Trends in the Living Networks

OCTOBER 14, 2006

One of the many insights on this fascinating trip was how mobiles are leapfrogging the Internet across Africa. Across the continent, and even in relatively developed South Africa, fixed broadband Internet is difficult to access, expensive, and unreliable. Mobiles have already leapfrogged fixed line telephony across the continent.

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MARCH 7, 2007

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Playing with new event formats: Mobile Meshwalk | Main | The vast potential of Internet radio is in jeopardy » Internet advertising revenue soars – how much further to go?

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AUGUST 19, 2007

Of course, this is not to say that there aren’t plenty of company employees working on improving their social lives while they draw a salary. has consistently shown that employees’ personal networks are in many cases the single biggest factor impacting their productivity and ability to contribute to the company.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2008

One of the enquiries was from AVN, a publishing company that focuses on the adult entertainment industry, wanting insights into where their world was heading. Similarly, many a relationship has been terminated because one party (quite often, a woman, it seems) finds evidence of physical or virtual infidelity in sent messages.

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APRIL 24, 2008

and videoconferencing | Main | Living Networks - Chapter 2: Emerging Technologies – Free Download and Commentary » The next phase of the Internet will be about creating value from the WOW (Wide Open Web) Ross Dawson, April 24, 2008 4:19 AM US PT So far the primary theme of the Web 2.0 companies monetize their contributions?

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APRIL 9, 2008

He is Founding Chairman of four companies: professional services and venture firm Advanced Human Technologies , future and strategy consulting group Future Exploration Network , leading events firm The Insight Exchange , and influence ratings start-up Repyoot. Free chapters) Implementing Enterprise 2.0

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CTOvision

JULY 9, 2014

The Internet is overloaded with definitions, characteristics, and benefits; however, few discussions synthesize all three of these topics in one place. Oracle, Teradata, IBM, SAP, Microsoft, EMC, etc). The term “Big Data” has become synonymous with this evolution. and “What is its business value?”. What is Big Data?

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Trends in the Living Networks

DECEMBER 17, 2008

Many companies will take advantage of the downturn to use technology in innovative ways. Our attitudes to what is acceptable behavior by the government and companies will rapidly evolve. Sophisticated and with a social conscience, Gen Z has never lived without the internet or mobile phones. Companies become social.

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AUGUST 16, 2007

However Blodget continues to research the Internet industry on his blog Internet Outsider , where he has recently been writing provocatively titled posts such as Dead-tree media deathwatch: RIP Business 2.0 , Running the Numbers: Why Newspapers are Screwed , and T he Great Advertising Share Shift: Google Sucks Life Out of Old Media.

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The Verge

MAY 4, 2021

Shopify is one of those companies that makes the modern internet go — it makes software that allows businesses of all sizes to set up online stores, and from there it can handle everything from shipping orders to financing loans for expansion. Shopify is doing great as a company. We wanted to sell snowboards on the internet.

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Trends in the Living Networks

JULY 14, 2011

From its birth in the early 1970s, when Tony and Maureen Wheeler found so many people asking how they’d travelled overland from London to Melbourne that they decided to publish a book about it, the company has grown and repositioned itself neatly in the flow economy. Every company and industry will face different challenges and opportunities.

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DECEMBER 13, 2007

In the context of market opportunities for the biggest enterprise software firm of them all, SAP, Sigurd Rinde wrote (in part): A Business Process is any process, sequential work or activity, that happens in an organisation. Sigurd proposed this sector as a massive opportunity for SAP. (Selected references at the bottom of the post.)

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JANUARY 21, 2008

He is Founding Chairman of four companies: professional services and venture firm Advanced Human Technologies , future and strategy consulting group Future Exploration Network , leading events firm The Insight Exchange , and influence ratings start-up Repyoot. Click on the map below to get the full pdf.

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AUGUST 1, 2007

He is Founding Chairman of four companies: professional services and venture firm Advanced Human Technologies , future and strategy consulting group Future Exploration Network , leading events firm The Insight Exchange , and influence ratings start-up Repyoot. Free chapters) Implementing Enterprise 2.0

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AUGUST 22, 2007

story and some of the more balanced media response , Sophos, another internet security company, has released survey results saying that half of all companies restrict access to Facebook. The issue for now is more whether it is appropriate to allow staff access to Facebook on company time.

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JULY 1, 2007

The author is Mark Pesce , noted for being the co-inventor of VRML (Virtual Reality Markup Language) (which I was a big fan of when it came out – I wrote about it in my first book which came out in 2000) and his immoderate thoughts on the future of media – in other words an extremely credible commentator on an often muddied field.

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OCTOBER 25, 2006

Some companies -- like Nestle, Unilever and Procter & Gamble -- have been doing some scenario planning, but its been directed toward competition and technology. These sorts of commodity risks have escaped the scrutiny of many companies. Free chapters) Implementing Enterprise 2.0

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NOVEMBER 29, 2006

The first ascii web browser was created in 1992, the first graphic web browser was invented in 1993, and in 1994 the big debate was whether commercial use of the Internet should be allowed. Since 2001 a new approach to tapping the potential of the internet, dubbed Web 2.0, Thus began what is now dubbed Web 1.0, Visibility.

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AUGUST 27, 2007

For now, I thought I’d post an article I originally published 10 years ago in the October 1997 issue of Company Director magazine. Information overload is a fact of life for company directors, senior managers, and all professionals. Everything I wrote is still completely valid. John Naisbitt, author of Megatrends.

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MAY 23, 2007

Sponsors and partners include BEA Systems , KPMG , Australian Venture Capital Assocation , Australian Information Industry Association , Department of State and Regional Development , Australian Interactive Media Industry Assocation , Smart Internet Technology CRC , and Innovation Bay. The latest information on the event is here.

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Trends in the Living Networks

MARCH 28, 2008

Among other activities, it actively encourages interactive media companies, gaming ventures, and content development. more ] Five reasons why Turkey is one of the hottest Internet markets in the world (7) Ekim Naz?m Initiatives include media education , supporting PC games , and developing a research ecosystem.

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Trends in the Living Networks

JANUARY 28, 2008

We are already at the point where virtually all large organizations have some kind of recognized activities in the space, even if it’s just a department trialling a wiki. more ] Five reasons why Turkey is one of the hottest Internet markets in the world (7) Ekim Naz?m Third is that using Web 2.0

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Trends in the Living Networks

MAY 27, 2006

However the next years and decades will, step by step, move towards games being virtually indistinguishable from our everyday world. The VirtuSphere takes gaming to a whole new level, allowing users to walk inside a virtual space “while being totally immersed” — through the head-mounted display system.

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JULY 16, 2006

We talked about the future in a broad ranging interview and talkback session spanning 40 minutes, covering topics including the digital divide, video everywhere, social response to technology, commoditization, doing business virtually, infinite content, virtual environments, and even teleportation.

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Trends in the Living Networks

FEBRUARY 4, 2007

Ross Dawson, February 4, 2007 2:06 PM US PT An article in Britain’s Sunday Telegraph says that a consortium of major mobile phone companies - Vodafone, France Telecom, Telefonica, Deutsche Telekom, Hutchison Whampoa, Telecom Italia, and Cingular – are planning to meet in secret to discuss creating a mobile phone search engine.

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A Screw's Loose

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Then you have the personal firewall that is centrally managed by IT and let’s not forget that you are hooked up to a proxy server if you try to access the internet. companies that are at the MAM stage have an advantage moving forward. order to be competitive though, a company is going to have to open. This is why. We usually do.

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Trends in the Living Networks

APRIL 10, 2008

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Mobile social networking, meaning virtual networks bringing people physically together, will inevitably be a pervasive application | Main | More media coverage of Enterprise 2.0

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Trends in the Living Networks

MAY 28, 2007

At the time I wrote about how mobiles are allowing Africa to leapfrog the fixed internet , and also about the potential and challenges of South Africa. Even landline phones are often not available, let alone fixed internet or other interactive devices. As a result, mobile banking and a vast array of mobile services are taking off fast.

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Trends in the Living Networks

FEBRUARY 27, 2008

As for your local public library branch, which has become in the last decade a low-rent Internet cafe without the cafe? more ] Five reasons why Turkey is one of the hottest Internet markets in the world (7) Ekim Naz?m Harvards stacks arent going anywhere. It might not be around in 2019. Free chapters) Implementing Enterprise 2.0

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FEBRUARY 28, 2008

One application for the finance/ admin position included the following in her career history: XXXXXXX Finance Service in China(a professional financial consulting company, handling tax dodging sensibly and regular accounting operating for clients) As an accounting clerk/ admin officer Ahem. Free chapters) Implementing Enterprise 2.0

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MAY 31, 2007

companies and applications are mapped out across two major dimensions: Content Sharing to Recommendations/ Filtering ; and Web Application to Social Network. more ] Five reasons why Turkey is one of the hottest Internet markets in the world (7) Ekim Naz?m . * Ten definitions for Web 2.0 Landscape * Sixty two prominent Web 2.0

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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. The latent demand is there, but it is up to Australian telecommunications companies to come up with a useful product at reasonable price," Mr Dawson said.

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Trends in the Living Networks

APRIL 15, 2008

He is Founding Chairman of four companies: professional services and venture firm Advanced Human Technologies , future and strategy consulting group Future Exploration Network , leading events firm The Insight Exchange , and influence ratings start-up Repyoot. Free chapters) Implementing Enterprise 2.0

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OCTOBER 16, 2007

Now, let us look at the response or the need for professional services, what are the reasons that companies need to adopt such professional services? And how much as advanced technology like the internet added to the development of professional services? RD: Well, the internet has changed it in many ways.

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JANUARY 30, 2007

Organizations such as Cisco, Boeing, SAP, and others are ardent proponents and users of value networks approaches. more ] Five reasons why Turkey is one of the hottest Internet markets in the world (7) Ekim Naz?m Over the last few years the field has grown rapidly, with now a real critical mass of tools and real-life examples.

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Trends in the Living Networks

OCTOBER 14, 2007

He is Founding Chairman of four companies: professional services and venture firm Advanced Human Technologies , future and strategy consulting group Future Exploration Network , leading events firm The Insight Exchange , and influence ratings start-up Repyoot. Free chapters) Implementing Enterprise 2.0

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DECEMBER 19, 2007

He is Founding Chairman of four companies: professional services and venture firm Advanced Human Technologies , future and strategy consulting group Future Exploration Network , leading events firm The Insight Exchange , and influence ratings start-up Repyoot. Free chapters) Implementing Enterprise 2.0

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