Heil Twitter!

noreply@blogger.com (AXNJXN23) — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 02:06:00 +0000

I've explained the social networking phenom—Twitter— to my friends dozens of times, but haven't yet been nearly as eloquent as this You Tube video that pokes fun of Twitter in its earlier stage financing. Enjoy!

Life Imitates Art or Vice Versa

noreply@blogger.com (AXNJXN23) — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 22:27:00 +0000

Check out this amazing still-picture animation from public walls in Germany. Yes, we are all connected!
MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

The Next 5000 Days of the Web

noreply@blogger.com (AXNJXN23) — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 04:08:00 +0000

To save you the calculation that's about 13.7 years. It may feel like a long time but a) it is about how long we have had the web and b) most of us can remember 1994 like it was yesterday. So Kevin Kelly's prediction about the future of the web is really just around the corner. His predictions about cloud computing, 'The One' as he calls it, and how it will connect us as one global brain are mind blowing but no more mind blowing than how today's world would have seemed if predicted 13 years ago. Everyone needs to watch this presentation.

One of his contentions is that everything on the planet will be on the web - every idea, opinion, artifact, piece of software, book, film, music and you and me....everything will be on the web and therefore accessible 24/7 to us all. All the devices we have, our pc's, phones, pda's etc, will just be windows that let us look into 'The One'. It sounds a bit like the Sci-Fi film 'The Matrix' and in a way it will be. Just like the web today feels a bit like the computer HAL in '2001 - A Space Odyssey' or Spok's computer on Star Trek and in a way, it is.

What are the implications for business? Well it would seem that the notion of on-line and off-line business will become very blurred just as the line between products and services has become blurred and goegraphic boundaries seem irrelevant.

I remember sitting in a one-room country school near Dalton, Nebraska in the fourth grade (circa 1971) daydreaming how the year 2000—a new millennium—seemed so far off and so improbable. Now, I can easily imagine the real-life "Matrix" before my 50th birthday. I even have the screensaver already installed. Power up, Neo!

MOOVOLOGY

Heil Twitter!

Life Imitates Art or Vice Versa

The Next 5000 Days of the Web