Influx

Piers and his band at PSFK have pulled together a great event called the Good Ideas Salon. The event will be held in London (King's Place) on January 30th and features a line-up of really interesting folks. Some standouts for me are:Mark Earls- thinker of all things HerdSophie Howarth-...

Media and brand websites are collecting a ton of data. Obviously, there’s the inbuilt desire to keep and own that data, instead of sharing and using it for something. Increasingly the aggregation of data on a community level is going to be a way in which brands can enhance their relationship...

Matt Jones, one of the founders of the hip, travel-based social network, Dopplr, spoke at last night's IXDA event in San Francisco. His presentation was a sort of biography meets sources of inspiration ramble, but it was good. Jones, worked for three years (2003-2006) in Nokia's design research...

A few weeks back Esther Dyson wrote an op-ed piece in the WSJ about the future of  advertising. She uses the example of Dopplr (the travel based social network) as a way of imagining a new brand relationship. "Each user determines who will get into his own garden, whether friends or vendors....

Dopplr, the social networky travel site has done something very clever, they've associated themselves with some of the smartest, most creative companies around by launching the Dopplr 100. While you may not have heard of Dopplr, you've certainly heard of many of the companies on the 100- including...