New from TED.com… Brewster Kahle is building a truly huge digital library – every book ever published, every movie ever released, all the recent web history… It’s all free to the public – unless someone else gets to it first.
A colleague once told me a story:
“A friend of mine was on Holiday in New York, whilst visiting one of the many sky scrapers in the city, he was in a lift and asked somebody he saw: ‘excuse me, how do you get to the top?’ the reply was: ‘by working long and hard buddy!’
The point is, to become better at anything requires effort. How you apply effort can be the tricky part.
Comedian Russell Brand has yet again caused major controversy with his outspoken silver tongue, this time at the MTV Video Music Awards where he insulted the US President and other household American names.
There’s no stopping the search giant – From The Guardian’s website… “Google marked another milestone in its ambition to organise the world’s information last night, revealing an ambitious extension of its Google News search that will make millions of pages of archived newspaper content available for free.”
Very slowly, and without anyone really noticing (until it’s too late), Google will probably know everything. Yikes.
The GoViral Seminar at the 2008 Cannes Lions explores life in The Social Metropolis – a vibrant and dynamic world of modern social media and consumer participation. This video isn’t particularly web friendly – it’s very long, but there are some great insights into where online advertising maybe heading in the next few years.
