The incredible shrinking operating system | InfoWorld | Analysis | 2009-02-09 | By Ephraim Schwartz – more like right-sizing the operating system How Important Is Search to Users? – eMarketer – very. Social Media Success begins with the Basics – Authenticities – Edelman Digital Beet.TV: Akamai CTO: Adaptive Streaming from Adobe and Microsoft Will be [...]
I have been a fan of Neal Stephenson’s work for a good while. Snow Crash, The Diamond Age and Cryptonomicon are seminal works of cyber punk literature and Cobweb is a great comedic thriller. Some of the Baroque Cycle left me cold, but I know others who enjoyed them. Anathem is a very different beast [...]
Hotel room view in Causeway Bay, originally uploaded by renaissancechambara. I arrived in Hong Kong safely thanks to Cathay Pacific, I was more traumatised by my technology than the culture and temperature shock. My Nokia E90 suddenly decided that it has a battery life of half an hour. I thought that I had resolved this [...]
Hubert Morrison famously said ‘Oh the humanity’ in his live commentary as the Hindenberg burst into flames and it then became a meme in American culture used in a mostly satirical way to ridicule, diminish and trivialize deep emotional feelings that are part of the human condition. Morrison’s commentary was the first pre-recorded news report. [...]
What Are You Looking At? Google Details Results of Eye Tracking Study – ReadWriteWeb Enhancing Organisational Performance Management with the Influence Scorecard – MarCom Professional
I had been thinking about this for a while and my interest in it got reignited over lunch with Wadds just before Christmas. We were discussing the pros and cons of sharing expertise on a blog or other social media, particularly when it comes to marketing and marketing communications disciplines. On the one hand, its [...]
don’t go dizzy: Risky Business Blinkx adds couch potato mode to video site | Digital Media – CNET News Make Love Not Porn :: Porn World vs. Real World- Interesting site dealing with some of the cultural issues caused by pornography Raven Internet Marketing Tools for SEO & Social Media recommended by Tim Hoang SocialWhois [...]
Hello Kitty, originally uploaded by renaissancechambara. I got sent this for Christmas as a joke by a colleague based out of Hong Kong. It is about two foot wide and sits on top of the desk phone in my office. It is the interesting seeing the reaction it gets from people from being creeped out [...]
Some of my friends live in Tooting (after Balham on the Northern Line) and they introduced me to The Selkirk. The pub is a few minutes walk from Tooting Broadway underground station. The pub is based just off the rather unpromising high street with its fried chicken restaurants and, Lidl supermarket and Primark clothes shop. [...]
JAPAN BRAND – some really nice inspirational stuff here Wadds’ tech pr blog: CIPR needs to catch-up on social media guidelines How to Translate Vendor Talk into Plain English – its funny how much of this works for PR company presentations too 10 Privacy Settings Every Facebook User Should Know The Retro Image Apparel Company [...]
china town, originally uploaded by renaissancechambara. Chinatown this morning. I loved the lanterns left over from the new year celebrations, a cheery site with all the wintry weather.
I took a bit of time out and enjoyed some of the more touristy attractions in London. I have worked for almost 11 years in the West End and Covent Garden area, yet had yet to attend the London Transport Museum. When I first came down to London I marveled at the engineering effort that [...]
Marketing, Apple Daily tops local news sites, HONG KONG, e-Marketing, Print, Newspapers, Research findings, | Market-interactive.com Inspirational Index – Ian Jindal and the team at Internet Retailing need your help. Bob the Impaler – interesting take on Microsoft’s recent financial results Wikianswers Q&A Site Launched by Wikipedia Why attacking the press during elections never works [...]
My friend Rachel tagged me on Facebook on a meme where you have to pontificate about 25 random things. There seems to be a bit of a sub-text in the meme that these random things will provide a bit of colour about you: Not particularly sure why I got tagged on this, but I’m game [...]
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