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In my del.icio.us account I have a tag for "public relations," one for "public_relations" and another one for "pr." The problem is, I mean all of these to be the same tag – but right now they are separate. Now extend this phenomenon across millions of other tagged links and you will get a sense … Read more
One of the most popular portal sites today started with a list of Jerry Yang’s favourite sites. As Jerry grew his directory of sites into the megaportal of Yahoo – he also gave birth to an idea that was copied across the Internet. Then Google came along and Yahoo’s directory suddenly became a tool for … 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
In yet another example of bad blog news for Dell, the NY Times carried a feature piece this weekend about their spontaneously combusting laptop. Unfortunately for Dell, there are some photos running around online of the combustion, and it is growing in a Kryptonite bike lock kind of way. The company line at the moment … 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
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
One of the biggest buzz-inducing topics at Vloggercon this weekend was the concept of product placement in online video content and how this ability to incorporate an advertiser’s message directly into the story might offer vlogs the greatest chance of winning traditional TV advertisers. There are a few shows, like FrenchMaidTV or 88Slide that I … Read more
This weekend I am here in San Francisco for Vloggercon 2006, a small video blogging conference I have been working with over the past few weeks as a sponsor (through both Ogilvy and Intel) as well as an enthusiastic supporter of getting more people into vlogging. Aside from being the first time that I have … 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.
