Mining the new Gold

The Wall Street Journal has been running a fantastic set of articles called What They Know. Today’s (15th in their series) is called TV’s Next Wave: Tuning In to You. This article states that:
Data-gathering firms and technology companies are aggre…

The business of personal data

The World Economic Forum just came out with a report, “Personal Data: The Emergence of a New Asset Class,” that surely is going to raise some controversy, as it explores what it means to commercialise personal data and make good money doing so.

My Skype Manifesto

Last week I published my second interview with Skype CEO Tony Bates. He shared a few of his ideas about values that will guide Skype through coming challenges and growth, the way Cisco’s guided them. Tony’s list was, roughly:Engineering will lead p…

Social, Interest and Purpose: The Three Graphs

Nathaniel Whittemore wrote last week about the intersection of the social graph and the interest graph. He argues the two graphs are so different that businesses should craft different strategies for them. There’s a third graph; I’ll add that in a…