Brian Solis talks with Dan Farber, the editor-in-Chief of CBSNews.com, in the latest in the (R)evolution video interview series on the trends, and ideas defining the future of business, marketing, and media. Read More »

What do NASA, The White House and Peta have in common? They, along with the US Army and the Democrat Party, have all been dubbed geniuses when it comes to managing their digital assets.

While you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to work in digital it clearly helps as NASA topped the poll due to its experimentation with technology including geo-location and 3D animation. The White House came second, and was cited for its hosting of presidential addresses on YouTube, as well as open-sourced contests to balance the budget. And Peta was recognised in third place because of its ‘best-in-class social media platforms that galvanise online action and set the bar for virtual advocacy’. Read More »

It isn’t confirmed yet, but VatorNews is reporting that Google as tipped over the last couple of weeks has bought US deals website Groupon for $2.5bn.

The price is lower than some of the moonshot type figures that have been bandied around over the last week with some saying that the price could go as high as between $3bn to $5bn. Read More »

After Dick Costolo, the new Twitter CEO, admitted in The Telegraph that Twitter lacks ‘clear long term vision’ people have been coming forth with free advice.

Costolo said  he was working on trying to define what Twitter’s purpose is in the long term adding that it was hard to try and define Twitter’s function and purpose because so much of the service has been defined by its users since it was launched four years ago. Read More »

First of all, it is not at all clear what would constitute success for an iPad ‘newspaper’. If it is to quickly reach profitability, which does seem unlikely, even with a projected doubling of the iPad universe to 15 million users in the next twelve months, the take-up rate for the subscription app would have to be astonishingly high for it to cover costs. Read More »