Posts Tagged ‘Web’


Why Crowdsourcing Is Hot

25/5/2010 | crowdsourcing | philipletts | 2 Comments

Crowdsourcing is becoming the Web’s hottest buzzword. It could kickstart the next Web. Like blogging, Web 2.0, social networking and social media defined the last decade of the Internet, Crowdsourcing could shape the next. And it should.


Design is the New Global Currency

2/3/2010 | blur Designs | philipletts | No Comments

It used to be that great design cost the earth. Leading design agencies positioned themselves as reassuringly expensive. Assured rip off more like. That was before the Internet spawned over 210 Million Websites. Before one third of the US working population found itself in design related jobs. Before Apple. Pre Steve.


b-uncut: An Art Revolution

27/1/2010 | b-uncut | philipletts | No Comments

A quiet revolution is under way in the art world. One that few expected and most missed. Because it’s on the Web; called b-uncut. It was started in 2007 by a group of contemporary artists, led by Philip Letts, as a new kind of collective. One without borders. One bound by the Web. They’re vision [...]


Is Twitter the Web’s Greatest Ponzi Scheme?

22/9/2009 | Social Media | philipletts | No Comments

Is Twitter the Web’s greatest Ponzi scheme and Evan Williams the Madoff of the information age? Will this ‘pulse of the Web’ communications house of cards finally collapse when the vast majority of Twitter users figure out that the vast, vast majority of their ‘followers’ are nothing like followers and probably never will be. Is [...]