Whilst I won’t be dashing out and getting myself one of the Microsoft | Sharp Kin phones. I did like the Kin logo. The logo seems to be completely unrelated to the devices. There is a noticeable stylistic similarity to the S|Double Studio logo from Shawn Stussy‘s new clothing label. And the S|Double logo reminds [...]
Reading Steve Jobs rationale for why Apple’s mobile devices don’t support Adobe Flash I was reminded of the tone-of-voice of Apple’s usual communications. They are about as sincere as the greeting you get when enter a Disney store, you feel like you are being played. If ever there was an example of the Cluetrain Manifesto [...]
That HP rode in as a white knight took me a little bit by surprise. I tuned into the conference call to find out more about the deal. I have bullet-pointed out my thoughts below: Is HP executive Todd Bradley the right person for the deal? He was CEO of the company in the early [...]
MediaPost Publications Why PR, Start-Ups Don’t Always Mix 04/28/2010 ACTA year-long impounding of suspected fakes could hurt businesses | Pinsent Masons LLP 3 Creative Ideas to Use Google for Link Building Search | Search Engine Journal UPDATE: 38 Infinity Ward Employees File Lawsuit Against Activision Over Royalties, Alleges Devs Held “Hostage” – G4tv.com – Activision [...]
Speedo 1:1 triathlon kit, originally uploaded by renaissancechambara. I love this window display by Speedo which evokes childhood memories of Airfix and Revell model kits which came on similar frames (but at a much smaller scale). It’s a smart, playful idea which gains maximum utilisation from the window space.
I hadn’t come across this phrase until I heard a senior policeman complain about the relaxation of the licensing laws by the Labour government. Instead of a continental European-style civilised cafe society, the laws brought a veritable Pandora’s box of social ills in the UK: binge drinking and violence. Much of this is reputed to [...]
Godiva milk shakes WTF!, originally uploaded by renaissancechambara. What is it with beverages and brand distruction? On the one hand you have Starbucks trying to convince us that their VIA instant coffee is as good as their brewed and expresso-based coffees. I noticed this as I passed the Godiva shop in Covent Garden this evening. [...]
Dictionary.com Illustrates How Search is Becoming More Diversified | WebProNews – pretty impressive mobile application usage figures. 3quarksdaily: Unceasing fascination with Japan, immersion in literary culture and the pleasures and sorrows of the “thrown” life – fantastic interview apophenia » Blog Archive » Harassment by Q&A: Initial Thoughts on Formspring.me UK Music Sales Rise On [...]
Great powerful anecdote on video from Nike CEO Mark Parker. Click to see the video at Fast Company.
Tim Pat Coogan is better known for his Irish historic biographies, but The Irish: A personal view is an interesting collection of essays from the early 1970s reminiscent of of the New Journalism style of Tom Wolfe pre-Bonfire of the Vanities or The Right Stuff. Wolfe and other exponents of new journalism who covered low [...]
Saab 92 1950, originally uploaded by Stig Baumeyer. According to The Local SAAB’s new owner Spyker wants to release a retro version of the SAAB 92. When SAAB started out in car manufacturing it was as innovative as Citroën or Volkswagen. The SAAB 92 was their first car. It is hard to believe that car [...]
Did Microsoft Hire Consumer Watchdog to Attack Google? | Techrights – really really stupid, surprised Frank X Shaw wouldn’t stomp on this practice if it turns out to be true Windows saves the day, but rest of Microsoft business mostly blah – good business unit by business unit numbers breakdown The Pitch HK: Chui Sui [...]
I have been playing with Mflow for a little while and made a few attempts at trying to write a blog post to explain what it does and how I felt about it. Mflow now have a video that explains really well what it does. The application is really nicely developed and relatively intuitive to [...]
I deliberately left my post on the mark-up language for Wikipedia out of the 29 things meme because I didn’t want to encourage PR people altering their clients Wikipedia entry – if anyone thinks that as an implicit message from my previous post then they are wrong. You will be caught, there are great free [...]
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