Psychology As Cars Turn Into Computers, Should We Buy or Rent? I drove the best car ever made for twelve years… until last week [It was a BMW 3-series!] Once a year, my mechanic would look at me as if
Marketing Turn Your Zombie Website Into A Growth Machine Zombies don’t have hearts. Zombie websites aimlessly drone on about themselves … and drive us away. This approach might have duped a few back in the 1990s but it certainly
Technology 'Old' Europe Fights Back as Software Eats Taxis NEVER again! Gatwick airport. Midnight. Exhausted kids with school the next day. And… NO sign of the cab I’d pre-booked two weeks earlier. That was last Summer.
Psychology Should Our Children be Encouraged to Fail? The only reason I get a newspaper these days is to line the cat litter tray – even then I use the London Evening Standard, because it’s free.
Technology Betting on Bitcoin's Future If you’d bet $5k on Bitcoin 2 years ago, you’d be able to sell them today for around $634,800, a return of 12,596%. $5k
Marketing Marketing Is Storytelling Wondering why your crappy website, ad or Facebook page isn’t working? The thing is, nobody is interested in you, or what you have to offer. Features? Boring. Discounts? Desperate. Benefits? Meh. So, what the hell does work? Stories… Watch this three-minute
50 Why ‘Project Managers’ are Key to Your Company’s Survival (I first published this article over at Medium.com) I don’t care if your company is a tech startup or a Fortune 100, unless it’s fast, fluid and flexible* it’s not going to survive. Unless you and your company learns to
Customer Service Don't Ignore People Who Pay for Your Help This is a true story. And it’s making me nervous. How could a company with a great product end up with customers talking openly about jumping ship. On their own website! It starts with… Why haven’t they updated the product
27 Music to Help You Work It never happens, but I’ve always preferred to work in silence. When I worked in a cubicle, there was the constant sound of chatter, ringing phones, and manic keyboard pecking. Since I’ve worked from home, if it’s not the
Cricket What do Cricket, Technology & the Truman Show have in Common? Cricket has to be one of the most conservative and traditional of games. Nothing could be further from the clutches of technology… Yet, as I write this, I’m listening to the closing stages of the first of this year’s
Psychology Escape Your Truman Show (Master technology & take control of your life) It was Douglas Rushkoff who wrote the book Program or be Programmed. This is my take...
58 How an Independent Artist Hit the UK Top 5 Alex Day, an unsigned British pop musician, has hit the UK Top 40 charts three times: at number 4, 15 and 25. He did it without the help of a major record label. He is 100% independent, and Forbes magazine say he represents the
Creativity Can We Save Our Kids from Education's Death Valley? If you don’t know TED, then you really ought to let your mind out more. I still remember when I first discovered TED about 3 years ago. It’s a conference devoted to ideas worth spreading, where people with a track
Lean It's Not Just Startups That Need To Be Lean ‘As the boxer Mike Tyson once said about his opponents’ prefight strategies: “Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.”’ This is a line from Steve Blank’s new article in the Harvard Business Review (HBR). His point
Artist A Way For Artists & Creatives to Collaborate, Share & Build Influence? How does an ’emerging’ artist, designer, musician, photographer, film maker or fashion designer find fellow artists and creatives to collaborate with? How do you even get a shot at working with big established artists or brands? Is there a way to grow
Social Era Bring Your Invention to Life - The Quirky Way You have an idea for something new. An invention. Something that could change the world. But where do you start? How do you know you’re not deluded? Blinded by your own enthusiasm. How do you know if others will buy into your
Dreamforce Are You & Your Company Going Through A Social Revolution? Last week saw this years gathering, known as Dreamforce, of a large slice of the cloud community. The event is organised by Salesforce – the world’s largest cloud (‘no software’) software company. At the keynote by Marc Benioff, chairman &
85 The 2012 Olympic Games & The Digital Era Photo by CarlosVanVegas Who could fail to be moved by the coming together of the copper petals (one for each country) into a single cauldron of hope, light and purpose? The Opening Ceremony told the story of how the Industrial Revolution, which started in
Avinash Kaushick Big Data: What Is It & Why Does It Matter? There’s a huge amount of heat around Big Data today but very little light. To me, the questions to be asking are: What exactly is Big Data? How can it help us improve the bottom-line and make the world a better place?
Blackberry Keep Innovating or Die Like RIM There was a time, not so long ago, when the Blackberry was the go-to shiny new object. What happened? Well, they stopped innovating and the rest of their world passed
Networked economy Are We On the Brink of The Networked Society? Caterina Fake, cofounder of Flickr and a bevy of other internet entrepreneurs discuss the opportunities being opened up by technology as we enter the Networked Society. This 20 minute video
29 Cross-post Your WordPress Content to Facebook Image by Stig Nygaard Do you want to automatically cross-post your WordPress content to Facebook? If so, you’re in luck because yesterday Facebook launched a new WordPress plugin to do just that, plus more: Cross-post to your Facebook Timeline and the Facebook
KPCB How the Internet Continues to Change Everything In case you’re still in any doubt about the scale & pace of change being wrought by the Internet then here are a few slides from Mary Meeker&
29 Why Your Local Business Needs to be on Google+ Local & Not Google Places If you run a local business and you had a Google Places page then you were already ahead of much of your competition. Having a Google Places page used to be a smart move (if done right) not least because when the eight out
29 Put Your Small Business on the Map: With BatchGeo What if… How useful would an online map be for your customers? Driving directions or a store locator perhaps: with popup details at each place? What if a customer could use a map on your site to route them in their car using
