MediaFuturist: Cool Tools

Here is a good way to read my tweets (using Twylah)

Twylah is a cool tool for sorting and reading tweets.

Posted by Gerd Leonhard at 4:27 PM in Cool Tools, Twitter | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Personal branding in the digital age: new video

This video is part of a new series of 5-7 minute videos I recorded here in Basel, Switzerland in July. This episode shows about how I use social networks and mobile-optimized platforms / apps to spread the word about what I do. I also provide a few examples of the most efficient and viral online branding concepts that I have tried during the past decade. You can download this video if you go to my GerdTube.net video channel (on Blip.tv) or just subscribe to my video podcasts in iTunes.

Posted by Gerd Leonhard at 12:08 PM in Branding, Cool Tools, eCommerce, Future of Advertising, Future of Business, Future of Marketing, Future of PR & Communications, Leadership, Lifestreaming, Link Economy, Trust, Twitter, VIDEO BLOG, Viral Stuff | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Google + : funny video about 'circles'

Love it - nice to add some humor to this topic. Google + does seem to be taking off like a fire cracker - add me to your circles if you want :)

Posted by Gerd Leonhard at 1:27 AM in Cool Tools, Google, Videos I Like | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Very cool Google image search update: just drop an image into the search box!

... could be potentially very powerful for my research work: just drop an image into the Google Images search box and find lots of related stuff. Nice.

Posted by Gerd Leonhard at 8:43 AM in Cool Tools, Google, Resources | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Video: the future of shopping (KinectShop)

This is what happens when you connect MSFT's Kinect platform with shopping. Via FastCompany: "A new augmented reality shopping platform for Xbox Kinect will allow users to try on clothes in true 3-D, share photos with friends, and store wish-listed items on smartphones for shopping on-the-go... "The customer can visually see what an object looks like on them without even entering a retail store," Steve Dawson, Technology Director for the Emerging Experiences group at Razorfish tells Fast Company. Unlike existing virtual shopping that shoehorns 2-D photos on top of body snapshots, "with Kinect, you can find the physical outlines of a person and map it to your body."

Posted by Gerd Leonhard at 8:07 AM in Advertising Trends, amazing, Companies to watch, Consumer Insights, Content 2.0, Cool Tools, eCommerce, Future of Marketing, Future of Selling, Future of TV, Games, Television, Trends, Videos I Like | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Nice video on Facebook 'Deals'

A lot of key terms and themes are nicely explained in this video

Posted by Gerd Leonhard at 10:11 AM in Cool Tools, Data is the new Oil, eCommerce, Facebook, Future of Business, Future of Marketing, Videos I Like | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Emotiv Brain-Computer Interface (video): control objects by thinking about it?

Pretty amazing stuff.

Posted by Gerd Leonhard at 6:23 PM in amazing, Cool Tools, Must-watch | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Augmented Reality: new video by Layar

Very impressive stuff - made me think. Take a look.

Posted by Gerd Leonhard at 7:24 PM in Augmented Reality, Companies to watch, Cool Tools, Mobility, Videos I Like, Web/Tech | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Brands are becoming publishers (Nike+ GPS app)

Impressive way to sell a show: give us reason to buy. Allow us to join the tribe. Give us EXPERIENCES.

Posted by Gerd Leonhard at 2:22 PM in Advertising Trends, Apps, Cool Tools, Future of Advertising | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

New video: my talk at MidemNet Academy 2011 on Innovation: music industry learnings from other industries

This is a good one - loads of information in here, and pretty well recorded. More details and PDF with all slides, here. Enjoy and spread the word. Subscribe to my video RSS feed, here, if you want (download all videos directly to iTunes, watch on your iPod etc).

Posted by Gerd Leonhard at 11:45 AM in 21st Century Content Ecology, Advertising Trends, Attention Economy, Augmented Reality, Best of Gerd, Branding, Broadband Culture, Convergence, Cool Tools, Crossmedia, Crowdsourcing, Data is the new Oil, Decentralization, Devices, Digital Music, Events, Future of Advertising, Future of Agencies, Future of Books, Future of Broadcasting, Future of Media, Future of Money, Future of PR & Communications, Future of Selling, Future of TV, Futurism, Gadgets, Innovation, Inspiring, Interesting, Lifestreaming, Link Economy, Mobile Advertising, Music Like Water, MY PRESENTATIONS, My videos, Networked Society, Open Network Economy, Open Source, Openness Issues, Privacy, Sharism, Shopping2.0, Social Commerce, Social Networks, Telepresence, Trust, TV, VIDEO BLOG, Videos I Like | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Great video on the power of sound (via Julian Treasure)

The garbage bin makes a sound when you throw something in, and the amount of garbage collected doubles - make something fun and it will work better is the lesson. Powerful thought. Thanks to Julian Treasure at TheSoundAgency for posting this video.

Posted by Gerd Leonhard at 10:53 AM in Branding, Companies to watch, Consumer Insights, Content 2.0, Cool Tools, great ideas, Inspiring, Market failures, Other writers, Realizations | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Cool twitter tool: Mention Map

Posted by Gerd Leonhard at 1:51 PM in Cool Tools, Twitter | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

A short video interview on The Future of Music (and intellectual property)

From the June 16 Music Conference in Ireland, see more details and my presentation here.

Posted by Gerd Leonhard at 10:25 AM in 21st Century Content Ecology, Conferences, Content 2.0, Cool Tools, Copyright, Digital Music, Eoc: Music Industry, Free!, Future of Music, iPad, Music 2.0, Music Flat Rate, Music Like Water, Must-watch, Politics of Content, Videos I Like | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Check out my daily Twitter 'Paper' created by Paper.li

Very cool tool - simple and useful. Paper.li organizes links shared on Twitter into an easy to read newspaper-style format. Newspapers can be created for any Twitter user, list or #tag. A great way to stay on top of all that is shared by the people you follow - even if you are not connected 24/7 !

Posted by Gerd Leonhard at 11:32 AM in Cool Tools, Crowdsourcing, Data is the new Oil, Decentralization, Future of News, Future of Reading, Sharism, Startups, Twitter, UGC | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Amazing video: what a small child does with the iPad: it's a playing tool!

There is so much to be learned from this video - be sure to watch it. Clearly, the iPad (and hopefully, many other cool tablets that will follow in its wake now) is an altogether different way of 'computing'. GUI becomes NUI (natural user interface), at last. Finger-sweeping on a touch screen, and literally playing with the screen and the interface and the apps - definitely not a work tool as much as a reading + watching + consumption ++ playing tool. And yes, agreed, the iPad is a walled garden, it is Control in a very shameless form - and it still rocks. Confusing, maybe, but not enough to disregard or destroy or even. ...blend it.