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New Technology

In our book we talk about the exponential growth of new technology. This video says it all and in mind blowing visual images.
JESS3 / The State of The Internet from Jesse Thomas on Vimeo.

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The Data Deluge

by Barrie Hopson on February 27, 2010 · 0 comments

in New Technology

This is the title of a fascinating piece from the Economist this week which has this interesting titbit in it “Everywhere you look, the quantity of information in the world is soaring. According to one estimate, mankind created 150 exabytes (billion gigabytes) of data in 2005. This year, it will create 1,200 exabytes. Merely keeping [...]

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Just when we are getting used to Generation Y we now have to get accustomed to their successors – those born from 1994 onwards. This a generation for whom expectations are set by the immediacy of the digital world. A Habbo survey in May 2009 found Generation Z to be altruistic, with a strong sense [...]

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In our portfolio careers book we talk about how the web changes everything. The way we work, think, create and communicate. We forget how life was just 15 yrs ago. No Youtube, Amazon, ebay, no GOOGLE even. Take a look at this fascinating series on BBC 2 ( and on iPlayer – oh yes that [...]

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We often get asked just why we quote Seth so much on this site. Easy – he is so opinionated and whether or not you agree with him he always stops you in your tracks and makes you think. This TED talk is another example of this as well as being succinct and amusing. There [...]

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This was the subject discussed on Radio Leeds this morning by our good friend James Ward who designed this site for us. He focussed on just what Google has delivered to us in 10 years. As you can see it is far more than just search:
Google Analytics (2005). Making what were previously enterprise-level website statistics [...]

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A fascinating new ebook is downloadable from Seth’s blog but as you are reading this you can do it from here. He has organised more than seventy big thinkers, each sharing an idea for you to think about as we head into the new year.

Here’s the deal: it’s free. Download it here. Or from any [...]

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Yet another Twitter tool that could be helpful in finding jobs. TwitterJobSearch is now available. Give it a try.

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Twitter – it delivers trust, speed and brand. Now everything you ever wanted to know about it.

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We had a great book launch Thursday at Katie’s wonderful entrepreneurs club in London. 80+ people there including many friends and colleagues and our publisher selling book copies. We did a stand up routine together for the first time which, from the tweets and emails we have received since, seems to have gone down well. [...]

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