Above Photo: Google showcases interconnected screens at Google IO conference in SF. By Chris Silva (cross posted) and Jeremiah Owyang, Industry Analysts at Altimeter Group Last year’s over hyped skydiving was replaced by down to earth by grounded product enhancements. We’re live from the Google … Continue readingGoogle better organizes our world –and sells us back the experience
By Chris Silva (who’s cross posted on his blog) and Jeremiah Owyang, Industry Analysts at Altimeter Group Technologies are Emerging at an Increased Rate –Making Tracking Harder than Ever SXSW is no longer about disruptive technologies being launched, instead, it’s a mainstream, it’s a mainsteam festival, … Continue readingAltimeter’s Take: The Technologies That Matter from SXSW 2013
(Above pic: Techcrunch Disrupt featured 329 global startups over 3 days in San Francisco) I just visited dozens and dozens of startup booths (so you don’t have to) at the massive Techcrunch Disrupt held in San Francisco, I also attended in 2011 and published my … Continue readingField Notes: Touring Techcrunch Disrupt 2012
I’ll be at LeWeb London with brands, and the agencies and software vendors who serve them as a keynote and co-host on the social track with Cedric Giorgi , I hope you’ll join us! I’m pleased to attend LeWeb this June in London (new venue, … Continue readingLondon LeWeb: Faster Than Real Time
Left: Austin on Sunday, after rain dispersed. If you didn’t attend SXSW and want a first hand perspective (or maybe you did go and partied too hard) then this post is for you. There’s a lot to learn from SXSW: A Petri dish of social … Continue readingSXSW Interactive 2012: As Crowd Swells, New Technologies Emerge for Intimate Relationships
What would you tell 600 marketers from the largest global brands who have European initiatives? That’s exactly what I was tasked to do here at Bazaarvoice’s Social Commerce Summit in London today. These brands, which are quickly moving into the space, have adopted social technologies … Continue readingKeynote Slides: Prioritizing the Coming Year, Achieve “Escape Velocity”
I’ve been watching with great intrigue the growing groundswell of the Occupy Everything that is directly challenging the economy, business, and the market. My business partner Charlene Li and I and the rest of the Altimeter analysts have been watching and discussing this growing movement, … Continue readingMeetup: Business Leaders to Meet Occupy Everything. Sat AM in SF
Left Image: Startup Alley features 200 emerging startups, I talked to as many as I could. In my quest for ABR (always be researching), the Three Web Strategy Spheres, I had a day to focus in on the technology sphere (the bleeding edge of it) … Continue readingDisruption at Disrupt? Not Quite, but Here’s a Few Gems
Altimeter hosted our second roundtable lead with our newest hire, Chris Silva (blog/Twitter) who’s our newest analyst at Altimeter focused on Mobile Strategy. Chris also stems from Forrester, and was an analyst there focused on mobile, he was actually one of the trainers in my … Continue readingAltimeter Roundtable: Mobile Discussion on “Enrich, Engage, and Entrust”
Last night, Altimeter hosted a first in many public roundtables on disruptive technologies. Twenty highly engaged folks that ranged form skeptics, brands, gamification vendor provider (Empire Avenue, Badgeville, Zynga, Gigya) to players of these games. The 1.5 hour discussion discussed how these platforms work, explored … Continue readingEvent Rollup: Gamification Discussion At Altimeter Roundtable
