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- The changing user
- Changing business models
- Future tech trends
Riding the Tectonic Plates 3: The Future
Riding the Tectonic Plates 1: The Changing User
Image: Tobias Alt
- The changing user
- Changing business models
- Future tech trends
The question on everyone’s lips: is it opening time yet?
It’s been whirlwind year for open access.
Around this time last September I referred in a post on this blog to the lack of disruption in scientific publishing. My chief source for this remark was Michael Clarke’s post of Scholarly Kitchen from 2010. The subject was discussed a few weeks later at that year’s Semantico Symposium event and none of the very knowledgeable people around the table demurred from the basic picture painted by Clarke. True, a change in the attitude of UK funding councils against impact factor of journals in assessing the quality of university departments was mentioned as something that could have a future disruptive effect. However the next assessment this might affect was not until 2014.
In general however, the view held that OA looked like a bit of slow-burn thing.
One year on, things look very different – from a UK perspective at least. Scientists are in active revolt, governments and high-profile funding bodies have weighed in with their support, and a subject previously of interest only to those within the publishing industry and academe is now all over mainstream media.
It’s interesting to review the timeline of events that have changed the landscape so radically in such a relatively short space of time.
Continue reading The mobile internet takeover: are we there yet?
For a while now we’ve had a chart in our presentation decks about the point at which mobile access to the internet passes desktop. But has this point already been reached?
Back in 2010, Morgan Stanley’s prediction was that ‘Mobile Will Be Bigger Than Desktop Internet in 5 Years’. At about the same time, Gartner forecast that: ‘Mobile phones will overtake PCs as the most common Web access devices worldwide by 2013.
With two quarters of 2012 behind us, it’s worth looking at how those predictions are shaping up, and by one measure at least it looks as if even Gartner’s more aggressive forecast may already have been proven too conservative.
According to figures from IDC (quoted on the SmartOnline blog) smartphones outsold PCs for the first time in Quarter Four 2010, an inflection point predicted not to happen by Morgan Stanley’s Mary Meeker until 2012.
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Source: Morgan Stanley
Surviving and thriving in the social web: 5 strategy tips for publishers
Report from the Semantico Digital Publishing Symposium on Publishing and the Social Web – Part Three
Publishers should place innovation at the heart of their digital enterprise and focus on core specializations and capabilities, among which curation is key. Social media can help them to connect and engage with customers, and collaboration may hold an answer to the problems of large-scale tech competitors/gatekeepers.
These are final findings from our three-part report on the second Semantico Symposium, held recently in London to discuss the impact of social media on publishers and information providers. An invited audience of publishing industry leaders debated the issues under Chatham House rules, covering the following three themes:
Publishers should place innovation at the heart of their digital enterprise and focus on core specializations and capabilities, among which curation is key. Social media can help them to connect and engage with customers, and collaboration may hold an answer to the problems of large-scale tech competitors/gatekeepers.
These are final findings from our three-part report on the second Semantico Symposium, held recently in London to discuss the impact of social media on publishers and information providers. An invited audience of publishing industry leaders debated the issues under Chatham House rules, covering the following three themes:
- Trends and drivers
- Disruptive effects
- Strategy options