Apple (United Kingdom) – iPad page FAIL, originally uploaded by renaissancechambara. I noticed this on the Apple UK site. I guess this is what happens when you have a tightly held global campaign going up against local needs. In case you can’t read the image it says: iPad A magic and revolutionary product at an [...]
At the moment half the posts on UKpress.org seem to be either fee related or whether PR should be done on a payment by results basis. The general sentiment seems to be that PR people responding view the profession as strategic and the entrepreneurs view it as a ‘low cost’ tactic to drive sales or [...]
Google and antitrust: Searching questions | The Economist Cellphone Applications Let Shoppers Point, Click and Buy – NYTimes.com The Wired Repo Man – He’s Not ‘As Seen on TV’ – NYTimes.com From Quantic Dream, a Child Killer and a Tormented Dad – NYTimes.com – interesting new direction in gaming. In some ways it reminds me [...]
First of all some disclosure: I worked on the Palm PR account some ten years ago now and got to work with some of the smartest people in mobile device technology, notably the company’s chief competitive officer Michael Mace as an occasional media spokesperson back when his pictures had him with a Magnum PI-style moustache. [...]
I walked down to Robert Dyas on St Martin’s Lane and found out that the story of a former client, Enron, had been turned into a West End play. I felt conflicted about the whole thing. I had helped launch the Enron Broadband business in Europe including the ‘Enron Intelligent Network’ and a video-on-demand deal [...]
Marketing Interactive | Facebook asserts interest in Asia Are Modern Web Apps Killjoys? The Facebook Imperative – owes a creative debt to Clara Shih (ex-Salesforce exec) but still a good read Is your social media breaking the law? 81% not sure | Tempero Time to Worry about China? – US fund managers are apparently going [...]
flavors dot me, originally uploaded by renaissancechambara. flavors.me is a website that allows you to aggregate your social media personas in one place without having to build your own web page to do it. In sharp contrast to profiles like LinkedIn, it provides a lot of customisation. You can direct URI to it, pick one [...]
Up until very recently ‘super-standards’ like Internet Explorer for Windows-only features that plugged into .Net frameworks made using some corporate electronics services like banking a pain-in-the-ass. In fact, I still don’t do electronic banking because my bank of choice thinks that user experience should be the digital equivalent of Hellraiser’s cenobites that said bank probably [...]
Dr Marten’s shop window, originally uploaded by renaissancechambara. Dr Marten’s shop window on Neal Street caught my eye with its display of colourful metallic finish boots. The display took the Dr Marten’s boot out of the its heritage as a work shoe, beloved of the various different tribes under the broad church of skinhead culture [...]
Courtesy of chinaSMACK (who trawl Chinese bulletin boards to get the latest memes) I found this video of a young Hong Kong woman apparently berating her ex-boyfriend on YouTube. Look at the way she thrusts the vitamin container into view everytime she talks about the letter c – I along with a number of other [...]
New delivery auction websites save money and CO2 – eBay-type model for delivery services. I would love to see this for international shipping Social Networking Watch: Social Media Use Up 82% Worldwide UK Says ‘No’ To Disconnecting File-Sharers, Sort Of | TorrentFreak MPs attack ‘regressive’ broadband tax | Media | guardian.co.uk HSBC rethinks strategy with [...]
Nice brand extension by Innocent, originally uploaded by renaissancechambara. Really nice brand extension by Innocent, keeping to their core values and competencies
Social media changed the relationship between audiences and experts. Individual experts surfaced like John Battelle and Danny Sullivan built successful businesses as experts based on their blog presence. Some of the most profitable arbiters of expertise are the market analyst houses like Gartner and Forrester Research and this change in relationship with experts is a [...]
I sat and debated alongside the great and the good of the social media world this evening and finally got to meet Chris Applegate in person. I scribbled into my pad to mindmap out my ideas. Enjoy.
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