Go into any mobile phone retailer in the UK and look at the sea of tat that passes itself off for products that have allegedly been designed as accessories that will improve your mobile phone experience. It doesn’t have to be this way, and I have proof that phone accessories can mean great product design. [...]
Former government broadband czar and current Alcatel executive Stephen Carter defined global immersion as a world of always-on, always-connected high-speed broadband according to TotalTelecom as part of a presentation at the Broadband World Forum. Carter also predicted a massive change required in both fixed and mobile tariffs to pay for global immersion.
Great presentation courtesy of the folks at PARC. Jim Zemlin – executive director, from The Linux Foundation presents on open development in a world where everything is connected. It covers the economics, technological changes and benefits of open source software over the past decade. Open development in a world where everything is connected [PARC Forum] [...]
Dropbox CEO: Why search advertising failed us | VentureBeat – people search for what they know ResourceBlog Article: “Japanese E-Book Industry To Create Common Format” – strong incentive for Amazon not to do this in the US and UK because it is so far ahead Qualcomm CEO: We didn’t buy Android because we’d be too [...]
In the early 1980s MTV shook up the music industry and you couldn’t have a hit without a blowout music video; Duran Duran built a career on them from Girls on Film to Wild Boys. If Kanye West’s Runaway stands out as a trumpet call for this video renaissance, then 2NE1′s Can’t Nobody takes it [...]
Alexander Lebedev made a video where he talks about the rationale for the launch of the ‘i’ newspaper in the UK earlier this week.
A couple of interesting things here: Gartner’s format of six questions and 30-second answers keeps the videos interesting and cuts down (but doesn’t stop) spin and PR message delivery. Listen to Chambers name-drop agility but doesn’t delve into it like he would normally be able to do Chambers de-emphasises the importance of technology in comparision [...]
9 Hong Kong tourist traps — for better or worse | CNNGo.com – the alternative suggestions are great How the Lance Armstrong Foundation Became Livestrong | Fast Company – polarising reaction key to success Why Microsoft’s Mall of America Store Will Fail | Cult of Mac – some good insights despite the bias “Myspace” Reboot [...]
Project Club 21 is an exhibition that tries to answer what would the cliques that created some of the great art and culture look like in the 21st century. The organisers looked back at the scenes that revolved around art, music, cinema, performance and literature being created by the same people from the punk scene [...]
If you enjoyed William Gibson’s previous two works Pattern Recognition and Spook Country then you’ll like Zero History. Like the previous two books it dwells in the now, which is appropriate given Gibson’s oft quoted koan ‘The future is already here, it’s just unevenly distributed’. I have written the review in terms of general themes [...]
Ok, so I can’t remember the real Tron and am more excited by Daft Punk doing the soundtrack than 80s nostalgia, but this is amazing:
China has its own unique ecosystem of web properties. It has a passionate blogging culture where some blogs by celebrities, experts and populist pundits can attract an audience of millions. Sina.com is a portal and blogging platform. They also have the most popular micro-blogging service. I thought I would have a poke around it and [...]
Ogilvy Group UK » Blog Archive » OgilvyOne launches “21st Century Guide to Selling” – interesting that it is less of a dirty word to marketers than it used to be Firesheep In Wolves’ Clothing: Extension Lets You Hack Into Twitter, Facebook Accounts Easily Parents sue QQ over son’s death – People’s Daily Online – [...]
Interesting that Evan Williams points out the biggest change in the future of the social networking will be cultural rather than technological.
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