Tech Stuff That Will Rock Your World

PAUL G ILL INSPEAKER, AUTHOR, JOURNAL IST

PAUL@GILL IN .COM@PGILL IN

“40% of the companies in this room won't exist in a meaningful way in 10 years unless they change dramatically.”

--Cisco CEO John Chambers to a Wall Street Journal conference, Feb., 2015

Customers in Control

Paid product placements

Print/TV ads

Billboards

Emails I describe to

Media articles

Branded websites

Consumer opinions posted online

Recommendations from people I know

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Most Trusted Sources of Buying Advice

Trust completely or somewhat Don't trust much at allSource: Crowdtap, 2012

OTHERS LIKE US

TripAdvisor averages 340 million monthly visitors, hosts more than 225 million reviews and operates in 45 countries.

Yelp had 142 million monthly unique visitors in the first quarter of 2015. It hosts 77 million customer reviews

WHERE YOU GONNA STAY?

CRISIS IN PROCESS

FROM THE MOUTHS OF BABES

March 6, 2012March 5, 2012

OUT OF NOWHERE

The Ballad of Lean, Finely Textured Beef

3/7/12ABC World News

features a segment on "pink slime"

3/14/12Congresswoman Chellie

Pingree and 41 Congress members ask U.S.

Agriculture Secretary to stop using LFTB in the school lunch program.

3/21/12Safeway, Albertsons, Shop 'n Save, Farm

Fresh, Kroger, and Food Lion say they will drop

LFTB products.

3/25/12Beef Products, Inc.

suspends operations in three states and idles

650 employees

4/3/12Blaming the "pink slime" backlash,

ground beef processor AFA Foods files for

bankruptcy.

Competing with Data

Workforce Automation

“Things looked bleak for the Angels when they trailed by two runs in the ninth inning, but Los Angeles recovered thanks to a key single from Vladimir Guerrero to pull out a 7-6 victory over the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park on Sunday”

“Kitty couldn’t fall asleep for a long time. Her nerves were strained as two tight strings, and even a glass of hot wine, that Vronsky made her drink, did not help her. Lying in bed she kept going over and over that monstrous scene at the meadow.”

I asked [Narrative Science CTO] Kristian Hammond what percentage of news would be written by computers in 15 years. ‘More than 90 percent.’”

--Steven Levy, Wired, 4/24/12

Intersection Points

PAUL G ILL INSPEAKER, AUTHOR, JOURNAL IST

PAUL@GILL IN .COM@PGILL IN