Google has finally left the Chinese market for search, so I thought I would try the alternative Baidu. My trial is gloriously unscientific in nature and not particularly rigorous. I did what most consumers would have done and searched for myself. I was quite open-minded about this, on the one hand Google has been killing [...]
Google Apps Still A Tiny Business — Only $50 Million A Year — But Microsoft Should Be In Major Panic Mode – Some interesting information on how it is disrupting Microsoft’s corporate pricing strategy 5 Essential Apps for Your Business’s Facebook Fan Page The Seven Needs of Real-Time Curators Strange Days | whatleydude How Wrong [...]
I love Kung Fu Panda for its visual in-jokes and the line “There is no charge for awesomeness or attractiveness”. I was reminded of this by a window sticker I saw by South Korean logistics company Hanjin. Whilst the Royal Mail has done some interesting product design like the electric mail trolleys and the custom-built [...]
U.K. Kids Start Social Networking Way Under the Age Limit | Fast Company ::: Kenichi Tanaka – web zine :::: 卒業制作 / Final Thesis Project – love the 8bit styles The Times’ Paywall – Can It Work? | Forrester Blogs – you can find my take on this here. China To Lead The Race In [...]
Along with a number of most other people I receive my copy of PR Week and nestled inside it was a copy of the Power Book. A guide to the great and the good of the industry. One thing immediately grabbed my attention was the advert by Fleishman Hillard on the back of the book. [...]
Some 16 years ago I managed to get hold of a number of copies of a record that I didn’t really like (U4EA – Sunshine after the rain), but that my fellow Liverpudlians loved. I knew where to get them and they didn’t, they headed to shops like 3Beat where the promo copies were being [...]
mobileme loading screen, originally uploaded by renaissancechambara. Bit an uncharacteristic FAIL over at Apple’s email service. I hadn’t been able to get web access all day. The loading bar is something I hadn’t seen before though.
Mr Scruff live DJ mix from Nouveau Casino, Paris, Sat 20th March 2010 – SoundCloud – great for a dinner party, usual eclectic style from Mr Scruff Amazon.co.uk Filler Item Finder – handy site for shopping on Amazon UK UK record lobby: democracy is a waste of time – Boing Boing – another potential gaffe [...]
There are times when I sit down to right a post and think ‘Ged, what on earth are you doing this fool’s errand of a post for?‘. Part of what I will put in here will be technique and is likely to run past its sell-by date as soon as I hit the publish button. [...]
Google UK Budget realtime update module, originally uploaded by renaissancechambara. Google.co.uk searches for information on today’s budget featured a real-time scrolling box of the latest news and analysis appearing. Usually you may see this for tweets but rarely for news items.
Experiment to Freak Out Expedia and Hotels.com – John Battelle’s Searchblog – this could be exceptionally disruptive and empowering for hotels. It screws the aggregators as their most profitable area at the moment is hotels, apparently there is no margin in flights EU will probe google – The Inquirer – does Google need probing probably, [...]
My post earlier today for Left Foot Forward analysed Gordon Brown’s speech where he put internet connectivity up as a central election issue. However, there isn’t that much separating Labour from the Conservatives in this regard. The vision of his speech will be additionally impacted by the All Expenses Paid Vacation in Corfu Digital Economy [...]
A couple of things have started to get me thinking about the nature of real-time discussion of an event over Twitter. Umair Haque’s interview of Evan Williams (@ev) of Twitter got hammered in real-time on Twitter to a worldwide audience following the SXSW conference. A number of weeks earlier, I had participated in a discussion [...]
YouTube – Green@Google: Stewart Brand- freakin’ awesome talk with Stewart Brand. Seems appropriate that he was talking at Google Cory Doctorow – AtGoogleTalks’s Channel – great presentation on how ridiculous the Digital Economy Bill and ACTA are. Why E-Books Failed In 2000, And What It Means For 2010 – Good stuff here from Michael Mace [...]
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