My Digital FootPrint

Powerful talk from Rebecca MacKinnon @TED describes the expanding struggle for freedom and control in cyberspace, and asks: How do we design the next phase of the Internet with accountability and freedom at its core, rather than control? She believes the internet is headed for a "Magna Carta" moment when citizens around the world demand that their governments protect free speech and their right to connection. Nation States to Private States and how we are now segmented by Behaviour.... ohh something to do with Digital Footprints and filtering .....

This follows the story of Kaliya ( Identity Woman ) who still can't do this as her Google+ Name is still SUSPENDED!!!! and doesn't have name sovereignty. Worth reading her post on the issues Nymwars: IRL on Google's Lawns. We need to bring this struggle to Google IRL (In Real Life - physical, real world, meet space). Here is my thinking on why and my ideas about how. WHY: Even women with privileged access to Google insiders and who have real name handle combinations are not getting reinstated. Also read Steve Lockstep -- : http://lockstep.com.au/blog/2011/08/08/real-names-is-real-sly

The 2011 Innotribe $100K Start-up Challenge will introduce the most promising FinTech and Financial Services start-ups to SWIFT’s community of more than 9,700 banking organisations, securities institutions and corporate customers in 209 countries. http://innotribestartup.myreviewroom.com/ On September 21, 2011 at Sibos in Toronto, 10 finalists, selected by their peers and  expert judges , will present to an invitation-only audience of dozens of decision makers from the world’s largest financial institutions, serial entrepreneurs, investors and media. And on September 22nd, two of those companies will each be presented with a check for $50,000 in front Sibos’ audience of 8000 financial industry professionals.  Learn more . Applications are due by August 14th, so if your start-up is ready for the recognition and rewards it deserves from the global financial services industry, register for this site and apply to the 2011 Innotribe $100K Start-up Challenge today! 

Way back in 2009 the Zócalo Group  ( www.zocalogroup.com ), a division of Ketchum and Omnicom Group published a report called " Measuring Digital Word of Mouth " and introduced the Digital Footprint Index (DFI).  The DFI was developed to improve a marketer's ability to understand, measure and accelerate where and how brands are discussed and recommended across all social media channels.  Worth re-reading just to see how far we have come in such a short time....

Just over four weeks away from Mobile 2.0!    and as we have sold out every year for the past 5 years, please do register.    If you send me an email at info@mobile2event.com , mentioning this Blog, I will send you a special discount code  So What Can You Expect at Mobile 2.0 This Year?  There are dozen of Mobile Conferences these days, but often the audience does not really have an opportunity to ask probing questions of the speakers and panellists or to engage in a lively constructive dialogue.  At all to many conferences speakers deliver a marketing pitch or just following talking points –  before you have the chance to ask any substantive questions, they run off the stage and exit the conference.   How many times have you heard: “Well, we just did not have time to get to all your great questions!”  Mobile 2.0 has a format that means speakers stay all day and the entire afternoon is dedicated to interactive workshops with the speakers participating, allowing you the to ask

   This report introduces a new way of measuring openness of open source projects like Android, Qt, Symbian, MeeGo, Mozilla, WebKit, Linux and Eclipse.   The report documents how in fact Android has limited transparency, its development is mostly closed to outside contributors and Google dominates over handset make-up and Android application distribution. The report analyses Android's closed nature in what in the past has been only speculated - e.g. see    - Techcrunch http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/26/open/   - GigaOm http://gigaom.com/mobile/heres-why-google-is-holding-honeycomb-back/ - Engadget http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/24/google-keeping-honeycomb-source-code-on-ice-says-its-not-ready/   The Powerpoint has the report's key insights - and the full 45-page report is here http://www.visionmobile.com/OGI Open Governance Index - Key insights.ppt Download this file

The first round of the ‘Start Me Up’ Start-Up Competition! An invitation-only pre-selection session for start-ups, to elect the best top two of which will receive the Innotribe Award later in the week during the Innotribe Celebration… The 2011 Innotribe $100K Start-up Challenge will introduce the most promising FinTech and Financial Services start-ups to SWIFT’s community of more than 9,700 banking organisations, securities institutions and corporate customers in 209 countries. On September 21, 2011 at Sibos in Toronto, 10 finalists, selected by their peers and  expert judges , will present to an invitation-only audience of dozens of decision makers from the world’s largest financial institutions, serial entrepreneurs, investors and media. And on September 22nd, two of those companies will each be presented with a check for $50,000 in front Sibos’ audience of 8000 financial industry.  Learn more . If your start-up is ready for the recognition and rewards it deserves from the glo