By the time you read this I will be starting a trip to Ireland to see the family. Chances are there that there will be very little internet connectivity going on so don’t expect many updates on this blog until I am back next week. I am hoping to get some high scoring check-ins on [...]
Andrew Seel of Qube and I presented last night at a Digital Marketing Group event hosted by John Horsley at Anda De Bridge on the Kingsland Road. There was also a presentation by PageMagix on their new Facebook management tool. My slides are below for reference. 1104 digital marketing group
L.A. Noire lets impatient gamers skip the hard parts – interesting move Segmenting China’s digital consumers – McKinsey Quarterly – 750 million online by 2015 How important is action based measurement to you? | pharmaphorum A room with a view: how to measure value in social media – the action based economy AppleInsider | Apple’s [...]
I got an email from Friendster talking about a new improved site where they would get rid of most of my profile information as part of the redesign. As far as I remember the site went through a redesign relatively recently including a new funky logo pictured. This could be a way of trying to [...]
I find much of the current hip-hop scene, distinctly unhip-hop in nature. No such fear with this Dennis Coffey track. Mr Coffey is a veteran funk musician and the track has been remixed by Chris ‘Steinski’ Stein whose ‘Lessons in Hip-Hop’ tape edits and productions pretty much defined the hip-hop sound.
Really cool presentation with data points by Charles Kim Key take outs: 95:5 rule. You want affluent women in your shop. They make up 5% of the US population You can get men to spend more if they bring a female friend or significant other Women shop longer, and spend more Men show up later [...]
oki-ni have been issuing a series of mixes with related t-shirts. With DâM-FunK they were on to a stone cold winner. I have been a fan of the tracks and mixes that he has done for the Stones Throw label and this mix is of a similarly high quality with 80s analogue synth sounds and [...]
Online video falling short in UK: News from Warc.com – not convinced by the methodology around this. Based on asking consumers rather than behavioural observation MediaTek looks to restructure, sources claim – MediaTek have made it easy for hundreds of phone manufacturers in China to roll out their own handsets, this restructure looks like an [...]
My plans to come home changed and I ended up driving back to Birkenhead with my Dad. Being Good Friday, the trip took a butt-numbing six hours. Along the way I treated the journey as a kind of anthropological laboratory. The first thing that really caught my eye was this set of vinyl stickers on [...]
Each time I come home I come back with some insights into life outside the media sector and outside central London. Here’s the latest dispatch: The early bird catches the senior customer I had to get my driving license replaced since it runs out the middle of next month and you can only do it [...]
Earth Day update: “Green” product sales down sharply in wake of financial meltdown – you saw a similar pattern of consumer behaviour in the early to mid-1990s recession in the UK I, Cringely » Blog Archive » Sorry, wrong number – economics of iPhone theft news.gov.hk – MTR respects press freedom – OMD got caught [...]
Just a quick note to wish everyone a happy Easter.
Google’s Marissa Mayer talking about Google Map Maker. Sounds like a great tool for PROs
Graham Brown put up a nice presentation on trends, which I have embedded below:
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