Los Angeles DJ Jesse BoyToy Lozano does a live broadcast at 35,000 feet above San Francisco after connecting to the Internet at the launch of Virgin Americas Gogo In-Flight Internet service.
YouTube has broadcast its first live event, an extravaganza which was part concert and part variety show and which drew comments from viewers ranging from “AWESOME!” to “train wreck.”
On Friday was the Fifth Birthday of the Flying Wombats.
I started the Flying Wombats on Friday Nov 21, 2003 online. The Flying Wombats is an online network of membership clubs based on my W.O.M.B.A.T. model first described in The X10 Memeplex, (Chapter 29 Devils & Wombats) and later written up in detail in WOMBAT SELLING: How to sell by Word of Mouth.
You can download your own copy of the book by clicking here.
There are no more than 10 members in any Flying WOMBAT Club. Each club practises a range of leadership, business and educational activities.
Go Wombats!
At the 2008 Los Angeles Auto Show, Honda showed off a supercar concept, the FC Sport, powered by an electric motor with energy generated by a hydrogen fuel cell.
The fuel-cell powertrain, which Honda calls V Flow, is being used in the FCX Clarity, the hydrogen-fueled sedan that Honda currently leases on a limited basis.
The FC Sport is designed to be a lightweight, performance-oriented car, and should have a 0-to-60 mph time of under 4 seconds to achieve supercar status. While Honda is known for producing fuel-efficient compact cars in the U.S., it garners performance expertise by competing in F1 and IRL racing.
The current dramatic evolution of global financial institutions has brought us to a real abyss of economic woes and challenges. For some this abyss will be short and shallow and for others it will be long and deep.
Notwithstanding these facts, time will not stand still. So, what happens next? What will happen beyond this abyss?
Beyond the abyss there will be more business opportunities than you have ever before witnessed in your own business lifetime.
I’ve had two best-sellers which address these issues: Software For Your Brain and NewSell.
In 2000, I published The X10 Memeplex: Multiply Your Business By Ten! This X10 book showed how business leaders must escape from the traditional 10% growth rate and graduate their business to the X10 growth rate by harnessing the brainpower of their stakeholders.
The X10 book shows that we live in exponential times.
Have you heard, for example, that:
• China will soon become the #1 English speaking company in the world
• 25% of India’s population with the highest IQ is greater than the total US population.
• The top ten in-demand jobs in 2010 did not yet exist in 2004.
• We are currently preparing kids for jobs that don’t yet exist using technologies that haven’t yet been invented in order to solve problems that we don’t know are problems yet.
• 1 in 8 weddings in the US in 2007 were couples who met online.
• There are over 200 million registered users on MySpace which if it were a country, MySpace would be the 5th largest in the world between Indonesia and Brazil.
• Today, there are 31 billion googlers every month. In 2006, there were 2.7 billion.
• The first customer to receive a commercial SMS text message was in December 1992. In December 2008 the number of text messages sent and received every day will exceed the total population of Planet Earth.
• Speaking of commercial communication, how long has it taken evolving technologies to reach an audience of 50 million?
- RADIO took 38 years.
- TV took 13 years.
- WWW took 4 years.
- iPod took 3 years.
- Facebook took 2 years.
• In 1984 there were 1000 internet devices. In 1992 there were 1000.000 internet devices. In 2008 there are 1,000,000,000 internet devices.
• A week’s worth of The Melbourne Age contains more information today than a person was likely to come across in a lifetime in the 18th century. In 2008 the amount of unique information generated will be more than all the information of the last 5000 years.
• Because the amount of technical information is doubling every 2 years, year 12 students starting a 4 year technical degree in 2009 will find that 50% of what they learn next year will already be outdated on Graduation Day by the time they finish their degree.
• NTT Japan has already developed a fibre optic cable that sucks 14 trillion bits per second down a single strand of fibre. That’s the equivalent of 2,660 CDs or 210 million phone calls EVERY SECOND! These staggering communications numbers are tripling every 6 months and will do so for the next 10 years.
• By 2013–in just 5 years–a hypercomputer will be built (probably by IBM) that will surpass the computational capabilities of the human brain.
• In 40 years it is predicted that a $1000 computer will exceed the computational capabilities of the entire human species.
• While you were reading this message 67 babies were born in the US, 274 babies were born in China, 395 babies were born in India and 694,000 songs were downloaded illegally.
The big question is: What does this mean to you, to your clients, and to their customers?
In my NEWSELL presentations I discuss these questions with my audiences and I show them how to use the NEWSELL strategy to maximise their conversations with their customers and to get their team to make the most of these exponential times. Newsell is now the fastest growing sales strategy in the world.
It might seem counterintuitive to start a new business when the economy is in the dumps. But a recession can actually be the ideal time for launching a company. In fact, many well-known and successful organizations were born during an economic slump.
Why do these companies succeed? Usually it’s because the founders recognized a market need and filled it.
Identifying that need — whether it’s related to entertainment, travel or even streamlining how businesses operate — is the key to any thriving enterprise, regardless of the economic climate in which it begins. The following major corporations made it big during recessions by doing just that.
Over the past several years, technology designed for eavesdropping has found a new home in corporate call centers, recording and analyzing millions of phone conversations between customer service agents and consumers in an effort to better digest and organize what customers are saying.
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