PSFK have put together a great presentation | report on mobile marketing using QRcodes. The report is sponsored by Microsoft Tagging: you may have been their (dazzle-paint-esque) codes on some blogs, but I don’t think that they’ve really taken off at all. PSFK presents Future Of Mobile Tagging Report View more presentations from PSFK.
Surfing the Barkings! blog written by the people at Vermont Apple reseller Small Dog Electronics reminded me that the Mac turned 27 recently. It’s a great post and they reflect on the enormous leap forward in computing power and reducing cost that technology changes through those 27 years have brought. Indeed even your humble iPhone [...]
LinkedIn Labs have launched InMaps which helps you visualise your social graph associated with your profile. It also allows you to explore which of your contacts are connected together. Here is one I created earlier which looks like technicolour candyfloss.
Microsoft Incinerates ANOTHER $543 Million Online – whilst Windows bore up better than expected online is still a gaping sore for Microsoft and you have to wonder about Yahoo! Learn to Code Epilogue: Best Practices and Additional Resources Everything You Know About Fitness is a Lie | Men’s Journal Beyond Amazon: How to Make Recommendations Smarter | [...]
The Aram store in Covent Garden’s theatreland is a design lover’s paradise. One of the things that recently caught my eye was this compact computer desk | home office. Presumably this takes advantage of wireless technology to hid the printer, scanner and broadband modem. Whilst I aspire to this kind of tech minimalism my own [...]
Nothing exactly rocket science in this deck by The Hoffman Agency, but worthwhile sharing here none the less. Client Agency Relationships View more presentations from The Hoffman Agency.
So I did probably my most painful thing this month and looked at my credit card. I went through my transactions and then realised that one looked a bit amiss on the American Express statement. I had a flight to and from Hong Kong, but the statement claimed that my flight went into Kai Tak [...]
New US Army social media guidelines | Brew – great use of photography in these. Content is common-sense Piwik – Web analytics – Open source – good for projects where you don’t want to rely on Sitemeter or Google Analytics Ireland to top most globalised nations | Irish Examiner – but what does this really [...]
A few weeks ago I put together a list of five email lists worth joining, well now here’s another five to join them: Crosstalk – Actiontec is a provider of home networking equipment. Like most companies they keep an eye on what is happening in their sector, but unlike many companies they then share this [...]
Russian design studio Art Lebedev usually comes up with interesting designs. This clock intrigued me as it tries to match the way we describe time verbally with the way that it presents the information. It comes with five languages including Russian and English.
With products like the iPad which comes in different specifications, a spreadsheet is a boon. I had been thinking about picking one up in Hong Kong, but all the prices looked very similar to the UK prices in the Apple Store, so I left it well alone. Getting home, I decided to have a look [...]
Young inventors prompt colleges to revamp rules | Seattle Times Newspaper – interesting dilemma. I would imagine that UK universities aren’t so progressive Deloitte | Technology, Media & Telecommunications Predictions 2011 | iPad App Markdown is a Skill Every Modern Communicator Should Learn – Steve Rubel A Return to Feed Reading Tops My 2011 Tech [...]
Vistoe is a modular shelving manufacturer whose product was designed by German product designer Dieter Rams in 1960 and has been going ever since. Before sustainability was a twinkle in the environmentalists eye Rams realised how wasteful obsolescence was. He realised that it was bad design. Obsolescence is a crime from Vitsœ on Vimeo. What [...]
I realise that this was an odd question, but I was thinking a lot about content farms since they seem to be top of everyone’s agenda at the moment. On the one hand, Google clearly has a perceived spam problem which is directly attributable to content farm content – the fact that consumers believe it [...]
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