Trends in the Living Networks

JULY 30, 2007

About Ross Dawson Keynote Speaking/Strategy AHT Group Future Exploration Network The Insight Exchange Repyoot Recent Media Appearances « Are virtual worlds an over-hyped waste of time for marketers? 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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JUNE 18, 2008

Applications list is now officially launched - the full list is below, after appearing this morning in a feature section in BRW magazine on Web 2.0. Has licensed the platform in Australia, Canada and Germany, and is also run as a stand-alone social network. Software being sold and licensed in a number of overseas countries.

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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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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. PM Network magazines lead article on virtual teamwork (440KB), featuring Ross Dawson on the cover. This blog is licensed under a Creative Commons License.

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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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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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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. Free chapters) Implementing Enterprise 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. 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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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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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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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. Which reports, newspapers, magazines, journals, news services and television programmes do you need to look at regularly? Everything I wrote is still completely valid. Select your information sources.

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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. Free chapters) Implementing Enterprise 2.0

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MAY 7, 2008

Free chapters) Implementing 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.[ more ] Six ways technology is transforming small business (1) Greytip Online wrote:When we talk about productivity and.[

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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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APRIL 26, 2008

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. The versioning term gains more and more power in society, where music albums, news anchors, non-ICT magazines, papers etc use this "2.0"

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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 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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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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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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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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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. Free chapters) Implementing Enterprise 2.0

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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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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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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. Free chapters) Implementing Enterprise 2.0

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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. Free chapters) Implementing Enterprise 2.0

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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. Free chapters) Implementing Enterprise 2.0

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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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SEPTEMBER 8, 2007

The critical enabler here will be reasonable pricing of mobile data. While Second Life already provides a quasi-3D environment, a couple of steps beyond is where we will use video glasses, gloves, and other immersive interfaces so that we will experience actually being there, rather than seeing ourselves in a virtual world.

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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. Free chapters) Implementing Enterprise 2.0 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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Dataconomy

MAY 18, 2023

Gone are the days when we relied solely on traditional interior designers or spent countless hours browsing through magazines and websites for inspiration. AI interior design tools offer advanced 3D modeling capabilities, allowing designers to create virtual representations of their ideas Upload an image of your room. How does it work?

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Trends in the Living Networks

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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JANUARY 21, 2008

Remember that our trend maps are generally for stimulation rather than being taken too seriously… :-) And as usual, the trend map is released on a Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons license , so if you disagree with the trends we’ve chosen or think you can improve on the map, feel free to play with it!

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APRIL 24, 2008

While XML is still not highly visible other than to software developers, and other data interchange formats have arisen, it still provides the core foundation of the networked world of today. Seems to fit in with standards, and open data, which semantic technologyies and languages are both driving and supporting.

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OCTOBER 26, 2007

Accountability and measurability We dont think decisions to spend on marketing will be made at board level or below if they dont have the data to support them. Tracking data will be critical. There is limited pricing power in consumer markets, so corporaions are emphasizing topline growth, as well as limiting costs.

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Chief Seattle Greek Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

Here are some examples: commercial companies go whole hog to adopt cloud technologies while government still operates data centers and even builds new ones ( State of Washington , 2014). Or rather, I am virtually certain 2017 will NOT be the year for chatbots, artificial intelligence and natural language processing. I’m not so sure.

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JANUARY 23, 2007

» The magic of data visualization for everyone Ross Dawson, January 23, 2007 8:32 PM US PT Every day I am amazed afresh by the transformative power of the Web. Anyone can then either reuse the data sets, create new visualizations, add comments, or blog about the visualizations. Think if this gets opened up!

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