http://grmp.org/blog Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:44:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Trust Over the last week we have experienced not just a massive hit on our financial wealth. More than that we have seen an even greater fracturing of trust. It appears that it is not money that makes the world go round, but trust. Even with the most phenomenal injection of liquidity ... http://grmp.org/blog/?p=19 I was interested to read this article in the Chicago Tribune about the sentiment of the American public. What particularly was interesting was that now economists are able to tell us what the emotions are that drive the sentiment of the public. "There's a great misunderstanding of what's happened," says economist Allan ... http://grmp.org/blog/?p=18 Unilever, the makers of Dove, have an ad campaign in place developed by Ogilvy in which a young girl gets blasted with rapid fire media messages about beauty. It is called "Onslaught". Here it is: In response to the ad Greenpeace developed an anti-ad which attacks Unilever as a primary cause ... http://grmp.org/blog/?p=17 Markets are conversations. And now the conversations that we have online have become more disparate as more social networking options avail themselves. So the markets are changing as the marketplace becomes more spread out. Here is an article about some of the proposed solutions -"Consolidating Your Web Banter". There is no ... http://grmp.org/blog/?p=16 From time to time I visit Seth Godin's blog. He has some insightful gems about the way that brands, products, people... are perceived, interact.... etc. This is one of them. Its all about how we make decisions in the blink of an eye without very much information. Nevertheless it is very much ... http://grmp.org/blog/?p=15 The following article appeared originally in New Scientist magazine. It seems to have real relevance to one aspect of what we are doing at our partnership. Our view is that as enterprises become more complex, and more sophisticated, so too do both the opportunities vulnerabilities for the enterprise increase. It becomes more ... http://grmp.org/blog/?p=14 Who knows what will happen next in the world of social networks? One thing is for sure, Google has taken a step that will make their own leadership online that much stronger, with the opening up of OpenSocial. "OpenSocial defines a common API for social applications across multiple websites" is what the ... http://grmp.org/blog/?p=13 It appears that the holy grail of computing, proving that artificial intelligence can equal that of the human being, is about to be tested. The Turing test, named after Allen Turing, is about proving that a computer can communicate with a human without the human knowing that the party on the ... http://grmp.org/blog/?p=12 As a result of a US$55,000,000 gift from Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft, a new project to map the human brain has been launched. “The Human Genome Project was the ‘what’, and our project is the ‘where’,” says Allan Jones, the institute’s chief scientific officer. http://grmp.org/blog/?p=11 Its amazing how much one can see the waves of public opinion forming with social media. I think it must have been about two years ago that I first started reading about the risk of a sub prime meltdown in the US. There are a lot of people who have built ... http://grmp.org/blog/?p=10