My Digital FootPrint

“Say so long to the Early Adopter. Today, the most influential guy in the room is the tastemaker who senses when a trend's 15 minutes are up.” Introducing the idea of the First Dropper from Details. Also check out Hopkinson report from Wired – audio version of the same article. Here are Jims views…. Early adopter or safe to stay Here are the items it’s still safe to jump on - iPad, Kindle, and other eReaders - Tumblr - Twitter - Facebook Gone or ready to be dropped - iPhone (see the great article by Wired Gadget Lab editor Dylan Tweney, talking about how he’d love a feature phone tethered with an iPad ) - Cable TV - Foursquare Why so interesting to Digital Footprint theory Target early adopters with good reason.  Understanding first droppers are you at “crossing the chasm” Who will know/ understand about First droppers as this is valuable information ……. In the right hands.  I expect the ISP’s and access providers will be high on the list.

  The provisions of the Digital Economy Act 2010 (the "Act") as they relate to online copyright infringement face an uncertain future in light of the High Court's decision in November to grant permission for a judicial review on the application of two of the UK's largest ISPs, BT and TalkTalk. Meanwhile, the Parliamentary Culture, Media and Sport Committee, which announced an inquiry in November into the implementation, practicality and likely effectiveness of the Act, has been forced to postpone its inquiry pending the outcome of the judicial review proceedings. Follow here to read an analysis from Olswang of the High Court's decision

  FT.com has launched its inaugural ‘Mobile in the Boardroom’ global research report. There should be a below. According to the research: business professionals are more than twice as likely to access general news and 1.6 times more likely to access social networking sites. whilst consumers are using their handsets to access the mobile web in increasing numbers, business professionals remain significantly ahead of consumers in terms of adoption and usage intensity. 60 per cent of business professionals use their handsets to browse content on the mobile web. Over 40 per cent of business professionals use their handsets to access news and current affairs content. iPhone is dramatically changing the way business users consume content. Data from the FT’s servers published in this report suggest that iPhone usage has a remarkable effect on users’ *propensity to access mobile content* and that the *amount of time the spend consuming* that content. The report can also be accessed here Ge

A recent Harris Interactive survey confirmed that 90% of U.S. adults want more control over the information that is available about them online. Intelius, has joined the band wagon and unveiled a new subscription service designed to help consumers take control of their online identity and reputation. TrueRep uses public records and commercially available information such as social network public profiles to give consumers insight into information available about them, and helps them understand how others might view them based on that information. It is designed for consumers to monitor and manage their online personal information, so they can feel more confident about their online persona. The beta release of TrueRep is being launched (Dec 2010) and it is already a subscription service and delivers a Reputation score…..based on their interpretation of your data (15 different parameters from a subscriber's public profile based on three key areas – stability, trustwo

Twitter is to mobile; what search is to the web! Mobile and Web in this context are “platforms”  Wireless and Broadband are “infrastructure” Twitter and Search are “applications” Follow (Twitter) is instant, contextual, relevant and personalised by you and your preferences. Search (Google, Bing) is indexed, selected, presented, elected, paid for, delayed but personalised on your history. Follow is "now", at the point of inspiration, entertainment or need, immediacy, narrow and responsive, Search is "there", available, rich, historical, deep and wide. I would propose that “Follow” has a higher value for mobile than “Search”, and search has a higher value for the web.  Maybe there is some logic to acquiring follow services,  if you believe mobile is the future!

Just a few good links for those interested in analysis of data http://infosthetics.com/ http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/ http://decisionstats.com/ http://www.kdnuggets.com/ http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~ml/index.html http://www.boxuk.com/blog/web-app-business-models-user-needs-and-what-people-pay-for http://tdwi.org/pages/research-home.aspx http://zyxo.wordpress.com/

Dr S. Sayad of University of Toronto presents a simple and succinct overview which describes all of the Data Mining you want to read about in a few images which expand as you click on the specifics to show examples http://chem-eng.utoronto.ca/~datamining/