Trade shows have changed a lot over the years. I remember going to several where I would sit transfixed with boredom but at least I could smoke at the table. Ah, those were the days. I’ve attended trade shows in Miami, Cannes, London, Brighton, Barcelona, San Francisco, Madrid and many less glamorous cities. Apart from [...]
Monty’s Social Outlook
In social media everybody could hear you scream… not any longer
It was when the Library of Congress in the US announced two years ago that it would archive every single tweet that people became serious about social media… and more to the point their data. The idea of all that data being saved made many people more reticent when posting their 140 characters on Twitter. [...]
If your conference doesn’t have a Twitter wall, it’s probably crap
I’m rushing out this editorial on my way to the Open Data Cities conference in Brighton, a noble event that I will learn more about on arrival. Attending events these days is a very different experience from a few years ago because of the huge role social media plays in making them engaging. If a [...]
Perhaps PeerPerks Palestinian premieres pack perfect punch
The alliterative headline to this piece was one I submitted for my latest article on TechCrunch and was somewhat prosaically replaced with ‘The limits of social influence? Big Ben is influential on… drugs’. Still you can’t win them all and while the piece was all about the so-called measurement of influence through social networks, it [...]
Ireland’s crash is bad news, but digital will save its sorry arse
Like most dark-haired* people with blue eyes, I love Ireland and the romantic bones it rattles in my soul, so this week’s invitation to do a keynote at the annual Dublin Digital Summit was accepted eagerly. The keynote went down well, people were interesting, funny and always up for a drink… and there was great [...]
Nokia doesn’t just beat a tattoo… it also wants you to call one
I have been on holiday for a week in the north of Tenerife with my wife and little boy. I’ve been swimming in the pool, playing tennis, driving in search of an English newspaper and enjoying peace before the inevitable return to the world of stress and anger. Such early summers feel dream-like at times [...]
It’s a Leap Year and only one prediction for 2012… look back, not forwards
It’s the little things in life that grant knowledge and the information this week from my eight-year-old son that Leap Years occur every year the Olympics take place has somehow made made my life more composed. So, 2012 is an Olympic year and a Leap Year, and according to the Mayans it’s the year that [...]
