Lots of work, moving to Mitte and some updates on recent talks in this Week Note.

I was asked recently by a German agency to give an introduction to location-based services. This is what I went with (sorry, no English version). As I presented, mostly using a flip-chart, this deck has some rather ugly scribblings in it. I apologize.

The videos of all Next Conference 2011 presentations are available online now. Here we collected the talks from the Social Layer track that we curated this year. Enjoy! Matt Gierhart (Ogilvy Action): Social Activation: Eyeballs Don’t Equal Sales? David Noël (SoundCloud): The Secret Diary of a Community Evangelist Matt Stinchcomb (Etsy): Community Matters Bastian Unterberg [...]

Our friends at LHBS invited us to Vienna to give an Uncomfortable Talk. It was the second in a series of provocative and inspirational speeches about marketing & innovation and curated by LHBS.

Matt Biddulph talked about City Analytics at the conference. He is currently Head of Data Strategy for Ovi products at Nokia. A co-founder of Dopplr (acquired by Nokia in 2009), he has previously worked at the UK Press Association and the BBC, always focusing on data-driven products and finding patterns in information. Deck on Slideshare

Adam Greenfield from Urbanscale kicked off our Cognitive Cities Conference with his talk “On Public Objects – Connected Things And Civic Responsibilities In The Networked City”.

Toute L’Europe and the Goethe Institute in Paris invited me to be part of a panel about the affect of social media on politics. While the topic in itself is certainly not new, I decided to go, because it was a good opportunity to dive into the French debate. As you would expect, the Goethe [...]