From the monthly archives:
“Folks were tweeting 5,000 times a day in 2007. By 2008, that number was 300,000, and by 2009 it had grown to 2.5 million per day. Tweets grew 1,400% last year to 35 million per day. Today, we are seeing 50 million tweets per day—that’s an average of 600 tweets per second. ”
via Twitter Blog: Measuring Tweets.
A lot of people have been asking about why we have gone so quiet in Rise Vision and why we can’t talk about what we’re building next and we knew the quantity of these inquiries would only increase with DSE next week, so we thought it was time to share a bit about where we’re going.
We have been watching digital signage, technology, business and consumer trends and we realized a few things:
Given these inevitable trends we don’t think this is about digital signage any longer, we feel the market is even bigger than we all thought and we refer to this opportunity as a digital display convergence.
To meet this convergence we realized we needed a radical new approach, and we knew we just weren‘t big enough to make this all happen on our own, we needed a really big lever so we borrowed the biggest one we could find – Google – and we set about creating:
I know the above is vague and to be honest it is meant to be. We’re not ready just yet to reveal all but within the next few months we will begin beta testing on a very limited basis and if all goes well we will have a full release by early summer. To all of our partners many thanks for you patience, we’re hoping you’ll find the wait well worth it.
What happens if Google makes a Blue Ocean out of of Google Docs and as such “makes the competition irrelevant”?
What happens if Apple keeps changing the way we work (another Blue Ocean) and we keep buying Macs (which don’t run MS Office so well)?
What happens if we are all tired of Microsoft putting the lock on our desktops and we prefer open source Open Office instead (my preference)?
The landscape could change (actually probably already is) overnight.
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1. independence or freedom, as of the will or one’s actions: the autonomy of the individual.
2. the condition of being autonomous; self-government, or the right of self-government; independence.
3. a self-governing community.
Everyone wants it but I find so few willing to take it.
Why? I can only find two reasons.
First is fear of responsibility. Autonomy implies I will take responsibility for my condition in the world and few are willing to take that chance. It is just so much easier to delegate that responsibility to your boss, your peers or your family and then bang the righteous drum if you don’t end up with what you feel your due.
Second is laziness or a lack of discipline. It is easy to wait to be told what to do. To spend your free time in the pleasure of no responsibility rather than using your waking moments to define where you will go and more importantly, because little can be done alone these days, where you will take others with you. To leave at the end of the day knowing that your peers will look after you and tell you what to do when you show up the next morning has a lure in itself, it does provide some freedom but I put forward it isn’t autonomy and you just might find yourself showing up to locked doors screaming how unfair it all is.
The world we live in needs autonomous players, free agents, people who are willing to put their heart and sole into the game, make their own games, and shape their own destiny. Arm chair critics and those who prefer to play it safe by putting someone in front of them to take the fall are not going to leave the chair and their destiny will always rest with those who are willing to carry them.
If you really, truly, want autonomy, park the fear, get disciplined and take charge. We all need leaders.
I like this!
Colorado State University
Interesting book “How We Decide” and in particular the first chapter really resonated with a belief I have in always defining a clear goal with a timeline for every action we take to achieve the goal.
It turns out that by using FRMI technology to reverse engineer the mind we have found out that we use a predictive model to learn. Apparently in every situation we are in we predict what will happen next, measure and adjust and we build pattern upon pattern of these models to guide us through every action we take in our lives. Our pattern recognition is guiding our actions before we are consciously aware of a situation. Read the book – Jonah Lehrer does a much better job of explaining it than I do.
My take on this is that evolution gave us this model. I feel that we should move from unconsciously using it to consciously applying it to how we shape our lives. We should consciously use and improve upon what evolution has given us.
How? In the workplace I often I hear I don’t know what the outcome should be or by when that something that can’t be described will happen. Usually out of fear of failure the person avoids describing what they should achieve. Given what this book proclaims as fact and what I have intuitively felt for years this approach begs the question – how can we quickly learn from any effort we take if we don’t attempt to predict the outcome, measure the results and adjust as we move through the actions? If we don’t do this how can we accumulate the patterns that we will use the next time this situation arises? I am sure the wandering approach will teach us in time but I can’t help but feel this is just too inefficient in today’s rapid pace of change. Park the fears – stake out what you want to achieve – move forward systematically to achieve it – measure and continually adjust as you do – and voila – you should end up with a pattern, a learned experience, that you can apply to the next similar situation. Your portfolio of experience, leadership and the value that you create and can market becomes greater and greater far faster than what the go for a walkabout approach could deliver. Don’t get me wrong, going for a walkabout to clear the mind and reflect on life is an amazing experience as well, but not the approach that we should take to rapid assimilation of new ideas and leadership.
In one’s work it is important that we continually learn so that we can make the call as to what will be done by when and others can depend upon us to be more right than wrong. This is good leadership and in my opinion there isn’t one leader that everyone blindly follows. Everyone is a leader today, everyone aligns with a goal and leads the charge to achieve it.
I believe this is the best way for individuals and organizations to learn – predict – measure – adjust – repeat – and it turns out that our evolutionary model of learning, predictive patterns, completely supports it. Let’s park the relatively new learned behavior of goal avoidance and embrace what is intrinsically ours.
Interesting application that could be used by digital signage to promote a companion smart phone application:
Weather Channel distributes Android app via on-screen QR code — Engadget.
Rumor has it Google is about to release a marketplace for third party applications built upon or in conjunction with their Google Apps product offering.
What’s this mean for me?
Life is getting more and more interesting as each day passes.
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