The call for media companies to make more out of data has been growing for a while now, but I’ve just seen something that beautifully shows how there’s amazing ways to use data for things most of us haven’t even thought about…
Like many cool things, when I first picked up on it via The Pirate’s [...]
The beauty of data and graffiti
January 9th, 2010 · Comments
Tags: data · innovation
When data can take your breath away
March 25th, 2009 · Comments
Wow.
Click through to Youtube to watch the video below in all it’s full-sized glory.
It’s a 24 hour observation of large airline flights condensed into just over a minute, found via Musings of an Opinionated Sod. And his closing sentence beautiful sums up how the ways we produce great content can, will, and has changed, whether [...]
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Why Twitter won’t replace Google search- but will overtake it
February 16th, 2009 · Comments
The reason why Twitter and real-time information will overtake Google search isn’t because of the aggregation of the ‘Thought stream’ as Techcrunch has proposed, as Lew Moorman has written, or even as Robert Scoble has written.
For some reason, we still think that a new service will totally replace the old, and that the two compete [...]
Tags: Digital Culture · social networks
The end of the VCR generation
January 27th, 2009 · Comments
Don’t worry, I haven’t slipped back 10 years to the launch of the DVD.
I’m just thinking about the speed of change in technology and business – inspired by an incredibly depressing trip to my local Blockbuster rental store on Saturday.
Two rows of rentals, a few racks of bargain-priced pre-owned DVDs and games and a few [...]
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