The mainstream adoption of cloud and semantic technologies will turn the internet into a ‘ubiquitous utility’, says Boris Motusic, Chief Evangelist of United Experts, in this interview for Brightfire.

- Boris, during your Internet World speech you proclaimed the arrival of the Web 3.0! What exactly is it?

- The key feature of Web 3.0, or better said – Internet 3.0, is its ubiquitousness. We will be creating and consuming information without being aware of doing so. We are moving away from classic machines which require a lot of input and interaction towards devices and, more importantly, infrastructures which would enable us to forget about the machine and focus on content, thus providing and obtaining relevant information or help with getting a job done.

What does the Google Penguin update mean for SEO and how will it affect your search rankings? With the digital hullabaloo surrounding the latest Google algorithm update, we tried to get some clarity by curating the five top stories on the subject in Storify.

Learn how to Turn your Website into a Lead Generation Engine from Brightfire’s Director Johnny Mone at Targeting Innovation Brown Bag Lunch. Johnny will kick-start the three-part series of informal events, organised by our friends from Targeting Innovation, with a free session on 31 May. He will be dishing out advice on: – How to [...]

“Social media is cool… but what’s the ROI?” This is the first question that is sure to pop in the mind of a CEO upon the very mention of “social”. And rightly so. No self-respecting marketing officer should approach social media without a clear view of the objectives of using the channel in question and [...]

The term “curation” has migrated from the physical world of art to the digital domain as we increasingly apply it in the context of our online activities. Content curation is becoming the norm for marketers and publishers as we reuse, remix and recycle text, images and video that have appeared elsewhere on the web. In [...]

With all the talk about relevance, personalisation and consumer-centricity, one would expect that marketers would know the ins and outs of their customer’s journey, providing content when and where their audiences need it. But sadly, this doesn’t happen to be the case, according to a recent cross-industry study.