You have heard about spimes. They are a new class of objects, originally envisioned by Bruce Sterling, author and Wired columnist, who also invented the term by compressing 'space' and 'time'. Spimes are aware of their environment, they know where they are, and when they are, and keep track of ...
Here is the slidecast of my lecture from yesterday at the California School of International Management
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David Orban
"Strategic Marketing Evolves - The changing role of brands in the network age"
Disintermediation is immediacy. After a hiatus of ten thousand years, during which more and more sophisticated ...
Dealipedia is launching today, aiming to apply wikinomics to the collection and mashing up of information about corporate deals, including financing, IPOs, mergers and acquisitions, and even bankruptcies.
So many times there are announcements of interesting deals that are shrouded behind a 'details were kept private' veil. What Dealipedia is betting ...
I spent this weekend in Sebastopol, where I took part in the gathering of 30 open government advocates to develop a set of principles of open government data. The meeting was designed to develop a more robust understanding of why open government data is essential to democracy.
The Internet is the ...
I created an experimental video channel using Mogulus, and, connections/firewalls permitting, there will be a live video stream from the "Italy Silicon Valley Experience" (pdf of the program) event today at 6PM CET, on top of live blogging.
You can connect to davidorban.com/video right now to check if you can see ...
17.20 Chris Anderson is in Milan at a conference, organized by 'The Ruling Companies', and a bunch of bloggers have been invited to cover the event live, so here I am, sitting in the first row, and listening to what is being said. I am actually curious to see if ...
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'The Long Tail' is the title of a book by Chris Anderson, editor of Wired, and of an apparently new phenomenon which many of us following the online worlds have come to understand from Chris's blog of the same name 'The Long Tail'. Put succintly, the concept of ...
A couple of weeks ago I participated in the Virtual Worlds Forum conference in London, and I have now put online the video of the panel at which I spoke, as kindly allowed by Sasha Frieze who put the conference together with great results:
"From e-tail to v-business: are virtual ...
Yesterday it was great talking at the Web2.0 Expo in Berlin. Right after Tim O'Reilly's keynote, in the session called Ignite, in the large conference room packed with the over 2000 delegates, I spoke about the Metasocial Web:
Follow the link to the Metasocial Web video on YouTube if you don't ...
Well, that was fast. I thought of the Metasocial Web a few days ago, and looks like I will be delivering a speech about it at Web2.0 Ignite in Berlin tomorrow.
A lot of what the Metasocial Web should be is in flux, naturally, so it will be good to get ...
