The Watchmen film isn’t out yet and debate online has already kicked off regarding the movie tie-in merchandise. Wired has got in on the act and you can find other points of view here. However one I item I thought was a nice touch was Nite Owl Coffee made by Veidt Industries. It is really [...]
It used to be that you had to worry about data fragments in your word processor files giving away information relating to early drafts of press materials. Now online documents have a similar kind of problem with Google. I got a narrow escape when I worked at Yahoo!. We built a site that was supposed [...]
banks, originally uploaded by renaissancechambara. Your industry takes down the global economy and becomes a plausible villain in a spy thriller. A classic example would be The International, a new film featuring Clive Owen as the leading man combating a supremely powerful bank involved in arms trading and murder. Like banks in real-life, the one [...]
I met up with Tim Hoang earlier in January and he marked this book for my reading list. The book’s primary goal is explaining the Small World phenomenon as a modern network theory. Buchanan begins by explaining Stanley Milgram’s social network experiment of the sixties which revealed that there are rarely more than six steps [...]
EETimes.com – Analysis: Japan’s electronics giants face inevitable breakup Microsoft Chief Still Stuck on Yahoo – DealBook Blog – NYTimes.com Ballmer: Office 14 not this year | All about Microsoft | ZDNet.com TWEAKBENCH – free VST plugins for windows. free VST instruments and free VST effects Ballmer on iPhone: Mr. Mojo Risin – Microsoft knocked [...]
Information technology has been called high technology for years in a reverential way. Lots of smart things have happened in the computing field over the past three decades. Computers have become our constant companions as smartphones, netbooks and laptops. Internet access is now a necessity rather than the luxury it was ten years ago. However [...]
Ian Jindal – digital shorts at the Sense Loft, originally uploaded by renaissancechambara. Ian Jindal was on top form at the Sense Loft where he presented some interesting ideas about the future of retail. I made some notes on the presentation in real time on my mobile phone and will try to elaborate around them [...]
EXOVISTA.COM – replacement lens kits for Oakley X-metal frames, not sure why Oakley allows them to get away with it, but they make some top notch lenses beyond conversation: what web 2.0 can do for your agency « balancing act Real-time Reputation Management Solutions : dna13 Why the Click Is the Wrong Metric for Online [...]
During the last technology recession one of my colleagues used to sell public relations services as ‘free advertising’ because it resonated with a number of clients that he spoke with. Nowadays I have been hearing similar things regarding social media, and if I thought it was just the circles that I move in, Gerry McCluster’s [...]
I have my broadband dongle and mobile phone contract on Three. For the most part I have been happy with their service. Three like home where Three UK users can use their networks in other countries as if they were on their home network is one of them’duh’ why didn’t anybody else think of that [...]
Wadds wrote this post about public relations and SEO which summarised a discussion on Twitter. He articulates the consumers increasingly now use a reputation funnel when making important decisions. Starting with Google and then moving on to the trusted web: this maybe social networks, micromedia like Twitter or even social bookmarking services like delicious. This [...]
How to Reach Baby Boomers with Social Media – ReadWriteWeb Memory upgrades, flash media, and usb storage at Crucial.com Gel conference: exploring good experience – kind of like TED, seems really interesting The First Worldwide Website Where Nothing Happens – creative genius How to Reach Baby Boomers with Social Media – ReadWriteWeb Speedytrek | Expose [...]
I didn’t start reading economics for fun until I read Will Hutton’s The State We’re In when I was in college. I was interested to find out what Hutton thought about China and the west. China has a history of technological and legal progression going back three millenia and made an unprecedented move back to [...]
I spoke earlier this week at an eTourism Forum in Cyprus. It was my first time on the island. It is an interesting mix of contrasts: The main language is Greek, but everyone speaks English Everyone drives on the leftside of the road and the even the road signs look British The island has a [...]
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