Marketers and academics love acronyms like marketing mix model better known by the vernacular five Ps. One of Google’s talks is by Po Chi Wu from the Global Innovation Research Centre of PKU (Peking University). In the presentation he highlights what the centre thinks is the key attributes for innovation: Preparation Patience Persistence Persuasion Productivity
This is a presentation that I created as part of the summer of social media that the CIPR launched to improve and promote digital practices within the industry. 100819 social media no nos View more presentations from Ged Carroll. Good session with a mix of perspectives and attendees. Tellingly, I asked the group if they [...]
Facebook have released a video to explain the hows and wherefores of their new location-based service addition to the social network Godzilla. You could argue about whether this is sharing too much in one place or what kind of privacy car-crash Facebook will make out of location data but that is for a another time. [...]
Just looking at this trailer, I so want to see Zhang Yimou’s latest film based on the Coen Bros Blood Simple. Check out the trailer:
No Copyright Law: The Real Reason for Germany’s Industrial Expansion? – SPIEGEL ONLINE – Germany was buoyed by a vast amount of how-to publications covering science, agriculture and industry SOPHISTICATION: Hirofumi Kiyonaga and Hiroshi Fujiwara | Hypebeast – I need to go and see this next time I am in Hong Kong Minister hints that [...]
Thanks to Iain Tait for highlighting this phrase to me. Tradigital (as in tragedy) was not as you might expect invented at Heishman Flillard, but instead seen in the pages of AdWeek. Tradigital is an agency that has the strengths of traditional and digital agencies. What is a tradigital agency going to do better? It’s [...]
I found the cover of the latest edition of The Economist interesting with its mohawk sporting David Cameron on the front cover and the neon yellow background highlighting the apparent image. The imagery of Cameron with a mohawk seemed appropriate now that there is a Sex Pistols perfume. It all begs the question: what is [...]
I was looking at a vintage portable radio on eBay (now closed) and was impressed by its clean modern lines, despite the fact that it was from the mid-1970s. I found out that the Bang & Olufsen Beolit 707 was released in 1975, the product design was by Danish designer Jacob Jensen. The bright blue [...]
Oracle’s Java Lawsuit: Free Markets, Not Free Software – Google’s going to have to make some sort of financial settlement here Daum Sells Lycos To Ybrant For $36 Million | paidContent – its a real shame to watch the decline of Lycos, they came up with some interesting services such as internet chat rooms and [...]
I took these pictures of the window of a comic store near the office. At first I thought the box was just your standard Star Wars collection and I didn’t make a connection with the Hong Kong name check on the bottom of the box. Then it hit me, the flags at the top left [...]
Leo LePorte interviews a couple of creatives from W+K to get the skinny on how the advert was made. I won’t spoil it for you.
Google Product Ideas – I didn’t realise that Google crowdsourced its product roadmap, getting customers to vote on features and recommend new ones BuzzFeed Offers Secrets to Viral Web Hits | AllThingsD – how can you not want to look at a presentation with a title like Mormons, Mullets and Maniacs vinyl recorder – cut [...]
The rain was plentiful in London on Friday, this video just gives a small idea of what it was like:
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