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Platforms beat applications.  OK -    So what is a platform?  The nomenclature of platforms and applications arise from technology …

This post is part three of a series raising questions about the mass adoption of social technologies. Here are links to part one and two. These posts will be opened to live discussion in an …

This post is part two of the series, “The Question Concerning Social Technology”. That appeared on Radar. Part one is here. These posts will be opened to live discussion in an upcoming …

The ability to pay attention, focus and strategically disconnect will be a winning discipline of the next generation of business leaders.

After writing my last article in Forbes on why businesses need to understand the Social Web I decided to put up a graphic representing differences between a traditional business mindset and the social mindset.   Full …

I spent much of last week on assignment in Las Vegas at the FastForward ’09 conference. FastForward is devoted to Search (more on that in the next post – along with a mindbending, Minority Report style video on the future of search). One of the highlights of the conference was this interview with Clay Shirky. He is one of the most incisive and articulate thinkers regarding the impacts that technology is having on society and business.

Generally speaking human beings consider possibility first and risk second… As a consequence we design for possibility and then retrofit for risk (if we are lucky). Drew Bartkiewicz of The Hartford has been considering data security and privacy in the age of social networks; an age marked by the explosion of personally identifiable information (PII) uploaded by users on blogs, video sites, social networks etc.

I am excited to be speaking at the upcoming Expo in New York -but more interested in hearing from this year’s line-up of speakers. Over the past few years the focus of the Expo …

Back in the early ’90s The Men’s Wearhouse’s George Zimmer would come on the radio and play audio recordings of happy customers. It always struck me that this was the quintessential, brilliant campaign. …

Here is a basic Web 2.0 overview (shortened due to time constraints) that I just gave to a group in Detroit:
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