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I first met Henry Mason after he had (for all the wrong reasons) a very tough act to follow. It was late in the day, the crowd was low energy and beer was sitting in eyeshot, yet he managed to captivate a feisty audience with a rousing speech about the future of media and consumer trends.As Global Head of Research and Managing Partner of Trendwatching.com (a leading global trend firm) you’d expect a certain ability but Henry went beyond knowing ...
Google's core business is all about finding you what you need to know. The company has become synonymous with searching the internet, so it is no surprise that it will always try to innovate in that area. The next step in search? Well, that would be Knowledge Graph.When Google launched its latest version of search, it said it was trying to build a search of the future that taps into the "collective intelligence of the web and understands the world ...
We all know about the king of social networking: Facebook, with its billion plus users. Then there is Twitter, Linkedin, Google+ and the major Chinese social networks like Renren and Sina Weibo. Then there are the outsider social networks, the medium sized ones which have strong brand recognition -- that's where StumbleUpon plays.Most people won't be able to explain what a discovery engine is, but you might find that some of those people are part of StumbleUpon's 25-million ...
Evernote is cool -- ask any one of its 15-million monthly active users. True to the company's slogan, "Remember Everything", the suite of applications designed for note taking and archiving is on top of the world.The more successful it gets, the more headlines it grabs -- like the recent password reset due to a security breach, which caused some commotion among users. But that's not keeping the company down. Users are growing with India and the UK hitting one ...
Google is pretty good at knowing what we need before we do. From a company that seems to continuously innovate, the launch of Google Now was nothing if not inspired.Google Now is the internet giant's offering in the hotly contested intelligent personal assistant space. The Android-only service is an extension of the OS' native Google Search app, using a natural language user interface to answer questions, make recommendations, and perform actions by delegating requests to a set ...
Anyone working in Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) will tell you it has a bad rep. But does it have a bad rap? SEO is the process of trying to make a website as visible as possible in your search results. Love it or hate it, SEO is important and if you run a website or have a brand that you want noticed, you want good SEO.
Google is out to get black hat SEO practitioners and poor quality content, ...
We currently live in the world of three screens. We are connected to our PCs, mobile phones and tablets, and soon there will be more screens in our tech-obsessed world than we can imagine, says top Google exec Meir Brand.
Brand is fascinated with how technology will allow us to merge the physical world and the digital world. He believes that "man and machine are kept separate now. But in ten years, the technology will be a physical part of ...
In 2009, Nike and the Livestrong Foundation made a big splash during the Tour de France with the Nike Chalkbot: a robot that sprayed inspirational messages from people across the globe on the road as cyclists rode along the famous bicycle route.In order to make this possible, the relatively new innovation studio Deeplocal was brought on board. The company created the software that powered the message machine, a project that propelled the company onto the world stage.According ...
CNN accounted for about 13% of all social media mentions, according to trend analytics firm Trendrr earlier this year. That's impressive. Cable News Network is one of the largest news networks in the world, so it needs to be at the forefront of news innovation by adapting the changing nature of reporting.
Today's current news climate requires all news organisations to have a social media strategy. CNN is very active on social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare ...
Following on from Sarah Britten’s well received post about Caspar Lee, the tremendously successful young YouTube vlogger, we managed to secure a one-on-one interview with the man himself. More than just a vlogger, Lee is actually a YouTube partner, meaning he derives an income through advertising on his channel: impressive for an 18-year-old from a small town.In a Google+ Hangout (video seemingly the most appropriate channel), we got to grips with how Lee has achieved the success he has ...
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