Powerful structures for product-driven organisations
A few weeks ago, on the occassion of the company's tenth anniversary, Marissa Mayer - Google's VP, Search Products & User Experience - shared her thoughts on the future of search. The most striking feature of the analysis is a kind of quasi-religious fervour with which Mayer takes on her mission to extend the scope… Continue reading Search as the new science
An interesting comment on the last post came back to a topic which I seem to be asked, or ask myself, more and more often. If social media increasingly leads to closed groups, and tomorrow's media consumers are increasingly avoiding the mass media, what will happen to mass-participation media events, and don't we as a culture lose… Continue reading No one to hear you scream
There's been a fun discussion on Gaping Void the last couple of days in response to Hugh's post Social objects for beginners. In particular, Rachel Bellow weighed in with: 'Social objects are the particular manifestation of shared meaning, right? So that suggests there's a drive underlying all these manifestations... that the social object is not,… Continue reading Fun and games
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