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New Technology

We have all experienced these presentations and many of us have or choose to give them. Look at this 3 minute video from Fast Company magazine. Stick with the tips any you might, just might, not kill another member of your audience.

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hans rosling

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“The cracked ones let in the light” John Caswell – has a link to a wonderful video on internet stats. While you are there – check out the rest of his blog – its fab.

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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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