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Archive for August 2009

Links of the day

BBC NEWS | Health | Healthcare around the world Cuil Reviews Bing: SEOs Take Notice Blind Search – which search engine results do you prefer take the Pepsi challenge here. I was Google 2 for 2 Legal: How Tesco law will revolutionise PR 15MALAYSIA – great short film project out of Malaysia, thanks to @zilch [...]

Out and about: Napket, Piccadilly, London.

I went to the Royal Academy Summer Show, the highlights of the works on display was David Mach’s postcard montages. Wondering around Piccadilly I came across Napket. My curiosity was piqued the mix of kitsch traditional and modern interior design. Previously The Wolesley restaurant was the place in London for weekend brunch. When I went [...]

Links of the day

FT.com | Tech Blog | Microsoft’s challenge: turning Yahoos into Bingers Microsoft and Yahoo Need to Focus on Search Users’ Loyalty Bing Gaining Grounds on Comparison Shopping WhatTheFont! « MyFonts – can’t work out what a font is, this will help Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: The diminishing returns on data CHART OF THE DAY: [...]

Oprah Time: Free – The Future of a Radical Price by Chris Anderson

Encyclopedia of the New Economy by John Browning and Spencer Reiss was originally published as a three-part work in Wired magazine back in 1998. Step forward a decade or so and current Wired magazine editor Chris Anderson has been explaining some of the key concepts for plebs. The Long Tail was his first effort at [...]

Links of the day

12 best places to get free images for your site | News | TechRadar UK Nokia N97 crashes and scratches Pharma and Healthcare Social Media Wiki « Dose of Digital Facebook and Bebo UK users compared Free DVD Unlocking Codes: Make DVD players multi-region & get cheaper discs….

I like: Early television USPS stamp set

The early days of American television produced some great episodic content from the working-class situation comedy of The Honeymooners and I Love Lucy to the comic genius of Phil Silvers, police procedural Dragnet and the original talk show king Ed Sullivan. The black and white screen shots are framed with an old school television set, [...]

Links of the day

Total Telecom – Low-cost handsets to account for half of all mobile phones by 2014 Google’s new search update “Caffeine” changes both look and feel | VentureBeat Delicious Founder: I Wish I Had Not Sold to Yahoo gethuman.com – hacks to get a human operator on the end of the phone NY Mag Commenters Get [...]

Postcard from Gotham

Over the week or so that I had been in New York a number of things struck me: Hybrid vehicles American cities typically use Ford Crown Victoria saloons as their taxis and their police cars. The Ford Crown Victoria is basically a land barge: a big low-stressed petrol engine in the front and a surprising [...]

Links of the day

British military encouraged to get online | Digital Media – CNET News Most Popular Email Clients RF IQ: Insights Quarterly apophenia: Teens Don’t Tweet… Or Do They? Lending binge | The Economist – interesting Chinese economic statistics and analysis

Out and about: Pastis restaurant, New York

New York’s meatpacking district is home to the grimey looking New York that we know from films like The Gangs of New York. You expect Starsky & Hutch to explode through a bunch of cardboard boxes in their Ford Torino due to the chic aged neighbourhood buildings. During the summer the street cobbles still smell [...]

Links of the day

No More Perks: Coffee Shops Pull the Plug on Laptop Users – WSJ.com – I guess they don’t have 5GBP a month 3G dongles Social Startups for Techcrunch50 2010 – broadstuff Nokia in Trouble? How Fast Can a Mobile Device Giant React? | MEOW! Blog

Out and about: ALTA Restaurant, New York

I got to spend an evening with some colleagues in New York and the restaurant they picked was ALTA. The restaurant is on a side street which felt more like Munich than Manhattan and is a surprisingly spacious place. It has a warm feel and I guess they were aiming for a traditional Swiss type [...]

Links of the day

Tablets are Toys (Not Mainstream Machines) – ReadWriteEnterprise An open letter to Sam Sethi, on the occasion of him completely losing his mind – Paul Carr lifting the lid on the Arrington | Sethi spat » What’s With Technorati? sixtysecondview Ovi: Get your Ovi Files Connector for Mac OS Nice stats collated by Paul Armstrong [...]

I like: delicious new save and share window

Delicious is one of them products which was created pretty much perfect in its first incarnation and they have been very careful in the way that they have tweaked it over time. Now they have made it even easier to share content than ever by allowing you to save a bookmark and share it via [...]

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