It was not a likely spot to learn about emerging ecosystems but next to my hotel in Barcelona was a pub. This was very convenient. It was continuously raining while there, so I could dip out of the hotel and into the pub whilst barely getting wet. While there I could relax, drink, still use the hotel Wi-Fi (that close) AND eat. They had a very simple menu which for me was perfect. I ended up having chicken three nights in a row, while doing my day job which is normally based in the Silicon Valley. Now I am not sure what that says about me as a person or what it says about my life in the Networked Society…but it worked very well. Continue reading
…and I wouldn’t have it any other way. Barcelona and Mobile World Congress 2013 is over. Deep breath? Nah, not really. Up by 6am this morning – spring is here, the sun is out, the eyes fly open. Also, we’ve already started talking about the content for our next public gathering – in roughly 30 days. How will we take the best of Barcelona and whittle it down into a 30-minute direct presentation? The news releases, the presentations from others in the industry, the meetings, the imagery, the people all around us. The “buzz.” Perhaps I can start with a few reflections here, and see what sticks. Continue reading
Ericsson President and CEO, Hans Vestberg and House DJ Avicii released the crowd-sourced track, ‘X-You’ during the Ericsson keynote speech to the Mobile World Congress. Last night I was in the audience and reported on the world’s largest music collaboration of its sort – curated from nearly 13,000 submissions from more than 4,000 people in 140 countries. This is just one more example of how the Networked Society is transforming everything – including the music industry. Continue reading
And so it begins. Opening day of Mobile World Congress. 67,000 experts on mobility, technology, radio networks, chipsets, applications, network this, network that, and not to forget – marketing professionals – it’s an event on a gigantic scale. Continue reading
By: Dodi Axelson
22 February, 2013
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Today I’ve spent the whole day rehearsing and preparing for Mobile World Congress, where 67,000 professionals get together in Barcelona every year. It feels like the day before you go to summer camp, to be honest. A lot of us around the office are packing up at the end of the workday, taking a look around, printing out our hotel confirmations and leaving them on the printer before we go.
Luckily, we also have them digitally on our phones. Continue reading
Just because we are not paying for a lot of things on the internet, does it really mean they’re for free? The new Personal Information Economy report from ConsumerLab explores how and to what extent information can complement money as the “oil” of the 21st century. But what kind of oil are we talking about here? Continue reading
Just how powerful is connectivity? Stay on this question for a second and think about your daily life: Mobile broadband is playing an increasingly important role for municipalities, governments and public institutions in managing their public responsibilities, for businesses in serving their clients, and in fact it enables creation of services that move citizens closer to the center of their societies. Continue reading
My colleague Patrik Regårdh, head of strategic marketing at Ericsson, concludes in a recent interview that information and communication technology (ICT) is a key contributor to city development and that we are only at the beginning of this positive development. I find it very intriguing to imagine where this might lead us. Continue reading
I wrote earlier about how creative people use tools and resources found on the web to realize their ideas. We call them the Game Changers, and we found out that they organize their work using ten different networked organizational forms (see image). Continue reading
Modern Race Cars performance is increasingly dependent on the continuous and rapid collection, interpretation and analysis of very large amounts of data.
A few weeks ago NASCAR teams held their Daytona pre-season thunder to fine tune their new cars. But what does NASCAR evaluate and how do the race car teams get the race car performance data to and from the track to their headquarters? Continue reading
