Innovation feeder

The Information Architects, a strategic design agency in Tokyo, Japan have just released the beta version of their 2008 web trends map. They’ve taken 300 of the most influential and successful websites & pinned them down to the greater Tokyo-area train map. Needless o say Google remains at the centre of the universe [or in this case Tokyo] with various ‘train’ lines such as ‘Social Networks’ line, ‘Game Technology’ line, Adobe & File Sharing lines.

It’s a beautiful thing for the mind & the eyes.

Check it out here

In an earlier post I profiled Lynette Webb, the Insights Manager at Google who created a Flickr site called “Interesting Snippets”.

She calls it “my personal dumping ground for various cool quotes, the odd stat, as slides to talk around when describing how things are changing online and in media & communications generally” and it’s jammed with a bunch of great stimulus about the way technology is changing the world in which we live. It’s a Flickr collection online but she’s also published her slides in a book which you can buy on Lulu.

This is a new slide she just posted which I thought was worth a look. Whether you’re in advertising or not, companies are going to need to find new ways to communicate with people. Innovative communication tends to focus around a ‘better digital strategy’ or a new content format or a sexier podcast, when will we start finding new ways to have conversations & relationships with people?

Check it out, it’s a must see Interesting Snippets 

“Interesting Snippets” is a flickr site for Lynette Webb, the Insights Manager at Google. She calls it “my personal dumping ground for various cool quotes, the odd stat, as slides to talk around when describing how things are changing online and in media & communications generally” and it’s jammed with a bunch of great stimulus about the way technology is changing the world in which we live.

It’s a Flickr collection online but she’s also published her slides in a book which you can buy on Lulu.

Check it out, it’s a must see Interesting Snippets

bloggermania is here. in fact, you know it’s here because every tom, dick and barry has a blog, according to technorati there’s a new blog being created every second or was that every half second…and then there’s twittermania. for those of you who haven’t succombed to twitter, it combines IM-ing, social networking & mobile technology. twitter members can send short messages to their twitter network about what they’re doing or where they’re at…exciting isn’t it? now you can keep up with what your mates are doing every second of every  day.

whilst twitter seems a little well..time filling & stalker-ish,  think about it in the wider context of communicating online…the average geekhead has videos on youtube, photos on flickr, a blog on blogger, wordpress or typepad, maybe even a moblog, possibly a twitter network, del.ic.ious tags, they’re digg.ing and probably posting palava at myspace. which begs the question….

if a person exists in the world without a digital footprint, do they really exist and how would we know?