My Digital FootPrint

From: Reid Hoffman at LinkedIn Sent: 25 March 2011 16:56   Dear Tony, I want to personally thank you because you were one of LinkedIn's first 100,000 members (member number 28377 in fact!*). In any technology adoption lifecycle, there are the innovators, those who help lead the way. That was you. We hit a big milestone at LinkedIn this week when our 100 millionth member joined the site. When we founded LinkedIn, our vision was to help the world's professionals be more successful and productive. Today, with your help, LinkedIn is changing the lives of millions of members by helping them connect with others, find jobs, get insights, start a business, and much more.   We are grateful for your support and look forward to helping you accomplish much more in the years to come. I hope that you are having a great year. Sincerely, Reid Hoffman Co-founder and Chairman LinkedIn  

Serial entrepreneur Bill Nguyen has launched  Color , which is described as a "proximity-based social network" and has no privacy settings but think "photo-sharing app", though text and video are also supported. Color has raised $41 million in seed and Series A rounds from Sequoia Capital, Bain Capital and Silicon Valley Bank and Peter Pham, (Photobucket) is the co-founder and they have stolen LinkedIn Chief Scientist DJ Patil to lead a team. What is different: Rather than "friending" or "following", Color’s users simply post pictures and serendipity is applied as other users of the app will see pictures that the Color algorithm has determined are relevant to them. A "Color based relationship" is implicit rather than explicit. Users will see other pictures posted recently or near their current location, as well as pictures posted by other members they’ve expressed an interest in by looking at, liking or commenting on ...

Image : I had a flashback of something that never existed The interpretation of "Do you want the right to be forgotten?" in my mind is a war of words and misunderstandings.  On the top of one hill overlooking the battle field is a camp full of the privacy brigade who are awash with good use cases and top attention grabbing headlines. Pitched up on the other hill are the web 2.0 companies who want your data so they can offer a service for free; avoiding pay walls, annoying advertising and slow death.  In no-mans land are the regulators and the battle is being watched by us as aware, but not really caring participants, who have a live stream and a back channel for those who happen to want to voice an opinion on the current trending social media platform.  This is different topic  to the "do not track me" debate .   So what do we (I) actually want..... A right - "something that affords me some kind of protection"   The W...

Image : I had a flashback of something that never existed The interpretation of "Do you want the right to be forgotten?" in my mind is a war of words and misunderstandings.  On the top of one hill overlooking the battle field is a camp full of the privacy brigade who are awash with good use cases and top attention grabbing headlines. Pitched up on the other hill are the web 2.0 companies who want your data so they can offer a service for free; avoiding pay walls, annoying advertising and slow death.  In no-mans land are the regulators and the battle is being watched by us as aware, but not really caring participants, who have a live stream and a back channel for those who happen to want to voice an opinion on the current trending social media platform.  This is different topic  to the "do not track me" debate .   So what do we (I) actually want..... A right - "something that affords me some kind of protection"   The W...

Check out Ollie Bray – some great images and messages.

50383520-Edelman-Digital-Presents-Social-Media-Milestones.pdf Price of a Gigabyte 1981 = $300,000, 1987 = $50,000, 1990 = $10,000, 1994 = $1000, 1997 = $100, 2004 = $1, 2010 = $0.10 Time to download a GB 1981 = 331days 1987 = 83d 1994 = 83hours 2000 = 43h 2004 = 11h 2007 = 3h 2010 = 1h Time to reach 1m followers 25 hours and 17 minutes Main infographic from Edelman Time to steal your identity 1800 - no identity to seal 1900 - 7 days, hand forged 2000 - seconds ! 2100 - no identity to seal !

Original article on AdWeek   Value of a 'Fan' on Social Media: $3.60 What’s the value of a Facebook Fan?  According to the research from Vitue a Facebook Page with 1 million fans is worth a minimum of $3.6 million in earned media annually. Based on their own inventory Vitrue, who manages over 45 million fans sampled data across varying pages from digital entertainment to retail to B2B to CPG to publishers to quick serve restaurants, has determined a wall post impression to Fan ratio. How many impressions can a single wall post receive? And it looks like 1:1 (0.96:1 to be exact). This means a 1 million Fan Facebook Page can average 1 million impressions with a single post to the wall. Factor frequency; a two post per day strategy would garner approximately 60 million impressions per month. As these impressions are practically free, similar to earned media, they replaced a CPM value to earned media. They factored a “conservative” $5 CPM - how m...

From 25 May 2011, the methods used by websites to track visitors and tailor ads to their behaviour will change as European laws ( EU’s Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive ) dictate that "explicit consent" must be gathered from web users who are being tracked via text files: "cookies", which are widely used to help users navigate faster around sites they visit regularly. The changes are demanded by the European e-Privacy directive which comes into force in the UK in May. It is widely accepted that the section of the directive dealing with cookies was drawn up in an attempt to protect privacy and, in particular, limit how much use could be made of behavioural advertising. However, it is likely to have an impact on the more general use of cookies that remember login details and enable people to speed up their use of sites they visit regularly. The IAB has created a site that  explains how behavioural advertising works  and lets people opt...

 Cision , a global media intelligence provider, selects the OpenGardens blog to be included in their  Top 50 UK Consumer Technology blog ranking  part of  TechnologyWeek . Ajit and I wrote “Open Gardens – an innovators guide to mobile data” back in 2004, which he has continued as his blog.

Image from http://completeinnovator.com/2010/08/25/6-secrets-to-corporate-authentict/ The start of this thought was that a while back Facebook started to offer a service that allows you to comment on a blog post, such as this, using Facebook. Plus side is make it easy to collect comments and gain engagement as not everyone has a Blogger, WordPress, Disquss or other commenting login or can be bothered with the unique logins every time to comment. Or is happy to hide. Downside is control by Facebook and using dominant position to force players out of the market (think Microsoft bundling browser) which is one side, but the other side is the possibility of a single identity.  The shift here is from the identity we are given by our company/ government/ network or bank (many and in silos) to the one your parents gave you and your professional attitude. There is plenty to read on this topic …. Stowe Boyd , GigaOm , Kaliya , Identity commons , Scoble , Jeff Jarvis The observ...

Image from http://www.cocatalyst.com/blog/index.php/2008/06/24/did-you-know-how-many-different-types-of-innovation-there-are/ I propose that the cost of Mobile innovation is about change….. When there was a limited number of applications in the apps store it was relatively simple to get to the top Getting to the top of a list was easier when you only competed with a few others and the relative number of downloads was “small” Few leading app stores enabled concentration of resources on those Innovation (doing something different) was mass market and not niche Number of mobile platforms and version was limited and launching on one was sufficient Stand alone works but is not enough to compete for the top slot Mobile innovation is growing up and it has become all about experience and experience has a cost, but will the economics be good enough to make it viable and will the start-up guys be left behind as it becomes a game to be played with those with deep poc...

Image from http://www.cocatalyst.com/blog/index.php/2008/06/24/did-you-know-how-many-different-types-of-innovation-there-are/ I propose that the cost of Mobile innovation is about change….. When there was a limited number of applications in the apps store it was relatively simple to get to the top Getting to the top of a list was easier when you only competed with a few others and the relative number of downloads was “small” Few leading app stores enabled concentration of resources on those Innovation (doing something different) was mass market and not niche Number of mobile platforms and version was limited and launching on one was sufficient Stand alone works but is not enough to compete for the top slot Mobile innovation is growing up and it has become all about experience and experience has a cost, but will the economics be good enough to make it viable and will the start-up guys be left behind as it becomes a game to be played with those with deep poc...

Viviane Reding (VP European Commission) is making sure that the message is clear that non-EU companies have to adhere to the new stringent EU privacy laws?   Speech Any company that is active within the 27-nation region of the EU or even possesses a digital product line targeting an European audience must adhere to EU standards.  The new rules go even further than controversial American “ Do Not Track ” initiatives.  This EU initiative proposes to create national watchdog agencies across Europe to investigate and launch national and EU-wide legal proceedings, presumably with the possibility of civil damages awards against violators. " A U.S.-based social network company that has millions of active users in Europe needs to comply with EU rules ," says Reding " Privacy standards for European citizens should apply independently of the area of the world in which their data is being processed. " Worthy of note in the EU proposals for non...

Icorrect claims to be a repository for corrections to lies, misinformation and misrepresentations.  It looks like it wants to become the source of facts.  However, as the car crash scenario shows facts and truth are often not related. [Driver  1 – you ran into me, Drive 2 – you reversed into me. Fact there was a car crash. Truth about what happened is more difficult to establish] Protecting your reputation online is probably your responsibility and whilst the law does afford some protection for invasion of privacy and liable, the ultimate responsibility is yours.   QuickRepair is one of many “internet reputation repair services” that set out to “repair”/ change/ hide your reputation.   ---- It is better to start from a premise of being a professional and deliver what you say and correct with grace and speed than pay for a clean up?

Convergence_executive_summary.pdf This is the exec summary - I will post the link to the full report when I get it. The Convergence Survey, is the sixth published by Olswang Titled this year 'Does It Add Up?' and identifies digital trends and predictions for the future. The findings are based upon a combination of interviews conducted with over 30 senior executives across the technology, media and telecoms sectors and an online YouGov survey with more than 2,000 participating adult consumers. 

Me sharing some views on teams and management, the original of this article is here : http://www.innovationmanagement.se/2011/03/15/the-purposeful-entrepreneur/ What makes an entrepreneur’s decision making different from an executive’s and can the two ever meet? We asked investor and start-up champion Tony Fish to explore entrepreneur vs. executive innovator as he prepares to launch a novel new digital collaborative incubator in London.  We asked Tony to describe the entrepreneurial decision process and how it relates to executive decision making. My decision processes tend to be biased towards serendipity (connection) over business plan, purpose over profit, and team over individual. A corporate executive, driven by the vision of his company CEO, is led from the top. Theirs is a world of structure, policies and push; there is a need for plans and approval, controls and processes.  This core thrives on stability, sameness and routine. My entrepreneurs’ wo...

Me sharing some views on teams and management, the original of this article is here : http://www.innovationmanagement.se/2011/03/15/the-purposeful-entrepreneur/ What makes an entrepreneur’s decision making different from an executive’s and can the two ever meet? We asked investor and start-up champion Tony Fish to explore entrepreneur vs. executive innovator as he prepares to launch a novel new digital collaborative incubator in London.  We asked Tony to describe the entrepreneurial decision process and how it relates to executive decision making. My decision processes tend to be biased towards serendipity (connection) over business plan, purpose over profit, and team over individual. A corporate executive, driven by the vision of his company CEO, is led from the top. Theirs is a world of structure, policies and push; there is a need for plans and approval, controls and processes.  This core thrives on stability, sameness and routine. My entrepreneurs’ wo...

  Pitching for Management™ in London A cost-effective recruitment solution for SME’s Angel New have publicised details of their April London event on our Eventbrite booking page, where * I will be speaking *.   They are rolling the event out throughout the UK and have events coming up in Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield, Edinburgh and in deed London.  Too book please visit http://angelnewsevents.eventbrite.com For more information about the concept, check out their webpage: http://www.angelnews.co.uk/angelnews-newssite/static/pitchingforManagement.jsf AngelNews, is an online news service for entrepreneurs and investors the next event in London is on Wednesday 20th March 2011, hosted by Nabarro LLP. If you are a senior executive looking for a new challenge or a company wanting to build the perfect team, this is the event for you.  To reserve your place, visit the AngelNews events page: http://angelnewsevents.eventbrit...