Archive for the 'Trends' Category
February 14, 2010
By Roland Hachmann in Advergames, Communities, Digital Culture, Trends, Virtuality | 0 comments
In a blobpost by Leander I was linked to some statistics published by emarketer.com about the growth of Second Life in the last 3 years. It’s amazing to see how their user base has grown round about 30% since their “hype” in 2007, and time spent within the world increased by ca. 20% during the [...]
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January 21, 2010
By Roland Hachmann in Digital Culture, Ideas, Trends | 0 comments
There is a lot of talk about augmented reality. But the following stuff is way beyond anything I have seen sofar, it looks more like science fiction. Pranav Mistry about the thrilling potential of SixthSense Technology:
Let’s hope that technology makes it mainstream within this decade…
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January 20, 2010
By Roland Hachmann in Digital Culture, Digital Marketing, Ideas, Pop Culture, Social Media, Trends, Virtuality | 0 comments
Continuing on blogging about trends for the upcoming year/decade I just stumbled upon a paper by Edelman about ten ideas for the new decade.
Steve Rubel has an embedde scribd in his lifestream, as well as a short video about 4 of the main points underlying the 10 ideas mentioned in the paper:
Global (technology, consumers, applications, [...]
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January 13, 2010
By Roland Hachmann in Digital Marketing, Social Media, Trends, Web 2.0 | 0 comments
Happy new year (almost “belated”, since I haven’t posted anything in two weeks…). First post should hence be about new year resolutions. But not mine, which do in fact include the obvious (more sports, loose weight, etc.), but some listed by the viralblog:
1. Make Social Media marketing line budget item (so that it gets its [...]
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December 23, 2009
By Roland Hachmann in CGM, Digital Culture, Digital Marketing, Marketing, Mobile Marketing, Social Media, Trends, Web 2.0 | 0 comments
Every year around this time one can find many predictions about the new year in terms of tech & social media trends. So in order to get an overview myself, I have started this post with a collection and summary of the various predictions I could find:
Jackie Huba predicts that Social Media will get boring [...]
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November 7, 2009
By Roland Hachmann in Communities, Digital Culture, Digital Marketing, Ideas, Mobile Marketing, Social Media, Trends | 0 comments
You know it’s getting closer to a years end, when people start forecasting trends for the following year. This time it’s really early. It’s only the beginning of November and the first selection of six trends is already online.
David Armano writes about these 6 trends:
Social Media begins to look less social: as more people contribute [...]
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October 9, 2009
By Roland Hachmann in Blogs, RSS & Co., Communities, Digital Culture, Search Engine Stuff, Social Media, Trends, Web 2.0 | 0 comments
A guy named gary has produced a widget which demonstrates in “real time” the explosion of the social web. As you can see below, the rate of new content and interaction on the various social sites and applications is enormous! He writes about it:
I quickly built and coded the app based on data culled from a [...]
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September 21, 2009
By Roland Hachmann in Digital Culture, Mobile Marketing, Social Media, Trends, Videos | 0 comments
ok, it’s been around for a week already now, but nevertheless, this video again features some interesting stats:
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June 8, 2009
By Roland Hachmann in Ad News, Branding, Digital Marketing, Marketing, Online Advertising, Other Advertising, Social, Television, Trends, Web 2.0 | 0 comments
The year the media died… This video is great. almost 10 minutes long, like the original song by Don Mclean, and in bits seemingly redundant, but fun to watch and listen to nevertheless – well done!
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May 8, 2009
By Roland Hachmann in Digital Culture, Ideas, Trends, Web 2.0 | 0 comments
I just noticed, that first few of the most interesting next09 videos seem to be online now, so here they are:
Umair Haque about capitalism 2.0:
Andrew Keen about the digital vertigo:
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May 8, 2009
By Roland Hachmann in Digital Culture, Ideas, Trends, Web 2.0 | 0 comments
OK, some more Jeff Jarvis Content. The video of his great keynote speach during the next09 conference is online now (forward to 07:00, before that is a welcome note to the conference):
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May 6, 2009
By Roland Hachmann in Digital Culture, Social, Trends, Videos, Web 2.0 | 0 comments
During the last couple of days at the next09 conference here in Hamburg Germany, I enjoyed quite a few very interesting presentations, talks and discussions. Amongst the internationally known people were bloggers/thinkers such as Jeff Jarvis, Brian Solis, Umair Haque, Steve Rubel, Stowe Boyd plus a few others. Of course, there were also many well [...]
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April 10, 2009
By Roland Hachmann in Digital Marketing, Marketing, Social, Trends, Web 2.0 | 2 comments
Mary C. Joyce was the New Media Operation Manager of Barrack Obama’s electoral staff. German Techsite Golem interviewed her during re:publica, a german blogger conference last week. It’s not about the tools, she says, it’s the strategy. I almost guessed that…
Video: Mary C. Joyce – Interview von der republica’09 (3:25)
(Found here.)
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April 8, 2009
By Roland Hachmann in Ad News, Blogs, RSS & Co., Communities, Digital Culture, Digital Marketing, Marketing, Trends, Web 2.0 | 1 comment
Steven Berlin Johnson about old growth media and the future of news (not newspapers). Very interesting points about the bright future of news and the possible role of newspapers/journalists – yes there might still be a future for that industry.
The information architects Japan have launched their fourth version of the web trend map.
Stop buying attention, [...]
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March 20, 2009
By Roland Hachmann in Digital Culture, Fun, Life & Stuff, Social, Trends, Web 2.0 | 0 comments
People learning English have the possibility to receive “One Word a Day” via email in order to improve their vocabulary.
The word of today is funny, I wouldn’t have thought that it makes its way into regular vocabulary so fast:
Your word for 20th March 2009 is
* * * twittering * * *
Please choose the [...]
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