When I was working on the What’s Next presentation and series of blog posts, I put a list of services that people should try, in the unlikely event that they hadn’t already: Questions Quora – clean smart question-and-answer service that manages to intelligently connect your questions and your social graph. It’s focused and pleasingly minimal [...]
FedEx and Ketchum did some interesting research in the US about current practices around social media and the video clip below highlights some of the findings. A downloadable PDF is available here.
If you are used to Underworld’s earlier work pummeling your senses via a giant sound system like I am then this track will hopefully come as a pleasant surprise. It is a delightful piece of of downbeat electronica that would be right at home in a café in Ibiza.
The hidden cost of facebook’s messaging system- The Inquirer Asiajin » Hit List: Japan’s Top 20 Products In 2010 (And 2011) – interesting how environment | energy saving products will be most popular next year Patentwiki – An Idea Incubator – really interesting ide, I wonder whether it would be hit by prior art legal [...]
Five years ago I worked on the launch of Yahoo! MyWeb, which was a social bookmarking service (it was moved into Yahoo! Bookmarks a a couple of years ago). MyWeb failed to go mainstream partly because it was a difficult concept for consumers to get their head around, God knows we tried. By contrast, Delicious [...]
I was listening to David Kilcullen on the C-SPAN After Words podcast, where he was interviewed about his book Counterinsurgency. One interesting concept struck me from the interview which Kilcullen called the Metz Threshold. Kilcullen described it as the amount of time that a country’s population will tolerate their government prosecuting a war. It is [...]
Before working in agency, I held down a number of blue-collar roles: Lab technician Labouring Manning a production line Plant process operator DJ’ing and running parties (which was more of a love and a vocation rather than a job) These roles gave me a foundation to build my agency life on: The value of connections: [...]
Facebook and Twitter not making many friends in Japan | RCR Unplugged – developers make more money on Mixi and the mobile | PC integration is better Coppers want to shut down ‘illegal’ websites- The Inquirer – new Nominet system may be more transparent than previous efforts EU Parliament backs ACTA with few reservations | [...]
Graham and the team at mobileYouth have come up with 50 slideware-friendly statistics on global mobile markets. Enjoy:
Great documentary that Stone’s Throw and Stüssy did a while back about producer and DJ James Dewitt ‘J Dilla’ Yancey. What I was was interesting (but I guess not too surprising given Japan’s soft power and huge collection of vinyl junkies and producers) was the seminal role that Manhattan Records in Shibuya, Tokyo had in [...]
Words cannot adequately how miserably cold London feels today. So I thought that images may be able to do the job better. Here are some shots I took with my iPhone, most of them using Pro HDR to get good detail of the winter sky. Thanks to my colleague Hannah for the inspiration on the [...]
You may know that The Beatles recently released their back catalogue on Apple’s iTunes music store recently, apparently it was a big thing. I am not a Beatles fan so I just found it a mild irritant. Robin Goad and the people over at Hitwise found that Facebook was a key driver and sounded surprised [...]
How To Get Your MacBook To Run A Non-Apple 2560-By-1440 Monitor – I had this problem when speaking a couple of times so good to know How to Enable the “root” Account on Mac OS X – handy to know, but as the comic book said: with great power comes great responsibility Why spreadable doesn’t [...]
Drew Benvie and Mark Pinsent have been writing their thoughts about new social network Path. I wanted to give it a bit of thought before piling in otherwise I would be just going over the same ground that they have already done. Path is a new social network that has a number of points of [...]
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