Ted Shelton

thanks nice blog actually this will not happened...

2009-11-16T12:25:01.200-08:00

thanks
nice blog
actually this will not happened .arab country refuse to allow us to exit from gaza ,did you think they can allow to us to relocation , i was left gaza in 2003 ,now i plan to return to gaza .after i see arab countries worst than israel ,i do not have chance to found county accept me as ten thousands of gaza people ,so many of us obligate to carry weapon and fight to live , i search for 3 years to find country or organization to left gaza ,but sorry failed
if you found country accept palestinian send to me email ahmed_2003palestine@yahoo.com
thanks a lot for your nice article

Jim: The girls are happy watching their TV program...

2009-11-15T06:57:31.842-08:00

Jim: The girls are happy watching their TV programs on their laptops -- which is great. I much prefer a medium in which you chose what to watch next rather than sit in front of a tube waiting for the next thing to be showered on you.

You can use your cell phone for 911, right? Now t...

2009-11-14T17:16:13.666-08:00

You can use your cell phone for 911, right?

Now that cable comes into the house, how long til the girls figure out how to plug a TV into it?

Yes we have an incoming PSTN line on Skype so you ...

2009-11-14T12:26:43.974-08:00

Yes we have an incoming PSTN line on Skype so you can call us at home, and voice mail and caller ID, etc. It works great! Have had Vonage in the past and I don't like them. The other nice thing about Skype with me overseas so much is that I just call Skype-to-skype for free no matter where I am to our home phone.

Ted, did you think about going with any other serv...

2009-11-14T12:07:28.357-08:00

Ted, did you think about going with any other service than Skype? Like maybe Vonage? Have you created a US based Skype number so you can get incoming calls from general PSTN phones?

I've always thought about taking the leap and dumping my landline phone, but it still is superior to my mobile phone. I have the Comcast triple play and I am happy with it. Cable is MUCH faster than DSL when I was with AT&T.

I use Skype for all calls out of North America. Wondering how much of a hit I would take if I completely dumped the landline phone. Please make updates on the experience and let us know how it goes.

Hello Matthieu Coucoulle and Trang Ho please feel ...

2009-11-06T09:33:30.901-08:00

Hello Matthieu Coucoulle and Trang Ho please feel free to email me directly --

tshelton (a) theconversationgroup (dot) com

Hello, We are students from France, majoring in C...

2009-11-06T02:57:45.507-08:00

Hello,

We are students from France, majoring in Computer Science and Engineering and currently doing some research on ambient intelligence and knowledge management as part of a school project. More specifically, we're trying to answer the question "Can ambient intelligence be used for knowledge management?"

We came accross this post of yours, about ambient awareness and business intelligence, and there are some ideas that we would be very interested to read further about, as it could help us in our research. We figured we would try to contact you...

Generally speaking, we are trying to contact experts who could give us interesting insights. We would therefore be interested to know your opinion on the topic, that is if you believe that ambient intelligence can be used for knowledge management.

Also, you said your blog post was an excerpt of a white paper you were writing. Could we know when to expect your paper to be completed (any chance to see it before the end of the year)?

Thank you for your time.

Matthieu Coucoulle and Trang Ho

On schedule? Kurzweil said the computational equi...

2009-11-01T00:39:52.907-07:00

On schedule? Kurzweil said the computational equivalent of a mouse brain would be available at $1,000. The million-plus dollar blue gene computer running at 1/10th speed is off by a factor of 10,000. Double your computational capabilities every year, and you're still of by 13 years. Exactly how is being off by 13 years over 15 years "on schedule"?

Hey Ted...the operative word at the end of your pi...

2009-10-20T11:26:49.995-07:00

Hey Ted...the operative word at the end of your piece is "change" and that's the main reason you don't see everyone doing this. Everyone is reluctant to change.

I came upon this great realization as to why social media within ad agencies and businesses hasn't flourished both internally and externally. It's because when you hire firms like yours, The Conversation Group, or mine, Spark Media Solutions, we don't offer a solution that you can just pay for and it's solved. This is a solution you pay for, and then you have to change and get involved. People realize then NEED to change, but they're reluctant to do so because it requires work on their end.

Great post; lots of "meaty suff to think about." I...

2009-10-13T13:33:20.121-07:00

Great post; lots of "meaty suff to think about." I look forward to the completed "whitepaper." Thanks for sharing your preliminary thoughts.

Ellen Gunty

Brendan: Well, it definitely depends upon the typ...

2009-10-13T03:38:05.550-07:00

Brendan:

Well, it definitely depends upon the type of business! But I can definitely imagine a sales team equipped with AR scouring certain environments -- imagine the impact at a conference!

In talking to clients about any of these technologies I think the key is to offer opportunities to run test and learn pilots at low cost before you go for a huge rollout. In the example I gave we are starting with handful of sales people and demonstrating real ROI before expanding the program.

As for what benefits this can bring -- how about increasing sales and decreasing the cost of sales? That seems sufficiently compelling :-)

Interesting points, Ted, thanks for the post. I ju...

2009-10-13T03:29:26.665-07:00

Interesting points, Ted, thanks for the post. I just recently asked Jan Muhlfeit, Microsoft's Chairman for Europe about the firm's plans for Augmented Reality technologies in a Leaders' Dialogue forum. I'll happily post the response once I get it. Should be interesting, though I think they are more focusing on their 'Surface' roll out (in Europe at least).

Can I ask what your thoughts are on the AR mobile sales force? If you can see people's profiles through mobile lenses such as the iPhone or Google's Android, will this mean a more mobile and 'out of office' sales force scouring the streets for suitable customers? How would you approach this question with a client? What benefits could this bring to a company...?

Brendan Donnellan (Prague)

Sooooooo, sooo true. The sad thing for us Brits is...

2009-09-28T12:55:09.951-07:00

Sooooooo, sooo true. The sad thing for us Brits is that British Airways is going down the route of United with it's appalling customer service and ridiculously high prices....time for a change!

That's a tough act to follow. I know the feeling (...

2009-08-27T10:53:20.458-07:00

That's a tough act to follow. I know the feeling (my mom named me after an Astronaut).

A sad day for your country and all the good causes Sen. Kennedy supported (especially net neutrality).

Interesting. I am working on my next book which co...

2009-07-23T22:09:23.217-07:00

Interesting. I am working on my next book which covers branding via ethnic, cultural and religious segmentation. I have a chapter on metatrends, but I define them a bit differently. Rather than Web-based observations/reactions to trends (which implies a herd/consensus/conventional wisdom approach), I am defining metatrends as the fundamental forces driving trends. For example, P2P communications technology is the metatrend that drives the trend of the social economy/networking. Reactions? email me nickwreden-gmail.

Best,
Nick Wreden

Ted This is Laurent@eCairn. Chris and his team did...

2009-07-06T11:13:28.074-07:00

Ted
This is Laurent@eCairn. Chris and his team did a great job. The report is very thorough and full of insights.
Laurent

Ted Let me know when you arrive and I'll buy you ...

2009-05-25T04:42:28.995-07:00

Ted

Let me know when you arrive and I'll buy you a warm pint of beer.

Rebecca

Hi Ted I think this is a very exciting and audaci...

2009-06-12T08:44:27.346-07:00

Hi Ted

I think this is a very exciting and audacious movement.

The challenge I see is how does the "open source" and slightly anarchic structure compete against the very structured organised competition (in your case Google and Apple).

Can collaborative creativity win? I hope so!

Noel...

Hi Ted, just connected to the WE ARE SOCIAL group ...

2009-06-20T06:17:15.411-07:00

Hi Ted, just connected to the WE ARE SOCIAL group on Linked In read a question and saw your answer - led me here.
Wow, and Thank YOU. This post, and pt2 which I'll read in a moment cristal clearly puts everything in perspective.
I'm a key IAB Canada player, I do a lot of training in online advertising. Although I've been touching on Social Media, I've yet to find a clearly laid out history of what was, how it's changing and hopefully where we're going.
If you don't mind I'd like to quote you and use some of your references (which are already open in my browser and ready to read) in future training I'll be giving in the fall to senior advertisers and agency people.
Regards,

I appreciate "Huh? Wow!" stuff as much as the next...

2009-05-22T04:57:48.480-07:00

I appreciate "Huh? Wow!" stuff as much as the next dude. But looks as if someone's dining out here on over-complexifying and making mystical what history shows time and again as perfectly manageable. Can't keep track of 100 decision makers without a computer? Please. Take a successful manager of Congress -- LBJ, fer instance. He mastered the decision-making flow of 400+ members of Congress, as a Rep., Sen., and Pres. There was no mystery, and no computer. Every master pol does this. Does this analysis not seem too precious by half?

I'd be more sympathetic to this researcher's comme...

2009-04-14T11:21:00.000-07:00

I'd be more sympathetic to this researcher's comments if she was a Facebook user, which she is not.

Really enjoyed this Ted. Wish I'd been in that pub...

2009-04-14T03:13:00.000-07:00

Really enjoyed this Ted. Wish I'd been in that pub.
Interested in your thoughts on my latest missive: http://fasterfuture.blogspot.com/2009/04/lego-man-why-next-web-is-about-meta.html cheers dc

LOL Ted you know there's a button the media presse...

2009-04-13T18:32:00.000-07:00

LOL Ted you know there's a button the media presses to trigger a replay of exactly this kind of ding-dong script every time a new technology comes out. Looks to me like you and Aryn accidentally cast yourselves cameos - you aren't the first and won't be the last!

The scene is always the same - two opposing visions of the future - a utopia and a dystopia. Here are some familiar variations on the theme:

1920s:"The airplane will make countries indefensible to attack by their enemies"

"The airplane will create a new order of peace and harmony as national boundaries are transcended and seen from the air to be meaningless"

1930s:"Robots will serve us beer on the lawn and we'll never need to work again!"

"Robots will take over the world and make us all slaves!"

1940s:"TV will destroy kids literacy and rot their brains"

"TV will open a window onto the world and show kids a world they could never otherwise encounter"

In other words we always project our worst fears and greatest hopes onto new technology that has yet to be assimilated into our lives.

Once society understands where a technology fits in, the truth is always much more prosaic. So, today we know that:

* riding an airplane means getting on a metal tube and then you decide between chicken or beef. You're told you are flying at 40,000 feet but seeing as it looks exactly the same where you get off as where you get on, it could just be a massive con trick.

* our homes are stuffed with robotic devices like automatic washing machines that just do their stuff. Nobody apart from the Japanese seems to want a clanking metal man hanging around.

* TV is now just another noise in the corner of the room. (Sorry to be so cut and dried about that, old-media readers, I used to make TV for a living but you and your intrusive advertisers have totally debased it and that's why people are turning off in their millions.)

Everything internet-related seems to me to be following the same path. The media would have you believe that either it's going to corrupt your kids with paedo pornography, or it's going enable a laptop for every child to educate the developing world just like that - problem solved.

None of which is to say that social media is insignificant. Air travel and TV did change the world in their own ways but our generation doesn't fret about them in the same way our grandparents did.

It's fun to know we're creating archive material for our grandchildren to laugh at while we try to work out 'what Facebook means' isn't it?

Chicago loves I Fight Dragons. Glad to see them ge...

2009-04-11T13:56:00.000-07:00

Chicago loves I Fight Dragons. Glad to see them getting exposure outside of our city limits. We've even started our own fansite at http://ifdfans.com

I agree, I have a similar reaction when I hear the...

2009-04-08T11:41:00.000-07:00

I agree, I have a similar reaction when I hear the 'job title' Social Media Consultant/Expert. In my opinion there's no such thing. You're still a marketeer or brand consultant - but you have expertise in the techniques of social media.