Jude Fiorillo
Jude Fiorillo is a Research Analyst at nGenera, focusing on Marking 2.0 research. His intellectual insight is derived from an academic background in business and psychology, combined with varied work experiences, a passion for people and technology, and extended living in diverse cities throughout Canada and China.
Jude has a background in consulting, as well as several years of management experience at an interactive technology center. These learning opportunities contrast with his employment at two non-profit organizations, where he provided supporting services to people with disabilities and new immigrants. Jude received an Honours B.Comm from Queen’s School of Business for his study of marketing, strategy, and psychology, where he was a recipient of numerous awards recognizing his business acumen at local, national, and international levels. His principal interests are, social behaviour and technology, and the intersection between the two, which is where things start to get interesting in a Wikinomics world.
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October 13th, 2008, 10:36pm
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Welcome back to another edition of the Wikinomics Roundup: Week in Review, where I capture in brief, some of the thoughts, discoveries, and discussions that graced the blog throughout the past week.
This week in the roundup:
- Jeff DeChambeau discussed privacy and digital surveillance
- Dan Herman introduced us to ‘vote swapping’ and identified how this Web 2.0 technology now has the potential to influence elections
- Don Tapscott highlighted some new research findings in order address a common misconception about video games and gamers
- Denis Hancock reviewed some of the pitfalls of the traditional crowdsourcing model and introduced us to Poptent
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September 23rd, 2008, 12:05am
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Welcome back to another edition of the Wikinomics Roundup: Week in Review, where I capture in brief, some of the thoughts, discoveries, and discussions that graced the blog throughout the past week.
This week in the roundup:
- Jeff DeChambeau revealed the new beta of the Wikinomics blog
- Ian Da Silva uncovered the power of the social web for consumers
- Patrick Harnett introduced us to Wesabe and money management on the Web
- Andrea Bettello shined the light on a different type of TV experience
In case you missed it, you can catch the last roundup HERE.
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August 28th, 2008, 04:28pm
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Welcome back to The netGuide, where I talk briefly about some of my findings from across the web and how they help solve old problems in new and creative ways. This week…
We’re going to investigate the idea of search and information management with searchme.com, a great search engine that has quietly made its way onto the scene, but which has unique advantages to search.
What’s special about this search engine is that when you query a topic, the websites returned to you are displayed visually (similar to Apple’s cover flow) rather than in list form. A picture is worth 1000 words so they say, so it makes sense that with 1 quick look at the preview pane of a website, you can better filter your results, and roughly gauge the quality of the website (by it’s professionalism and aesthetic, available content, and general message). It’s clear that you receive less information about all items, relative to each other, in one glance than with traditional search engines like Google, however what you do see, you are given more information about - this represents the tradeoff between these two methods of search. The obvious benefit is the handling of media search, such as video and images, which you can view in pane, as opposed to Google’s one page of smaller pictures (which does not handle video search well). The second benefit is not quite as obvious and speaks in large part, to how we interact with the Internet at large…
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August 26th, 2008, 01:14am
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Welcome back to another edition of the Wikinomics Roundup: Week in Review, where I capture in brief, some of the thoughts, discoveries, and discussions that graced the blog throughout the past week.
In case you missed it, you can catch last week’s roundup HERE. Friendly reminder: the Wikinomics Roundup has a home on the left side of the page, under Regular Features.
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August 15th, 2008, 05:12pm
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Welcome back to another edition of the Wikinomics Roundup! This time around, we’re going to do a two week roundup, where I capture in brief, some of the thoughts, discoveries, and discussions that graced the blog throughout that period. There’s some great material so take a look!
In case you missed it, you can catch last week’s roundup HERE. Friendly reminder: the Wikinomics Roundup has a nice new home on the left side of the page, under Regular Features.
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August 8th, 2008, 03:04pm
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As part of my effort to help you find meaning(ful applications) in your e-life, i’m starting a regular column called The netGuide. In these blog posts I will briefly talk about some of my website findings from across the web and how they help solve old problems in new and creative ways.
In today’s web wanderings we’re going deep into birdy territory with a.viary.com - a comprehensive suite of free online software that promises to be the next generation of media editing. Invites inside.
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August 6th, 2008, 10:19am
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With over one hundred million unique websites on the Internet it’s hard not to feel lost. As casual, and even sophisticated Internet users, there is often a major disconnect between the tools and applications that we want to be using to make our lives easier and richer (but have no idea exist), and the sub-standard ones that we actually use (for lack of a better option), or alternatively, refuse to use for poor quality and design reasons.
As part of my effort to help you find meaning(ful applications) in your e-life, i’m hoping to start a regular column called The netGuide. In these blog posts I will briefly talk about some of my website findings from across the web and how they help solve old problems in new and creative ways. The caveat is that although they may be new to me, they may not be to you - but hopefully this is the exception rather than the rule.
Website: SocialSpark
Category: Advertising and Blogging
Web Traffic: From nothing in the fall of 2007 to ranked 5,344 globally according to Alexa.
Why Care: SocialSpark is a website that facilitates the efficient exchange of pay-per-blog advertising. One of the distinguishing features of the website is its ad marketplace, where advertisers outline the word of mouth message they want produced, medium (text or video), and the price they are willing to pay for it (e.g. $9 to say XYZ).
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August 5th, 2008, 11:51am
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Welcome back to another edition of the Wikinomics Roundup: Week in Review, where I capture in brief, some of the thoughts, discoveries, and discussions that graced the blog throughout the past week.
In case you missed it, you can catch last week’s roundup HERE. Friendly reminder: the Wikinomics Roundup has a nice new home on the left side of the page, under Regular Features.
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August 1st, 2008, 10:24am
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This week we take another look at the coverage that Wikinomics — both the book and the principles — is receiving across the Internet.
The Letture blog provides a comprehensive discussion on open source, prosumption, innovation, and other Wikinomics principles. Thorough and full of examples.
Oscar Berg over at the Content Economy blog, shares a few of his readings from across the blogosphere. Included is Stewart Mader’s Wikinomics guest post on Wikis.
Sampad Swain defines the activities of Internet users by a ‘SOS-CAR’ model (Searching, Organizing, Scrutinizing, Collaborating, Authenticating, and Reading) and describes these thoughts as being partly inspired by Wikinomics. Many familiar themes emerge.
Going back a few weeks we can read Canadian Business’ interview with Don Tapscott, co-author of Wikinomics and chairman of nGenera. The interview discusses leadership, innovation, and how IT is changing the organization.
We’ll be back next week with more links to Wikinomics in the blogosphere!
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July 28th, 2008, 08:08pm
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Welcome back to another edition of the Wikinomics Roundup: Week in Review! In this week’s roundup, I will capture in brief, some of the thoughts, discoveries, and discussions that graced the blog throughout the past week.
In case you missed it, you can catch last week’s roundup HERE. From now on the Wikinomics Roundup will have a nice new home on the left side of the page, under Regular Features. Come visit!
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July 21st, 2008, 10:06pm
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Welcome back to another edition of the Wikinomics Roundup: Week in Review! Over the next few minutes I will try and capture in brief, some of the thoughts, discoveries, and discussions that graced the blog throughout the past week.
In case you missed it, you can catch last week’s roundup HERE.
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July 14th, 2008, 12:31am
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Whether you’re a regular reader, or just pop in occasionally, it’s not always easy to keep up with our Wikinomics blog content. With this in mind, we have created the Wikinomics Roundup: Week in Review, to try and capture in brief, some of the thoughts, discoveries, and discussions that graced the blog from the past week.
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July 11th, 2008, 11:06am
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One hundred and seventy-two million, three hundred and thirty-eight thousand; this is the number of unique websites on the Internet, as estimated by Netcraft, a well-respected UK based company. This is a staggering number of ‘virtual destinations,’ (approximately 1 website for every 39 people in the world) and even when you consider that these sites are spread across various languages and functions, there are still millions of websites that are relevant to people across the globe.
The truth is that the Internet is so vast that no living person could physically keep abreast of it all – if you tried to view a million websites for 1 minute each, it would take you over 3 years of waking life to see it all…and by then it would likely be outdated. The focus must then become, how does one find on the Internet, only those things that are relevant to one’s specific interests and needs, i.e. valuable content.
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July 7th, 2008, 04:13pm
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What interests me most about the Internet is that it is a reflection of the physical world, and the same people, information, and problems inhabit both worlds. In the physical world it’s easy to experience information overload but because we approach this world in a linear, case-by-case fashion (time structure), it can serve to temper how much information we are exposed to all at once. In the virtual world, everything is non-linear (no time structure), which means that you can get access to anything you want at any time, but because of this, it’s much harder to manage information because there’s so much of it coming at you. Enter Dipity – this free, and easy to use application proposes that time can work for you on the Internet, and I’m inclined to agree. Dipity timeline tools allow you to manage online media by ordering related content chronologically. By using Dipity you can create a slick timeline interface that allows you to keep track of videos, pictures, blog posts, and RSS feeds, and I suspect that these applications are just the beginning. We’ve created a timeline for the Wikinomics blog, and it’s easy to see how having visual feedback helps in the way we view and access information.
Derek Dukes, CEO and co-founder of Dipity was kind of enough to sit down with us to talk about this quickly growing company, and what follows are excerpts from that discussion.
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July 2nd, 2008, 06:39pm
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It’s no secret that Google sees mobile phones as an emerging frontier for search; as smart phones (and carriers’ data plans) become more sophisticated, it becomes possible to interactively exchange data in new and innovative ways, while also allowing people to tap into existing sources of information, such as the Internet. Google recognizes that the cell phone is developing along the same path that the personal computer did – it is a tool that we increasingly use to connect ourselves to people and relevant information, wherever we go. The question for Google then becomes, in what ways can it enable people by connecting them with the information that they need, as well as advertisements that provide relevant solutions.
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June 27th, 2008, 05:58pm
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Last week in my post about the evolution of entertainment I used a quote from Will Wright, the co-founder of Maxis, who said “…I think the most important thing that computers do for us…is that they extend our imagination.” And Mr. Wright and his team of programmers have indeed created a computer generated world that extends our imagination, while also being a world that grows and thrives by virtue of how imaginative its users are. This is the world of Spore, a game that is being developed for PC, Nintendo DS, iPhone, and with plans underway for the Wii, PS3, and Xbox 360. Read More »
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June 17th, 2008, 02:21pm
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“You can take any core human technology and kind of understand it as an extension of the human body. So in some sense, cars are an extension of our legs, television extends our eyesight, telephones extend our voice, and a house and clothing extend our skin and our body. Computers really do a lot of these things, but really, I think the most important thing that computers do for us…is that they extend our imagination.”
- Will Wright, co-founder of Maxis
I like this quote because it really captures the essence of technology, in relation to how we, as people, interact with it – we are using technology to extend our senses. Humans have always developed tools to enhance their physical and mental abilities, but as technology progresses, we are experiencing an increasingly sophisticated level of sensory feedback that changes the way we entertain ourselves. Read More »
