My mate Jason runs the excellent and very useful Socialfresh.com and I just wrote this thing for them. I originally thought I was just going to transcribe The Importance of Being Awesome Mashable talk, but as I wrote it became slightly different, focused more specifically on the nature of awesomeness, in content sharing terms.  I especially…

I tweeted this a week or 2 ago and a bunch of people responded on Twitter saying that it had happened to them. And then Coca-Cola decided to pull the cans citing consumer confusion and that.  All well and good in the age of very low latency consumer feedback, especially about iconic packaging.  But I…

There are a couple of mega trends that have been forming for some time now. Content aggregation and curation – in a world of infinite content, brands and people need to find ways to become signals in the noise:  see  http://www.percolate.com Making ATOMS from BITS – turning digital things into physical things – like the MAKERBOT http://www.makerbot.com/ …

is the name of the talk I gave at the Mashable Media Summit.  It's about how important being awesome is and will be, for media products [although I'm leaning into a specific, slightly archaic use of the word, when it meant something more akin to terrible which, itself, meant something a bit different]. They've just…

My mate Peter very kindly invited me to WSJ Idea Market event last night.  Peter just wrote the rather excellent book "Little Bets". – a book which examines innovation and creativity at a number of very innovative companies and looks to dismantle the myth of big ideas in favor of lots of little bets - …

Te dx technologies of identity http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=tedx-technologiesofidentity-111110091439-phpapp01&stripped_title=te-dx-technologies-of-identity&userName=farisyakob View more presentations from Faris Yakob. So I did a little talk at TEDx Silicon Alley. As is usually the case nowadays, we were asked to talk about technology and creativity and that. The specific brief was unexpected uses of technology. As I suspected people were mostly talking about…

 …is the name of a regular feature in the International Journal Of Advertising.  [SIDENOTE: Do you read it? Did you know about it? I'm increasingly keen to try and bridge the gap between the very interesting acadedmic research around advertising and the industry of advertising. Seems like we could learn a lot from each other.]…

I'm speaking at TEDx Silicon Alley on Thursday [October 27th] in NYC.  The theme is creative and unexpected uses of technology. I'm thinking of something creative and unexpected to talk about. Since this is tomorrow I had better do that tonight.  I shall let you know what I come up with.

I'm doing a panel Tuesday evening up at BloombergNYC to discuss Creativity [in] 2020. Now 'creativity' will be exactly the same in 2020. Because, well, creativity is a process – an approach to the interaction of the world and people's minds. Creativity is the faculty which performs operations on the inputs – the only thing…

My mate Marc has just released a book called the Anti Social Network Book – a place to store all the thoughts you don't want to share. In many ways it resembles a note book… The Anti-Social Network  A Place For All The Thoughts, Ideas and Plans You Don’t Want to Share Now there’s a…