect given the biased source of the data. Apparently 43% block Facebook outright, while 7% more give access only when it is deemed relevant. m Kaya wrote:Thank you Ross for the great articl.[

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FEBRUARY 20, 2007

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Everyone’s data streams for everything visible everywhere | Main | Corporate blogging becomes Enterprise 2.0 m Kaya wrote:Thank you Ross for the great articl.[

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FEBRUARY 13, 2006

If some kind of effective deposit insurance through pooling or other mechanisms is put in place, in addition to superior credit assessment (not difficult given the paucity of the bank’s data and models), then there is no reason peer-to-peer banking will not over time become a competitive issue for mainstream banks.

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JUNE 27, 2008

Today all work is knowledge work because even the most manual of activities such as farmer digging post holes for a fence requires pre-planning using their spatial information system, the use of GPS to position the hole and entry of data when it’s done. December 2004. September 2004. August 2004. April 2004.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2005

If you can uncover and analyze the relationships between people, places, organisations, transactions, and more, rather than just data on each of them individually, anomalies and intriguing connections rapidly come to the surface. The Interquest platform itself helps integrate disparate data sources to enable effective network analysis.

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MAY 7, 2008

Today we are entering a new phase, with standards such as OpenID , DataPortability , Microformats , and others potentially establishing a platform for data and identity to be moved freely across applications and locations. XML has provided a platform for a series of initiatives and approaches to sharing information.

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AUGUST 24, 2006

The historical data in the chart comes from Bradford DeLong , an extremely interesting economist at UC – Berkeley. There was probably close to a book’s worth of material in the talk, so I won’t try to summarize it here – I’ll cover some of the issues raised in future blog posts and elsewhere. m Kaya wrote:Thank you Ross for the great articl.[

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FEBRUARY 4, 2007

This posts title is "European Mobile Companies dont understand theyre just data pipes." Thats exactly my point above, however there exists a strategic possibility to shift beyond being just pipes to doing more, and theyd be very foolish if they didnt make a good attempt to do so. m Kaya wrote:Thank you Ross for the great articl.[

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AUGUST 27, 2007

Herbert Simon, Economics Nobel-prize winner Technology is perhaps at the root of the advent of information overload, though it will also be part of the solution, by providing increasingly refined ways of filtering data to present the most valuable information to the right people. m Kaya wrote:Thank you Ross for the great articl.[

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MARCH 27, 2007

Laurie uses the data on media ownership maintained by the Australian Communications and Media Authority, and without any special industry knowledge, begins to pull out some very interesting insights. Laurie has followed up on that work by writing a great paper, New Ways to Explore Australian Media Ownership Opportunities and Threats.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2006

Web-wide and site-specific filtering There are two primary ways of implementating user filtering: taking data from across the web, and from within one site. Ratings provide explicit opinions on quality. Tags describe content with words, locations etc. m Kaya wrote:Thank you Ross for the great articl.[

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MARCH 28, 2007

Far better is to perform a social network analysis on the organizational group, so people have the data and comparisons to see how their networks are currently structured relative to their peers, and what they can do to enhance their own success. A significant body of research has been done into energy in networks over the last few years.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2007

The critical enabler here will be reasonable pricing of mobile data. As importantly, 3G mobile technologies that require less power and thus can be used for extended periods by handheld devices will enable access to the Internet by anyone anywhere. m Kaya wrote:Thank you Ross for the great articl.[

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MARCH 17, 2009

A few notes: These solutions focus on Microsoft Dynamics as the line-of-business data stores against which these performance management tools are reporting. . In their initiative code-named " Project Gemini ," they are offering a way to more efficiently analyze data from Excel: . SQL Server.

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