Month: July 2012

  • RIP Blackberry

    A great analysis in The New York Times magazine of RIM and brand destruction. This share price chart says it all. Story: http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/07/how-the-blackberry-died.html Google+: View post on Google+ Post imported by Google+Blog. Created By Daniel Treadwell.

  • The future for QR codes can be rosy

    Whenever I read reports that assess how poorly QR codes and other barcodes are doing, and the unhappy outlook for their future, I’m always reminded of Hugh McLeod’s classic cartoon from 2007 you see here. A new report from eMarketer…

  • FIR Interview: Kevin Delaney, Editor in Chief, Quartz

    Offering a new type of publication in the new global economy for a new class of global business executive is the primary goal of US publisher Atlantic Media with Quartz, a digital business magazine launching later this year. “We’re building…

  • Actionable insights from Burson-Marsteller on the Global 100 and the social web

    If you were to guess which has been the preferred social channel of the top 100 global companies in the Fortune 500 list over the past three years, you’d be spot on if you said Twitter. That’s what research by…

  • FIR Interview: Addvocate Founder Marcus Nelson

    Addvocate is a new “employee management service for social media,” according to founder and CEO Marcus Nelson. Every company thinks they need to be social. As such, they’re spending millions of dollars to do so. Unfortunately, they’re underutilizing the most…