http://electricsheep.co.za Bl33ts for the Digital Age Wed, 17 Sep 2014 13:15:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 http://electricsheep.co.za/hatching-twitter/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hatching-twitter http://electricsheep.co.za/hatching-twitter/#comments Wed, 15 Jan 2014 17:00:23 +0000 http://electricsheep.co.za/?p=205 by Adam Skikne Hatching Twitter by Nick Bilton tells the true story of Twitter’s four co-founders (Ev Williams, Noah Glass, Biz Stone and Jack Dorsey) who transformed a small side project at a failing start up into to a multi-billion dollar company that literally changed the world. Basically, the book is to Twitter what The Accidental Billionaires (the book that The Social Network is based on) is to Facebook. And it’s awesome (#justsaying). One of the most interesting things in the book is that the idea for Twitter didn’t just come from one person. Each of Twitter’s co-founders helped shape […]]]> http://electricsheep.co.za/hatching-twitter/feed/ 0 http://electricsheep.co.za/age-of-context/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=age-of-context http://electricsheep.co.za/age-of-context/#comments Wed, 25 Sep 2013 05:36:38 +0000 http://electricsheep.co.za/?p=164 by Adam Skikne     Age of Context is a new book by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel that is a must-read for anyone who is interested in the future of technology, social media, digital and business. The book details how companies are using the convergence of five key forces (mobile, social media, data, sensors and location) to create a new wave of smarter products and services. The book is literally fascinating and should get you excited about how technology is going to change our lives in the near future. Here are a few key trends that we can look […]]]> http://electricsheep.co.za/age-of-context/feed/ 3 http://electricsheep.co.za/the-new-digital-age/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-new-digital-age http://electricsheep.co.za/the-new-digital-age/#comments Sun, 26 May 2013 19:40:04 +0000 http://electricsheep.co.za/?p=58 by @adamskikne In The New Digital Age, Executive Chairman of Google, Eric Schmidt, and Director of Google Ideas, Jared Cohen, look to the future and try to predict what implications technology will have on a world that is becoming increasingly connected. The New Digital Age was one of the books I was most looking forward to reading this year and I enjoyed it immensely. If you are interested in technology in any way, this book is a must read. Here are just a few predictions from The New Digital Age: The Next 5 Billion In the next decade, 5 billion […]]]> http://electricsheep.co.za/the-new-digital-age/feed/ 1