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What Gets Shared?

What Types of Superbowl Ads Get Shared the Most? infographic

The Year in Review, Contagious+

With no input from me, yet. My goodness. There is so much goodness.

Most Contagious 2012 from Contagious

2013: The Year Marketers Are Expected To Be Strategic (by @Gartner_inc): http://bit.ly/2013MKTStrat

Social Media Report (by @nielsenwire)
http://bit.ly/NSM2012

Design Trend Predictions for 2013 (by @creativebloq)
http://bit.ly/CBDesign2013

12 Consumer Trends for 2113 (by @trendwatching)
http://bit.ly/TW2013Trends

15 Strategic Planning Questions to Get Ready for 2013 (by @brainzooming)
http://bit.ly/13QUESTS

JWT: 10 Trends for 2013 (via @JWTNewYork)
http://slidesha.re/UvCtmk

Internet Trends by Mary Meeker (of @kpcb)
http://bit.ly/MMWWWTrends

The 16 Most Important Social Media Updates of 2012 (by @hubspot)
http://bit.ly/HSSocial2012

Top 10 Media Trends (by @nielsenwire)
http://bit.ly/Nielsen10

Ford Trendbook 2013 (via @scottmonty)
http://bit.ly/FordT2013

Global Trends for 2013: A Top Ten For Business Leaders (by @TheEconomist)
http://bit.ly/Econ2013

10 Key Trends To Watch In 2013 (by @globaltrendscom)
http://bit.ly/GTrends13

 

Source:Dan Wallace 

Knowledge Navigator from Apple 1987

via Mark Avnet

Navigating knowledge and projecting what the future could look like. The video was dated "September 2011." Siri launched October 2011.  

Besides just the techo-stuff that seemed futuristic in '87 I also love how it positions how changes in technology affect human behavior. The professor is not only able to access more data (although why wouldn't he bring this awesome thing along to lunch?) and be more connected (technology) but is able to pull off a really cool presentation to his class even though he's totally waiting until the last second.

Sound familiar?

 

Analyzing Sir Martin

It’s a disadvantage of the revolution. People used to say that information is power but that’s no longer the case. It’s analysis of the data, use of the data, digging into it – that is the power. You get so much of the stuff and everyone has access to it. via Google's Think Quarterly

100 Great Bullet Points from Cannes

100 Bullet Points from #CannesLions 2011 by @jessedee

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100 Beautiful Slides

100+ Beautiful Slides from #CannesLions '11 from @jessedee

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Envisioning the Next 25 Years of Technology

This chart from Fast Co Design is a lot of fun. Reminds me of Gibson's quote: "the future is here, it's just poorly distributed."

Stuff near the center is technology we have today. Big nodes are the types of technology. Move out from the center, and you move out to the future. via @mavnet

 

A day made of glass

Augmented Tachikawa

Why Networks Matter + How They Propagate

Nicholas Christakis again, this time at the RSA in the UK.

Really good stuff on how networks work. It comes down to the fundamental human need to not only experience (emotion, events, habits, etc) but to share. By expanding our network, we expand ourselves. Particularly interesting is the bit towards the end, where he talks about the correlation between successful Broadway plays and the type of network the people working on it came from.

Shows that either threw together a bunch of people who had never worked together or people who had only worked together tend to fail.  Shows that balance the relationships between people tended to succeed. Unsurprisingly, it's not only about happiness spreading (or obesity or altruism) but also that the types of networks we form create different sorts of lives for ourselves.