Richard Simmons is an iconic fitness instructor that you will have come across if you’ve spent any time watching American TV. I was reminded of my friend Heather Clarke who introduced me to Richard Simmons when we sat next to each other in adjacent cubicles at The Weber Group Europe, then based in Covent Garden. [...]
Microsoft’s Mundie: Tablets may not last, future of desktops is “the room” | VentureBeat – but this doesn’t work that well for much of the world where rooms are small: New York, Europe, east Asia Youth Insight Tools | Enovate – China Youth Insights Microsoft Co-Founder Hits Out at Gates – WSJ.com – this comes [...]
Up until the early 20th century; music was published from places like Tin Pan Alley. When wax cylinders and records came along record labels sprang up alongside publishers. The late 19th and 20th centuries also saw other parts of the media industry spring up: magazine publishers, the expansion of book publishers with the paper back [...]
Venturebeat has an interesting interview with futurist Paul Saffo on how technology, economics and social effects will cause a ‘great turbulence in the coming next few years.
I was chatting with Jed Hallam the other day and one of the things that came up was the reaction that some people have to my posts. Unlike many people in the digital space I try not to blog about social media and PR all the time. There are a number of reasons why this [...]
Music Sales Shed Another $1.4 Billion As Digital Growth Flattens Out | paidContent – maybe its the product? James gosling joins google- The Inquirer – the Java father at Google. This will be interesting Sina Corp, Large Chinese Portal, Drops Google As Search Provider – interesting that they’ve built their own search engine What Larry [...]
Put together by iSpy Marketing. I find this fascinating given the work that I was involved with at Yahoo! six years ago where social search was considered as a way that could provide a blue water strategy to compete with Google’s dominance in algorithmic search. I have been surprised at how little things have moved [...]
So once upon a time I went with a small business ISP that seemed to give good service. It was originally recommended to me by the IT guys that used to look after an old agency that I worked at. They used the ISP to provide home connectivity to remote workers for a hedge fund. [...]
Useful Bookmarklets for your iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch Browser I Believe in Advertising | Durex Performa: Extra Time – genius idea Z-410: How ZFS is slowly making its way to Mac OS X In Silicon Valley, a Lack of Engineers – NYTimes.com – what’s changed is the amount of engineers looking to do their [...]
Henry Jenkins talks about the convergence of media storytelling with child-play. It kind of fits in with some ideas I have been having about the way that different aspects of the media sector are converging on each other.
Step out of the hustle and bustle of London’s Lower Regent Street into Mitsukoshi, is like stepping into a little enclave of Japanese ordered peace and calm. The store is part quality souvenir store where Japanese tourists can pick up Cath Kidston, Mulberry and Burberry in more pleasant surroundings. There is also an ANA airline [...]
Given that Yahoo! is moving to be much more about the content it makes sense that they are doing this kind of research into what makes stuff shareable. No surprises is that great content works and that’s where you should put your effort behind. Middling content needs to have its game upped and people will [...]
McKinsey & Company – Report – Urban world: Mapping the economic power of cities – March 2011 – growth driven by mid-sized developing world cities RSA won’t talk? Assume SecurID is broken • The Register – whoah big impact for everyone from banks to governments BBC – dot.Rory: The social bubble – why? I use [...]
Jake Adelstein is the author of Tokyo Vice and one of my favourite sources on Twitter. I was interested in a link that he tweeted. When I tried to get back to my Twitter stream, the client repeatedly crashed. A move to Tweetdeck has proved unsatisfying; recommendations on alternative Twitter iPhone clients welcome.
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