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Re: History of mobile phones | What was the first mobile phone?

Walter Adamson — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 05:48:08 -0000

Useful but missing many of the most significant mobile phone innovations and developments, which as it happened were in Japan. For example, the world's first commercial mobile cellular network, the world's first open internet-capable phone including email - the Docomo i-mode series (1999), the world's first app-store 1999 (copied by Jobs), the world's first iTunes and single track music download service (KDDI 2000), you got the camera phone right with j-Phone 2000, plus many many other innovations finger scan security (Fujitsu I think) and face recognition (KDDI Au I think) in about 2002, the embedded travel and payment card Suica etc etc. plus the many navigation apps well before google maps and such became popular

It's not unusual that all the Japanese inventions are missing or glossed over. But it creates a distorted view of the reality of the history of mobile phone innovations.

Re: Why the Luster on Once-Vaunted 'Smart Cities' Is Fading - Yale E360

Walter Adamson — Mon, 13 Dec 2021 18:43:23 -0000

I think that the incrementalism the authors propose will certainly create smarter cities e.g. orders of magnitude dumber than your iPhone, however real smart cities require disruptive innovation.

Just because they have "failed" so far doesn’t mean that smart cities are a failure it means that the innovation processes failed. Probably because they were a compromise and ended up simply being incremental to accommodate all interests.

Who wants to move to a "smart city" for incremental improvements such as the council knowing when the flowers need watering??

The answer is no one. And that's what's happened so far.

Real innovation will make smart cities a reality, it will just take a lot longer than we imagined.

Re: Why 2017 will herald a resurgence of values-based marketing

Walter Adamson — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 21:22:54 -0000

Not to mention that the full realisation of the "implosion of trust" recorded in the Edelman Trust Barometer 2017 leaves the move to value-based marketing as possibly the only way to stop further erosion of trust in business. I wrote here https://t.co/Vtw8oztK68

Re: An Implosion of Trust

Walter Adamson — Tue, 17 Jan 2017 02:19:44 -0000

A staggering result and staggering words by which Mr Edelman summarises and concludes. It's ironic that it falls to business to be the final saviour when business itself can only act through its leaders, who are so distrusted.

Re: Which Is The Best Social Media Monitoring Platform? #smmonitoring #sysomos @kinshipd

Walter Adamson — Wed, 16 Mar 2016 22:11:04 -0000

Hi Gloria, thanks for the tip.

Re: From Old Work to New Work - From Silos to Flow #Fow

Walter Adamson — Tue, 09 Feb 2016 21:05:16 -0000

Thanks for your thoughts Ron. I'll speak on behalf of Jeremy and say yes open community centric innovation is effectively changing many organisations for the better.

Re: What is Social Data Analytics? #analytics #watson @kinshipd

Walter Adamson — Thu, 04 Feb 2016 05:07:57 -0000

Hi TimeBandit. Thanks, appreciate your comment. I'm sorry to say that I don't have a specific referenceable example, but I'm inferring from the different characteristics of the audience on different platforms e.g. Twitter, Linkedin, blogs, Reddit, that different topics would resonate in different ways. This would be confirmed by research on specific topics.

Re the question of ever-changing platforms, that is a real challenge for the social media monitoring and social media analysis industries. We use best of breed tools, and they only have access to sites which provide APIs and even those APIs may provide very limited data. We might say, according to our tools, that 98% of the conversation about this topic is occuring on Twitter. That sounds logical. However the truth is that the tools don't adequately or do not all measure a range of social sites where the real conversations may be taking place. From a research and business perspective, because we use best of breed tools, then the bottom line is that no-one else can do any better, no matter that it is rather flawed.

Keep in touch, Walter

Re: Be not afraid, believe in ESNs

Walter Adamson — Wed, 13 Jan 2016 23:34:07 -0000

In work with our customer we've found that once "fear" and then "control" are overcome, that lack of purpose is the biggest inhibitor to widespread ESN success.

Re: Buffer Has Acquired Social Media Customer Service Tool Respondly! Here’s the Full Story

Walter Adamson — Thu, 17 Dec 2015 21:37:20 -0000

Great blog post, very transparent and exciting and living the Buffer culture, congrats.

Re: Online Reputation Management by Brand Image Recognition #Sysomos #Gaze #ORM #brand #marketing @kinshipd

Walter Adamson — Sun, 01 Nov 2015 17:53:31 -0000

Hi Victoria, yes good suggestion, starting with the logo is easier of course than whole "image tracking" but we might get there. The Gaze process involves a quite complex digitisation and algorithmic representation of the logo to be tracked in order for it to be able to be matched accurately in complex settings such as in some the images above. Thanks.

Re: WHICH 50 : Digital has turned television into a value story

Walter Adamson — Thu, 02 Jul 2015 05:49:38 -0000

Hi Michael, nice article. I also doubt Telstra will be a player, their oft-stated dream of being a "media company" has run aground so many times that there must be nothing left of that ship except the those in denial. Besides Telstra suffers from the same kind of smell as energy companies and TV companies where the public view them as rapacious. In the case of Telstra and TV companies they've played every trick in the book to put their own self-interest first forcing people into bundles and long term contracts and manipulating program timing to bludgeon people into viewing - you just have to see the manipulative program timings to see how they regard viewers as fools. And then they announce "fast track from the US" - are they bonkers, do they know about the Internet, why should we wait at all? The new players are a breath of fresh air not the least because they treat customers as intelligent buyers who have multiple options. Bring on the competition!

Re: Google Firestarters Comes to Australia - Only Dead Fish

Walter Adamson — Wed, 08 Apr 2015 17:06:01 -0000

Love to be able to get a ticket for the Melbourne event Walter @adamson walter@kinshipdigital.com

Re: What does the Future of Work mean for organisations today?

Walter Adamson — Thu, 19 Feb 2015 17:35:32 -0000

Thanks Nik.

Re: The Real Reason Companies Are Spending Less on Tech

Walter Adamson — Fri, 02 Jan 2015 01:30:15 -0000

Sure, but the investment criteria are completely different for those firms, and the accounting implications may also be completely different - and both of these are of no consequence to a 3rd party purchasing services as an expense. Am I wrong?

Re: Learning with our clients #BIDV Social Media Command Centre Study Tour #smcc

Walter Adamson — Wed, 10 Dec 2014 17:36:03 -0000

Thanks Wendy, we appreciate your comment.

Re: The Real Reason Companies Are Spending Less on Tech

Walter Adamson — Mon, 01 Sep 2014 01:30:40 -0000

Good point and the point those companies are spending capex in a way which gets them a lot more bang for the buck, and often on in-house designed servers for example. They are more capex efficient than 99% of company IT hardware investments.

Re: The Real Reason Companies Are Spending Less on Tech

Walter Adamson — Thu, 28 Aug 2014 23:55:46 -0000

I think, it shows a misunderstanding of how IT is bought these days. It is no longer Capex but operating cost. Correct?

Re: How To Convince Execs That Social Will Inevitably Integrate Into Their Business

Walter Adamson — Wed, 27 Aug 2014 01:51:20 -0000

Thanks Chip, and I'd forgotten about the pre-PBX days - perhaps those execs still hiding behind their main line receptionists are going to be the last to accept the integration of social technologies - a litmus test?

Re: Why Social Media Creates #Abundance - #Volunteering @kinshipe

Walter Adamson — Mon, 04 Aug 2014 02:19:30 -0000

Thanks @Michael Q Todd and very interested to have heard that you jumped the gun on this several years ago when you set up Abundance Marketing, and this blog post I found of yours is on our wavelength http://www.michaelqtodd.com... Why Your Social Strategy Must Focus on Abundance.

Re: Govt contract torn up over data sovereignty

Walter Adamson — Wed, 30 Jul 2014 00:45:11 -0000

Troglodytes.

Re: WHICH 50 : CIOs need to engage with emerging operational system, says Gartner

Walter Adamson — Mon, 21 Jul 2014 20:28:11 -0000

A solution desperately looking for a problem!!

Re: How to Share Intelligently on #Linkedin in 3 Clicks #tips @adamson @kinshipd

Walter Adamson — Wed, 16 Jul 2014 05:53:40 -0000

1. Go to your email with subject Linked Updates - that's the first image in the post.
2. Under the "Mentioned in the News" section of your Linkedin Updates email you will see that first image - although if there is nobody Linkedin finds mentioned in the news this section will not appear.
3. In the "Mentioned in the News" section you will see the little envelope at the end of each item - as in the first image. Click on that, and follow the steps outlined.

Still not seeing it? Let me know.

Re: How to Share Intelligently on #Linkedin in 3 Clicks #tips @adamson @kinshipd

Walter Adamson — Wed, 16 Jul 2014 02:14:46 -0000

Annalie - click on the little envelope with Tell your network next to it - you might be looking too hard :) Let me know if still having trouble.

Re: What You Should Know to Achieve Successful IT Outsourcing

Walter Adamson — Wed, 30 Apr 2014 01:46:35 -0000

Good post although I have slightly different views about success, which I wrote about 10 years ago. "Selective outsourcing" being the enemy of success but that's what has been happening for the last decade. It's time it got back on a business footing and now a technology price-reduction model. You also touch on those points https://www.dropbox.com/s/a...

Re: The Disconnect in Connecting the Workplace

Walter Adamson — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 21:15:45 -0000

Curtis yes we are big advocates of the "why" as we've seen many ESN founder due to lack of a broad understanding of the purpose. I wrote a broader post here about I think you'll find interesting this http://www.kinshipenterpris...