Jyri Engestrom has posted this presentation about social objects. What most struck me was his argument that a lot of talk about social networks focuses on the links between people but doesn’t attend to the social objects through which they connect. Successful entrepreneurs are good at creating objects that are obligatory points of passage, or obpops. Google is – for now – a phenomenal obpop.
It also links to this Youtube satire on the friendships Facebook offers:
Hat tip: Adriana
Welcome to the Ourhouse Weblog. Blogging is something I’ve become increasingly interested in. Earlier this month I set up the Beyond Branding Blog which is
The competitive streak in me means I need to keep with Tony Goodson’s blog. The struggles of learning to speak “Movable Type” and thoughts on the nature of blogging.
Earlier today I was writing about passion brands and the power of community. I got a small but interesting example of this principle in action when I visited Ton Zijltra’s blog to find that he’s opened a separate blog on his planned abandonment of Microsoft.
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking – and worrying – about collaboration. I think the ability to collaborate effectively is becoming ever more essential
The AntiBrand: blackSpot sneakers, a project by Adbusters attacks Nike directly. In doing so they take on what has become one of the great icons
My friend Olaf Brugman has invited me to take part in a workshop in Brussels on October 29th. It looks set to be an interesting
The Church of the Customer blog quotes an NY Times interview with David Bowie who says: I’m fully confident that copyright for instance, will no
I’ve just started to suffer from Spam comments the latest effort by these wretches to publicise their sites. They basically post fatuous comments to weblogs
Like many others I’ve been getting more and more bogus comments from Spammers promoting their sites. So, having delayed for a while, I’ve just installed
At the NGO conference (blogged yeserday and the day before) I met Martin Roell a German blogger and e-business guru. He’s blogged the event in
Hugh sent me a freebie copy of his latest book Evil Plans. After a diet of rather heavy business books, this was a welcome fast read. In the film, Local
Not that I care about these things he wrote disingenously, but I appear to have reached the exalted status of 251 on Feedster’s top 500 this month. Funny that as
Dan Pink gives a punchy TED talk about the adverse impact of incentives. He reports studies that show that offering incentives will increase performance for routine tasks. But for activities
Dave Snowden has a great post on the folly of KM professionals’ running claim that failures such as 9/11 and Katrina are in effect failures of knowledge management. Words like
