Blog day 3 – John: After 3 days at the cutting edge, where the digital domain meets the paying punter, I have a tune running through my head. It goes like this: “It ain’t what you say, It’s the way that you say it, It ain’t what you say, It’s the place that you say it….” and so on. Read More »

I missed this last month, but as hardly a day goes by without Facebook unveiling expansion plans of some sort (today with more social commerce and last week with Facebook Deals), it is well looking at author Douglas Rushkoff’s prediction that we are “witnessing the beginning of the end of Facebook”.

He might not be the first to argue that Facebook won’t last, but it is is well worth a read as he argues that even as the company is valued at a stratospheric $50bn its days are already numbered. Read More »

In a leaked memo sent to staff at Nokia, CEO Stephen Elop has said that after two years it is “unbelievable” that the once leader in the mobile phone market does not have an answer to Apple’s iPhone.

The memo is being dubbed the “burning man” memo as it equate Nokia with a man standing on a burning platform with multiple sources of heat. He says Nokia has to change its behaviour. Read More »

Facebook’s drive towards become not only a social space, but a social commerce space is speeding up. Last month online fashion store Asos.com opened its Facebook store.

Asos.com is now being joined by French Connection, which is to launch a Facebook store at the end of the month. Read More »

Internet watchers and experts are never shy of predicting the future, but are notoriously bad at getting it right. All it takes is for the latest big thing to come along and we immediately start announcing the death of a well known brand, the demise of a long established way of working or the start of an irresistible new trend. Read More »