Stuart Glendinning Hall
Stuart Glendinning Hall's electic blog on subjects ranging from Bosnian pyramids to fat finger syndrome to coincidences to Kaka the Brazilian footballer.
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Latest Posts
Can Twitter help Apple’s shares rise?
- Dec 31, 2008
How’s this for a quick example of the power of Twitter I posted on ICAEW’s IT Counts today as my final day in the role of ION community manager, based on the simple premise of the value of being in the right place at the right time? The price of Apple shares have dipped recently [...]
Is the Long Tail dead?
- Dec 30, 2008
Hmm, seems like I missed the news last month that the so-called Long Tail is dead, which is interesting as I looked at the economics of music sales last month following a meeting with Russell Hart of Entertainment Media Research. Appears their Digital Music Report 2008, based on 1,500-strong survey, may support this trend in [...]
User-centred aggregation for 2009?
- Dec 29, 2008
Aggregation, aggregation, aggregation; hmm, I like the sound of that (thanks to confused of calcutta):
“We have had aggregation before. Past paradigm aggregation was about content owners and distribution and channels and audiences. Which allowed for words like authority and traffic. Which begat strange things like advertising.
“Next paradigm aggregation is about the owner of the power to [...]
Happy sociable Xmas
- Dec 25, 2008
If you want something that’s free, simple and fun to measure your brand metrics try HowSociable. It provides a search engine focused on web 2.0 spaces from twitter to flickr. I met the guys behind it (from the engineers at http://inuda.com) and they inspired me to try it out.
For India also read Brazil, when it comes to social media growth?
- Dec 22, 2008
OK, here’s a prediction for 2009, with help from Gauravonomics Blog:
“Social media outsourcing will we widely seen as the next big outsourcing opportunity for India. I have earlier written that social media outsourcing is the next big business opportunity for India and may already be leading the third wave of Indian outsourcing. In 2009, the [...]
The value of visuals
- Dec 18, 2008
A physical model of the S & P 500, Dow Jones, and NASDAQ price trend from January to November 2008, demonstrating the value of visuals along the way. Seeing is believing!
Building for the community by listening to the community
- Dec 17, 2008
A short history of the community which is Stocktwits; many of its community members participated in the recent VC funding round, which also echoes the theme of a recent post in IT Counts on member funding of online ventures, Is web 2.0 enabling a new kind of financing?:
“Since we started with a blank slate we were [...]
Crowdsource the world baby!
- Dec 16, 2008
Funny how I was just thinking about using the likes of Twitter to use the jargon ‘crowdsource’ answers to issues and needs. I recall no less a Twitterati than Laura Fitton saying how a request posted on Twitter quickly received a bunch of useful timely replies. And today Dennis Howlett has blogged on the same [...]
Social Media Predictions 2009
- Dec 15, 2008
My two cents worth? To beat the competition it helps to be in the right time, at the right place. Social media can help you do this. Or to put it another way, with a quote taken from a nice post on the subject of social networking & profit: “Relevancy is not enough in advertising. It’s [...]
I second that e-Motion
- Dec 14, 2008
Hmm, sounds interesting..
Six Apart has launched a preview of a new product called “Motion” that brings together a number of the year’s hottest trends – microblogging, aggregation, and portable identities – into one software package that is installed server side for users of Movable Type.
As you can see in the sample below, Motion features a [...]
