Tech Stuff that Will Rock Your World
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Tech Stuff That Will Rock Your World
PAUL G ILL INSPEAKER, AUTHOR, JOURNAL IST
PAUL@GILL IN .COM@PGILL IN
“40% of the companies in this room won't exist in a meaningful way in 10 years unless they change dramatically.”
--Cisco CEO John Chambers to a Wall Street Journal conference, Feb., 2015
Customers in Control
Paid product placements
Print/TV ads
Billboards
Emails I describe to
Media articles
Branded websites
Consumer opinions posted online
Recommendations from people I know
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
Most Trusted Sources of Buying Advice
Trust completely or somewhat Don't trust much at allSource: Crowdtap, 2012
OTHERS LIKE US
TripAdvisor averages 340 million monthly visitors, hosts more than 225 million reviews and operates in 45 countries.
Yelp had 142 million monthly unique visitors in the first quarter of 2015. It hosts 77 million customer reviews
WHERE YOU GONNA STAY?
CRISIS IN PROCESS
FROM THE MOUTHS OF BABES
March 6, 2012March 5, 2012
OUT OF NOWHERE
The Ballad of Lean, Finely Textured Beef
3/7/12ABC World News
features a segment on "pink slime"
3/14/12Congresswoman Chellie
Pingree and 41 Congress members ask U.S.
Agriculture Secretary to stop using LFTB in the school lunch program.
3/21/12Safeway, Albertsons, Shop 'n Save, Farm
Fresh, Kroger, and Food Lion say they will drop
LFTB products.
3/25/12Beef Products, Inc.
suspends operations in three states and idles
650 employees
4/3/12Blaming the "pink slime" backlash,
ground beef processor AFA Foods files for
bankruptcy.
Competing with Data
Workforce Automation
“Things looked bleak for the Angels when they trailed by two runs in the ninth inning, but Los Angeles recovered thanks to a key single from Vladimir Guerrero to pull out a 7-6 victory over the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park on Sunday”
“Kitty couldn’t fall asleep for a long time. Her nerves were strained as two tight strings, and even a glass of hot wine, that Vronsky made her drink, did not help her. Lying in bed she kept going over and over that monstrous scene at the meadow.”
I asked [Narrative Science CTO] Kristian Hammond what percentage of news would be written by computers in 15 years. ‘More than 90 percent.’”
--Steven Levy, Wired, 4/24/12
Intersection Points
PAUL G ILL INSPEAKER, AUTHOR, JOURNAL IST
PAUL@GILL IN .COM@PGILL IN