I love it when shoe companies experiment with edgy designs and new materials like New Balance’s past Super Team 33 efforts, but someone needs to give Reebok a slap over these efforts I saw in their Neal Street, Covent Garden shop based on the vintage Reebok Pump basketball design. I know that this is supposed [...]
I met with a number of people and observed a number of things during the Christmas break. On their own not enough for a blog post about them, but I thought there maybe something in putting them all together. According to an entrepreneur I met even targeted high circulation print coverage delivered little traffic to [...]
Marketing agency Blu Dot teamed up with furniture designer Mono to start a word-of-mouth campaign through a ‘Real Good‘ experiment. They placed chairs around New York city, tracked them to their new homes when they were picked up and interviewed the new owners. This was to investigate the concept of curb mining (kerb mining in [...]
Household PC use swells to 76% – Hong Kong has a home internet penetration of 73.3 per cent Whole Foods Launches Resolution Facebook Application – smart thinking which fits in with Whole Foods brand proposition really well. Video: SMCKL#2 Steve Rubel – Social Media Club * Kuala Lumpur – Rachel flagged up this video of [...]
The tech headlines were dominated after Christmas day with tales of Amazon’s spectacular e-book success. The fact that Kindle e-books outsold paper ones during Christmas day was hailed as a landmark. You can find the press release here. However it doesn’t tell you how many books were actually sold on Christmas day. It maybe three [...]
The old adage of the victor writing history applies not only to wars but also the history of innovation and science. Everything you were taught in school about the history of science is likely to be wrong, usually having a European focus; from the Greeks and Romans to the Italian-based renaissance via the wisdom preserved [...]
Spotlight: Art Adds Project To Turn NYC Cabs Into Fine Art Billboards – interesting use of ‘clear’ inventory. The commercial patronage of artwork is like a little bit of the Medici legacy on a yellow cab The Best iPhone Apps Of 2009 (Appvee Edition) 10 Awesome Uses of Augmented Reality Marketing – more web-of-no-web examples [...]
The Finnish for door is Ovi. I recently received a research request from Nokia’s Ovi services so that they can find out why I wasn’t using their services since I had registered and tried them out. The fact that Nokia is so on top to do research is a good thing and something that other [...]
Digital Britain: it’s slow up north, originally uploaded by renaissancechambara. Searingly fast mobile broadband, at home in the north. The pathetic speed of my mobile broadband connection at my parents home in the middle of a large town in the North of England. Have to love Digital Britain.
Swatch group to stop third-party sales | James Spotting – Nivarox-FAR is one of Swatch Group component companies is that holds a Microsoft-like grip on watch springs. Springs are the fuel tank of a mechanical watch. This could be devastating for the watch industry. Operator :: Add-ons for Firefox – great browser plug-in for taking [...]
In the unlikely event that you are reading this post, rather than sleeping off over indulgence; Merry Christmas. Service is likely to be slow for a few days as I will be in the broadband-deprived North where there aren’t coffee shops with free wi-fi on every corner like London. Things should be back to normal [...]
Britain’s largest Christmas tree at Cheshire Oaks, originally uploaded by renaissancechambara. In the dull sky of winter this looks more like a monument to fallen cosmonauts than a Christmas tree. Its scale and and perfect symmetry made it feel unfestive and a bit intimidating.
China Unicom Launches Nationwide iPhone Roadshow – ChinaTechNews.com – its hard to explain how much events play in Asian marketing efforts The year it exploded: 10 hottest Chinese social games of 2009 | VentureBeat – gaming is a much bigger part of online activity in China than that west
I am not claiming that the leadership of Twitter are tyrants, quite the opposite. Instead I got the idea for the title of the post, reflecting on an old concept that Eckhart Walther told me about when I was at Yahoo!. Walther used to talk about the tyranny of the majority in reference to web [...]
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