I assume, you know, why you want to find an influencer. I actually don’t like that term “influencer” and would like to use some synonyms like evangelist, thought leader, expert, expert blogger/columnist, curator. So let us say we want to find some one who is well known in a certain space. There are several ways… [Read more…]
March 18, 2012
We build tools to discover, gather and explore information. Here is one prototype we are playing with. It takes three publications and analyzes the top terms (we chose bigrams – pairs of words). Each tag cloud is build by analyzing the news feeds from these financial newspaper sources. Topic: You can create a topic… [Read more…]
August 23, 2011
Is this really true? In the past, we collected information not simply to know things. That was only the beginning. We also collected information to convert it into something larger than facts and ultimately more useful — into ideas that made sense of the information. We sought not just to apprehend the world but to… [Read more…]
August 13, 2011
One of our conversation topics yesterday at in50 hours was how to extract the useful conversations from Twitter. One way to do that is to find the intersection between tweets from the people you follow and the topics you are interested in. This is easier said than done. How do you identify tweets with topics… [Read more…]
July 20, 2011
I am testing a couple of hypotheses. This is part of the research I am doing to build a product. I can use some help. Hypothesis #1 You need to research a topic once in a while, for your job. The topic can be broad, for example - ‘mobile trends’ or a little more specific… [Read more…]
March 13, 2011
I have been fascinated by weak signals ever since I heard about them a couple of years ago. Weak Signals were conceptualized by Ansoff, H. Igor. I stumbled upon this study titled Weak Signals in Innovation Journalism – Cases Google, Facebook and Twitter So here are some questions: How do you detect weak signals? How do you know… [Read more…]
March 6, 2011
The higher up I go when working with a good organization, the more often I hear conversations about the competition, what they will and won’t do, what they will and won’t defend. It is not enough to know your customer. You must grow equally acquainted with your competition and then focus on the few unique… [Read more…]
December 19, 2010
How do you discover what you want to discover? This is a space of interesting possibilities and opportunities. Since its inception, the web has presented us with a discovery problem. How do we find something we wish to pay attention to (or connect with)? In the beginning this problem applied to just web sites –… [Read more…]
April 23, 2012
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