Frank Miller of 300 and Sin City fame has produced a commercial for Gucci. This will feature on MTV on September 12. It is fantastic to watch, but it also a point of convergence between high fashion and geek culture. This has been going on for a while with people like hackette and fashion model [...]
The story of Silicon Valley, that I have helped to perpetuate in my career as a PR professional is that of the classic plucky young start-up founders going from garage to boardroom. Dare I say it there is even a ‘start-up’ monomyth. Bright young things work really hard developing cool | amazing inventions in a [...]
William Gibson: I’m agnostic about technology. But I want a robotic penguin | The Observer – I love the phrase agnostic in relation to technology, its often how I feel Do people grow out of Location based services? – broadstuff – another post on check-in fatigue Turn Your Head & Swipe: Doctors Love the iPad [...]
The LDS Church has been running some ad spots in trial markets across the US (and has also posted them to Youtube) which owe a creative debt to Microsoft’s I’m a PC campaign. But I have to admit that this video featuring motorcycle fanatic Jeff Decker for the Mormon’s campaign beats any of the I’m [...]
Doug Engelbart gave this famous demonstration of technologies in 1968, it still blows my mind watching it, you can see the future of modern computing right here. Contrast, Engelbart with Paul Allen. Allen co-founded Microsoft which went on to make him billions of dolars from the ideas in this video, (as did Apple, Sun Microsystems, [...]
My trips home tend to be part family catch up, part sociological and anthropological expeditions into the heart of Merseyside. I use this time to watch the way my parents and my friends use technologies. On previous expeditions trips home I found that peer-to-peer networking had proved an unsatisfactory replacement for collecting and that sat [...]
Google has thrown its weight behind HTML5, most tellingly with this informational site for developers. Day 1 of Google’s I|O conference in May sheds further light on their standpoint. This puts JavaFX, Flash and Silverlight in a difficult position, though Flash may be the least adversely affected because of its ubiquity and ability to handle [...]
An old but good Google talk by Fred Wilson about disruption and innovation. Fred is a partner in Union Square Ventures and a popular blogger on all things that fit in the nexus between technology, the web and entrepreneurship.
YouTube – Googlebeat’s Channel – Google produced magazine show based on what’s trending in search that week The Look Ahead: Google Narrows Its Acquisition Focus | paidContent – 2 billion USD per quarter. Slashdot Linux Story | Native ZFS Is Coming To Linux Next Month – this is an interesting move, hopefully ZFS will go [...]
Amazing short film about Japanese tattoo artist Yoshihito Nakano aka Horiyoshi III. Nakano is based in the Japanese port city of Yokohama and hopes to pass his business on to his son. Whilst Nokano uses an electric needle for the design outlines, he uses a traditional bamboo needle for the fills of colour on the [...]
Thanks to the folks at BNTL for this bizarre cover version of Bitches ain’t Sh** from Dr Dre’s The Chronic. The group take the track, own it and stamp all over the offensive lyrics. Enjoy: Lovin’ it like a fat kid loves cake.
For those of use working with companies during the first web boom of the late 90s, two companies personified the web itself. One was Cisco and its dark-coloured router faces still dominate internet infrastructure. The other was a computer company recently bought out by database giant Oracle. Sun Microsystems at that time was the archetype [...]
A Chronology of Brands that Got Punk’d by Social Media « Web Strategy by Jeremiah Owyang | Social Media, Web Marketing – some classics in here A Botched Hostage Rescue in the Philippines | STRATFOR – a really smart thoughtful analysis of the Manila bus hijacking The Freshest Kids in China | China Youthology 青年志 [...]
Japanese consumer electronics companies like Panasonic, Hitachi, Toshiba, Pioneer, Denon and Sony have traditionally relied on providing great value and great engineering. A great example of this is to look at the amount of ‘Made in Japan’ products that feature in hi-fi collectors stores like Audioscope. However Japan can no longer compete on great prices [...]
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