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In the last column I wrote about the fact that humanity has entered the Transformation Decade and defined transformation. I also wrote about Legacy Thinking and how we all tend to live in the present and look ahead to the future through the conceptual filters of the past. Both concepts were relative to the reality Continue Reading →

I am interested in imperfections, quirkiness, insanity, unpredictability. That’s what we really pay attention to anyway. We don’t talk about planes flying; we talk about them crashing.  –Tibor Kalman, graphics designer I have not been writing as much as I used to. An overview of much of my writing would reveal a highly critical point-of-view of conventional Continue Reading →

(Content originally posted on HLNTV.) Are you surprised that Facebook wants to enter the online banking business? Or become an online stock trader? Or be a place where you can find your next job? Or let you share all your musical likes? Or be your local movie theater? Some might even ask, “Is Facebook taking over the world?” The Continue Reading →

What’s in a meme? The Urban Dictionary has a nice definition: “an idea, belief or belief system, or pattern of behavior that spreads throughout a culture either vertically by cultural inheritance (as by parents to children) or horizontally by cultural acquisition (as by peers, information media, and entertainment media).”  In 1976, Richard Dawkins created the Continue Reading →

Three years ago, the word “gamification” would have turned up zero Google results. Today, that same search yields 13 million entries. Clearly, the idea of using game thinking and mechanics to engage audiences and solve problems is gaining appeal. Tech companies like Oracle and Salesforce have made sizable gamification acquisitions, while social infrastructure start-ups like Gigya ($15.3 Continue Reading →

Cybercrime has taken a dangerous turn heralding the emergence of a new generation of attacks focused on corporate and government espionage. These attacks are targeted and persistent leading to leakage of vital state secrets and critical corporate data. These threats have been labeled as Advanced Persistent Threats (APT). A number of recent high profile attacks Continue Reading →

Social media recently reached a major tipping point – not in its number of users, but in the way consumers use social media. The fundamental difference in consumption between social media and mainstream media can now be summed up in one word: “active.” Until now, all media outlets have principally been consumed passively, e.g. watching Continue Reading →

Less than a month before NBC’s latest multichannel Summer Olympics exercise from London, it remains anyone’s guess how these games, with thousands of coverage hours spread across more NBC Universal-owned channels, will turn out in viewership. What you can conclude at this point, and we’ll do so in parlance of scoring a baseball game, is Continue Reading →

(Content originally published on KellerFay.) Everyone is talking about the massive amount of money that will be spent on advertising during this presidential election.  But a recent article in the New York Times illustrates that advertising alone will not win the campaign, and that organized, person-to-person persuasion remains critically important. Entitled, “Obama Campaign Banks On High-Tech Ground Game to Continue Reading →

Big security vendors have been pushing the same technology for over 25 years. Yet every day these technologies are proven to be ineffective and easily breached. If you’re in charge of security at your company and you’re using anti-virus and tokens and you think you’re safe, this is your wake-up call. Week after week of Continue Reading →