Tag: Here Be Dragons

RIP John Perry Barlow, warrior for digital freedoms

By Adam Tinworth

John Perry Barlow, who died yesterday, was one of the great early visionaries about the potential of digital: and its terrible risks.
The dark side of the Silicon Valley startup dream

By Adam Tinworth

Money! Coding! Beer! It's all fun in startup land, right? Well, not so much…
Technology versus Humanity

By Adam Tinworth

As we intergrate technology with our bodies are we building a better future – or a complex dystopia?
The rise of the privacy-free generation

By Adam Tinworth

A recent debate amongst Quartz staff suggested that the 20-somethings have a completely different approach to privacy to the older generation. Is this a cultural shift?
Feedly’s DDoS: are we all open to extortion?

By Adam Tinworth

Feedly was the most recent web service brought down by cybercriminals in an extortion-based DDoS.
What’s next?

By Adam Tinworth

In an age of big data, of digital ubiquity and mass surveillance - what comes NEXT? The build up to NEXT 14 starts here…
All Waze lead to Google

By Adam Tinworth

Google has bought Waze, the crowd-source navigation app. Great news for the Israeli start-up - but should users be worried?
Yahoo! and Tumblr: owning up to your dragons

By Adam Tinworth

There's a dragon lurking in the Yahoo! Tumblr deal - Yahoo! has a lousy record with acquisitions. But this time, there's something different in the approach…
The new normal and lurking dragons – more bloggers on NEXT13

By Adam Tinworth

Anab Jain has recreated her NEXT13 talk in blog post form - and other bloggers went away haunted by their own dragons. More great blogging about the conference.
Panel: the corporate dragon-slayers

By Adam Tinworth

Do big corporations have what it takes to be great dragon slayers in digital innovation? A panel at NEXT Berlin 2013 aimed to find out…
NEXT13: opening remarks

By Adam Tinworth

Matthias Schrader and Neelie Kroes kick off NEXT Berlin 2013 with a rallying call, a call to battle: Here Be Dragons
Behind the scenes at NEXT13

By Adam Tinworth

A video look behind the scenes, as the team work to get NEXT13 ready…
Choose your dragon: politics

By Adam Tinworth

There are many dragons to be slain at NEXT Berlin. The Dragon of Politics could kill your business with regulation - or shelter and support it…
If everything was easy to evaluate…

By Fred Zimny

The world around us is changing constantly, and so are services and products. Some customers adapt faster and easier to these changes than others. How can this be?
Ride the dragon of digital disruption

By Adam Tinworth

Don't ignore the dragon: digital disruption is coming for your industry - but there's an alternative to being caught in the flames…
Female Entrepreneurialism Is A Journey Into The Unknown

By Lea Weitekamp

Being an entrepreneur, especially one dealing with new technologies and future business models, may often in itself seem as a journey into an unknown territory. In the light of recent discussions, the journey seems even more adventurous for women, says guest blogger Lea Weitekamp.
Social media: you can’t fake a network

By Adam Tinworth

"Social" might be the most over-hyped phenomenon on the internet today. Yet, very few of those creating the hype talk about the real effort needed to get good returns from the social web - and social apps.
Google Glass: let’s talk about it, not fear it

By Adam Tinworth

Google Glass does raise privacy question - but let's talk about the issues and etiquette, rather than being afraid. Plus: a chance for Google Glass Explorers to get a free trip to Berlin…
The internet is not infantilising us – unless we let it

By Adam Tinworth

Is the internet reducing us to tribes of attention-seeking, short attention span children? No. But the decisions we make on how we use the internet might be…
Our internet is a fragile thing

By Adam Tinworth

There's a lurking hidden dragon in the internet: our connectivity is more fragile than we are aware of, much of the time. A single person can deny a country internet access, and the minerals to build our phones are running out.
Here be dragons: old websites are doomed to die

By Adam Tinworth

Can websites bounce back from disruption. The rebirth of Flickr suggests that it might just be possible…
The demise of Google Reader and the price of free

By Adam Tinworth

Google is killing off Reader, its RSS reading service on July 1st. The information hungry online community are in shock - but are they just paying the long-delayed price of using a free product?
Where be dragons? In the network…

By Adam Tinworth

The power of networks is that they can amplify one person's actions greatly. The rail network gave individuals power over thousands of travellers. How much more powerful is the internet?