798 is a former armaments factory built by East German engineers in Beijing in the early part of Mao Zetong’s leadership of China during the 1950s (before they had a bad falling out with the then Soviet Union). The buildings are now a series of galleries and workshops for artists (think a better funded, more [...]
California Lawmakers May Force Facebook to Change Privacy Processes | AllThingsD – California has a reputation for trend-setting consumer protection law: catalytic converters were first legislated here Google’s Define Operator, No Longer Useful – oh Google! Sauce Scout – Sauce Labs – saves you having to have machines just for testing How To Save Yahoo [...]
Here is a scan of my notes from Mobile Monday London last night. Whilst I was convinced that this is an area that will be big, there is still lots of problems to be overcome from a profit point-of-view. But most concerning to me is the various safety issues from loss prevention to consumer data [...]
Whilst the write up about this talks about computer games and sounds reminiscent of ambient soundtracks. To me it sounded more like Manuel Göttsching met up with some Detroit techno artists early on in their careers and had a jamming session. But words are just words and this is rather good
This video is a universal truth for most professional services businesses.
Thanks to VCCP, I got to go along to the launch of The Sunday Times new social comparator The Social List. Simply put, its Klout or PeerIndex for the average Joe. Radian6 or Brandwatch won’t be shaking in their boots. And by the time you read this you will probably see a lot of ‘back [...]
Goldman’s Jim O’Neill on China’s Slowdown – WSJ – a happy landing and possibly a big rally iPad 2 Camera Going More Or Less Unused According To Flickr Stats – not terribly surprised its a bit weighty and awkward to hold it out in front of you and it doesn’t fit in with the user [...]
I have ten invites for scoop.it a visual curation service (kind of like Tumblr) available. Put your details in the comment section if you want one. Will be given out on a first come, first served basis.
I’ve spent a fair bit of time recently meeting with recent and not so recent graduates at the start of their careers. One thing stood out with them for me; that they were living at home and happy with that decision. There are a number of aspects to this: It’s the economy stupid! Time magazine [...]
Gleick’s books Chaos: Making a New Science and Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything are must-read materials. His latest book covers everything from Claude Shannon’s information theory to the state of the modern media. Pretty damn awesome.
Dutch telco KPN using deep packet inspection to monitor mobile customers, throttle services — Engadget – welcome to what your internet collection will look like Confess Your Love with AXE via Twitter – great campaign Sliding newspaper circulation? Not in India | pr-media-blog.co.uk – who says print is dead? MediaShift . Massive Digital Divide for [...]
Whilst Aol was using this to point out the importance of branded entertainment and their content properties, I think that lesson is equally important for brand’s own content and the need for them to think and act like media owners rather than just brand owners. Aol & Nielsen content sharing study View more presentations from [...]
Back in 2002 I worked very briefly with colleagues who were trying to get their head around open source software in particular the so-called LAMP stack which threatened Microsoft’s server and tools business. LAMP stood for Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP. A quick surf of The Register will show you some of the approaches that [...]
I love this picture taken by danah boyd; it sums up pretty much everything I feel about Facebook
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