There is a sense of déjà vu at this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, says Prof. Javier Zamora. The mobile market is entering a mature stage with companies trying to extract value from a market created by Apple and Google. However, we are entering a new era in which people use mobiles not just […]
20 years of SMS: A Nw Lnge is Brn :)
On December 3, 1992 the first SMS message was sent. These days we use this technology less, but the type of communication that it produced is now an everyday affair, says IESE Prof. Javier Zamora.
Facebook: Act III
Facebook’s share price fell from $38 to $29 in two weeks but this doesn’t mean we are already witnessing the bursting of the social media bubble, says Prof. Javier Zamora. Facebook is a play in three acts, he says. First it accumulated the users, then it raised the capital. In the third act it will […]
Too Much Information
The data explosion is revolutionizing social science because it allows us to look at the individual and not just at the organizational level, says Prof. Javier Zamora. However, our databases aren’t designed to cope with these quantities and we need new data management tools as computers enter a domain previously only inhabited by humans.
