Technology

Dec 7, 2009

Part Three – Real-time risks and opportunities

In the final part of this discussion of risks and opportunities in CEE, I was asked to give a view (see if you can spot me). So here’s my brief summary: What are the risks for the next year or two? First, we are still in the middle of what I call the internet,…

Dec 3, 2009

Alternatives to Facebook …

Following the news yesterday about Facebook now reaching 350 million users, I love this chart from the Focus business news service of social network sizes and the years they began (doubleclick to see larger version) …

Dec 2, 2009

(Stagecoach) Islands in the Stream

I've blogged a lot about Wells Fargo's innovations in the past. This is because they are one of the banks in the stream of innovation that comes out of Silicon Valley. This is why they are great proponents of social media: Blogging: FIVE corporate blogs. Online video: YouTube channel. Social networks: MySpace profile for Cassie,…

Dec 2, 2009

(Stagecoach) Islands in the Stream

Dec 2, 2009

Facebook is now bigger than America

If you didn’t spot it, Facebook just reached 350 million users. That’s a lot. In fact, Facebook is now bigger than the USA (population: 307 million) and would be the third largest country on the planet if it was a country. Not bad for a website launched on February 4th 2004. To celebrate, founder Mark…

Dec 2, 2009

Facebook is now bigger than America

Nov 30, 2009

We don’t need your customer service

For a while now Monitise, the mobile payments processing firm, has been researching views on the future of banking with the Future Foundation, part of Experian. Their objective is to find out how our relationship with money is changing and to understand how the culture of money will develop over the next few years. The…

Nov 30, 2009

We don’t need your customer service

Nov 30, 2009

We don’t need your customer service

Nov 25, 2009

Zombie money in a chainsaw hell

I recently discovered that friends were killing me. Literally ripping me to shreds with a chainsaw. And it hurt. After all, I am meant to be the Zombie Priest in the Church of Goth, and no-one had beaten me before. And where did that chainsaw come from? I was mad. In fact, I was steaming….