Humane Brands
Joel: Brands may never be human, but they can become more humane; http://eicker.at/HumaneBrands
Joel: Brands may never be human, but they can become more humane; http://eicker.at/HumaneBrands
Daitch: Facebook can not be trusted. Orwellian takeover of a single platform is a dystopian future; http://j.mp/b9EFBm
Weinberger, CM (115): We do not know what the Web is for but we have adopted it faster than any technology since fire.
Cluetrain, the new normal: We built the greatest encyclopedia world wide in our spare time.
Cluetrain, the new normal: Flickr, Google, and so many others have become verbs.
Cluetrain, the new normal: Creating, watching, rating, recommending, and talking about homemade videos undermines TV.
The NYT on online reputation: Your customers are talking about you – and the whole world is listening; http://tr.im/uHTU
Cluetrain, the new normal: The small actions of many individuals can be aggregated in crowdsourcing applications.
Cluetrain, the new normal: While some products of course remain scarce, information about products is super-abundant.
Cluetrain, the new normal: Via social media, companies are far more likely to disclose possible future directions.
Daitch: “In a landscape of nomadic, transient social-media users, Facebook could be supplanted if they don’t change for the good of the people who use their services. Who knows, some bloggers have already taken a stand by making radical suggestions on how old media can take the mantle back. But that’s not all. The fight for social networking and privacy has picked up momentum within the developer community. Though just a blip the size of the tip of a needle, a start-up called Diaspora, founded by a group of college-aged developers, is thinking ambitiously enough to take Facebook on, using privacy as the centerpiece of their endeavor. Now, if only Mark Zuckerberg could identify with that.“