I came across Nexus: a facebook application which shows the relationships between your facebook friends. I was impressed by the groupings, which differentiated between groupings that I knew through social media, my time working inhouse and agency life as three clusters. But better than all that it just looks so darned pretty, kind of like [...]
Facebook Exodus – NYTimes.com Microsoft’s secret ‘screw Google’ meetings in D.C. — DailyFinance – reminds me of the old ‘anti-Linux’ programmes and the infamous Hallowe’en documents. Haute Dim Sum in Hong Kong – The Moment Blog – NYTimes.com – Dim sum restaurants for me to check out next time that I am over in Hong [...]
Ray Kurzweil is a technological rock star, responsible for great music synthesisers and much of the developments around optical character recognition and speech recognition. This is what makes him a good futurist. The fact that he has had his hands dirty. The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence is a book of [...]
Remembering Ted Kennedy — Big Think Gapers Block – Seven Crimes to Consider Before Music Piracy Altimeter Group Expands With Addition of Industry Veterans – MarketWatch Full List – 50 Best Websites 2009 – TIME Online PR is all about Community – video by the folks at RealWire A consumer paradigm for China – some [...]
It was obvious that Barack Obama represented a change in style, tempo and agenda of the US government, but what wasn’t obvious to the international audience is the cultural impact that Mr Obama has had on his country’s culture. Science fiction mirrors the nature of its society, Invaders of the Bodysnatchers and Starship Troopers were [...]
Live From Yahoo’s “What Matters Most” Event – lemonade from lemons. Dj Lounge – cool radio stations Yahoo’s New Search Clothes — But Will It Help? (Probably Not) FT.com / Technology – Yahoo renews vow to fight Microsoft – yeah right. Bartz has already put the white flag up the pole in Sunnyvale with the [...]
Every financial point of inflection be it a recession or a boom has its signature event. The internet boom was marked by the IPO of Netscape and the merger of AOL with media company Time Warner. The internet bust was marked by Worldcom and Enron’s collapse. The current subprime implosion in the US was marked [...]
The Ethics, Or Lack Thereof, Of Ghost Blogging – I can’t believe that the CIPR just advises members to “exercise caution in terms of ghosting blogs”. They need to grow a pair and just say no. Pearl & Dean – great film finding tool at cinemas
Polaroid pictures are artifacts of a bygone analogue age and the brand once synonymous with instant pictures is now used to brand digital cameras, printers, photo frames and software. Whilst instant film no longer exists, you can still have the same polaroid experience online. Rollip.com is an online service that provides a service which converts [...]
Apple Answers the FCC’s Questions – its mostly about quality and a bit about user experience. Digital: Sony Turns to Male Bloggers for Product Reviews – Advertising Age – Digital – “it’s not quite as simple as giving them a product to review, and asking them to write about it, according to Marcy Cohen, senior [...]
Clever contextual copywriting, originally uploaded by renaissancechambara. I was getting the tube home when I noticed the clever copywriting in this advertisement for Magners Irish Cider. It fitted right in with the stuffy platform.
The Amazon Kindle raised awareness of e-ink and electronic books. Now there are a plethora of ebooks from the likes of Sony and Elonex and there is starting to be a mainstream corresponding marketplace in content. I started reading e-books about eight years ago when I discovered MobiReader software for and Blackmask e-books (since taken [...]
Mobile Ad Spend Will Top $6 Billion In 2014—Still Just A Sliver | mocoNews British Media Companies Slightly More Optimistic about 2H 09 Wanna know about social media in China? « digital CONSORTIUM Digital Music Sounds a Sour Note for Carriers Tech Trader Daily – Barron’s Online : HP CFO Doesn’t See Win 7 Triggering [...]
In the 1980s Nancy Reegan fronted a public service advertising campaign ‘Just say no‘, originally designed to combat rampant cocaine and marijuana usage in the US. About this time Hewlett Packard released one of the first touchscreen computers. The HP-150 was MS-DOS compatible. It was unsuccessful because users didn’t like to take their fingers off [...]
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