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Below is the presentation on the Human Side of Search that I gave today at the Search Insider Summit here in Keystone, Colorado (right click image or link to download PDF): UPDATE – The MP3 version of this presentation is now live. The concepts outlined in this presentation are also further explored in three previous … Read more
Everyone is an expert in something, as the powerful old tagline from Seth Godin’s Squidoo initially promised when the site launched. Squidoo is one of a number of sites that are tapping into these distributed pockets of expertise in an effort to help individuals benefit from the skills and knowledge of one another to find … Read more
As more and more content gets posted online by organizations and individuals, the barriers to finding the content that truly matters are getting higher. Search algorithms are valuable for helping to sort through this information, but unfortunately the automated approach can only go so far and falls short when it comes to less well recognized … Read more
It was only a matter of time before smell became a marketing tool. Along with human scientific advances following from the groundbreaking mapping the human genome was the ability to crack the code on the genome of smell. And once this code was cracked, replicating smells in automated ways became possible. Recent reports from Tokyo … Read more
Visiting the PopTech blog I came across a link to this hilarious video spoof of the Mac ads that brilliantly counter the same messages Apple is sending with an equally powerful message that plays to PC users. Mac users love the simplicity, speed, style, and integrated software products that come with their machines. But PC … Read more
Ten years ago, a good domain name was the most important thing in the world. Companies bid millions of dollars to get the right domain name, legal battles ensued over who should rightfully own a domain, and registering the right domain name was usually the first step in launching a company, campaign or new tagline. … Read more
Thanks to all for their patience while I pulled together this week’s Carnival of Marketing over the holiday weekend (in the US). The posts from this week range from new great content online, such as TEDTalks, to new ideas like the Earthboards or marketing in SecondLife, to highlighting several posts from newer blogs out there … Read more
One of the more popular blogs on marketing and PR today is Media Orchard. Scott’s "Pick of the Orchard" are very useful daily posts on the top five or so marketing and PR related links worth reading online. Piers does the same thing on marketing news and trends on both PSFK and Marktd. Every once … Read more
Digg.com is a great resource for client research. For all of our tech clients, it’s a useful site to keep track of the most popular news stories in the tech industry. The site’s model of allowing users to vote for their favourite articles or blog posts and allowing the votes to dictate which appear more … Read more
Wikimapia is one of the most recent mashups with Google maps getting a lot of love on del.icio.us lately. The site is a global effort to get people to describe the places they live in the same way that Wikipedia has become a global encyclopedia of knowledge on nearly every topic in the world. The … Read more
Non-Obvious Thinking is my latest book about the 4 secrets of becoming a non-obvious thinker - relesaed 10/01/2024.
Rohit Bhargava is a trend curator, founder of the Non-Obvious Company and the 3-time Wall Street Journal bestselling author of ten books.
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In addition to Non-Obvious Thinking, Rohit is the author of 10 books on trends, the future of business, building a more human brand with storytelling and how to create a more diverse and inclusive world.
