SquawkBox with Duncan Stewart
All I can say is WOW! Duncan does a great interview and it was terrific to have a guest of his stature on the show. His show at ScotiaBank Place on January 24th is going to be amazing!
Enjoy!
Archive for January 22nd, 2008
Mayhew’s Facebook Tips and Tricks Call
Last night I participate in a call titled Facebook Tips and Tricks. It went on for 90 minutes, but it was terrific. Organized by Mark Mayhew, again, it combined a good mix of Facebook Newbies with folks who have been on Facebook for a while. We discussed topics ranging from search engine strategies, to marketing and recruiting, and techniques for building fan pages. AND, we speculated wildly about Mark's latest terms of service warning.
Enjoy the recording, even if you couldn't make the call. There's about 60 minutes of material here.
Squawk Box with Duncan Stewart.
Join us this afternoon for a special edition of the SquawkBox with guest Duncan Stewart. Duncan is a consultant, columnist to the National Post, and a bit of a futurist. Tomorrow morning he'll be hosting the TMT 2008 seminar here in Ottawa, and discussing market trends. We're lucky enough to have him on the SquawkBox, and we'll be talking about these key trends:
- Anonymity vs authenticity and social networks.
- The flight to privacy.
- Online and how its gradual moving to the front page of media.
- The $10 mobile phone, and its implications for the communications industry.
- LED lighting - is it finally here in 2008?
- Oil… the new water!
Sign up information for the call is here: http://apps.facebook.com/freeconference/conf/show/11076
Operators want to unlock subscriber data
Unsurprisingly, a survey by UK based Apertio suggests that operators are looking to gain value from their subscriber data.
The survey found CSPs feel that to effectively compete with newcomers, as well as traditional competitors, they need to unlock the vast amount of subscriber data they hold and utilise it in real-time to create an integrated service and marketing model. The respondents recognised the value created by an informed view of the customer, with 76% stating that customer profiling is one of the most relevant areas where they can use the data, closely followed by identity management (64%). Such information puts the service providers in a privileged position, by being able to provide the user with services that are more useful and relevant to them, rather than the standard one-size-fits-all offering.
In addition, Dr. Ray Barghi, Sr. Group Manager for Subscriber Data management at Sprint goes on to say:
“By unifying subscriber data in a single repository, application complexity and integration issues are eliminated. CSPs can then take advantage of the expanded ecosystem of application and service developers open to them. Such moves will provide the catalyst for the creation and delivery of a new generation of innovative, relevant and personalised services.”
Such a repository will have to be:
- opt-in, so that users can add the valuable information that they wish to add. Think of how Facebook handles user profiles today.
- a shared standard, so that developers don't have to target the market on a carrier by carrier basis with customized versions of the application.
Otherwise, it's simply a non-starter.
Wanted: real time transcription
Pulver's challenge to the Internet Communications Industry: create a real time captioning application for the hard of hearing. He's offering a spot on stage at Spring VON to demo this application.
Having spent a good junk of the weekend looking for a quality transcription system, I certainly agree that the time has come for this. Windows Vista lets me transcribe voice from a single speaker in real time. What I really want is to be able to transcribe a podcast, like the SquawkBox. Audio content isn't searchable yet, but boy… would the world be a better place if it was.
I'll be watching this one with a lot of interest. Seems like a ripe opportunity for a mashup. Thomas Howe? Did you see this?
