Sina Weibo has become a popular micro-blogging service. It started off as being rather similar to Twitter, but provides a more integrated experience for users. Add to this that you can say more in 140 Chinese characters than using a roman alphabet language and it has a whole new dynamic to it. (Although there are [...]
Official Google Blog: Introducing the Google+ project: Real-life sharing, rethought for the web AppleInsider | Google gave original Mac designer free rein on new Google+ UI China Speed | Ketchum Blog – Ketchum exec talks about the experience of visiting China for the first time Baidu Pushes ‘Box Computing’ for Smarter, Interactive Web Searches [REVIEW] [...]
Mechanical watch – despite having no discernible mechanical talent, I have always been fascinated by inner workings of mechanical things large and small from car engines to watch movements. Move forward to my mid-20s when I was scuba diving, I relied on a watch to keep an eye on the elapsed time under water. One [...]
My Mac – despite my owning an iPhone, and a recently acquired iPad (that I am still not that sold on); my Mac is my most personalised computing space. It is my digital home. It is organised around me and seems to have its own personality. It even has a name: Toshiro after veteran Japanese [...]
The golden age of Ireland could arguably have been from the 5th century through to the early Middle Ages where the Irish went out across Europe setting up centres of learning and recirculating ancient Greek and Roman knowledge that would have been otherwise lost during the Dark Ages and helped to kickstart innovation. I believed [...]
Apple – MobileMe transition and iCloud – I guess it’s Box.net then The Big Idea: The Age of Hyperspecialization – Harvard Business Review Hackers publish claimed Tony Blair contacts | FT.com KFC’s Explosive Growth in China — HBS Working Knowledge – innovators dilemma personified Social media is dead. Long live social media. | FH Beta [...]
When I first skimmed Dentsu London’s post on ambient tourism, I was struck by this very particular type of vicarious experience. Ambient tourism is defined as an effort to transmit the feel of a journey elsewhere, highlighting work done by Norwegian state broadcaster NRK. I was reminded by some of the navel-gazing about life-streaming, The [...]
Yaron Eisenstein got in contact and asked me to have a look at 8minut.es. The service is a Digg-like crowdsourced news / attention service. One of the key difference is the ticking clock where content gets pushed away if no one shares it in 8 minut.es which means that it keeps things cleaner as spamming [...]
Edison Research gathered some interesting data points about US consumer behaviour online with social services; no surprises but good to have. The Social Habit 2011 by Edison Research
Most VCs Are Investing All Wrong – the money quote Major technological advances have slowed in the last few years, as investors have been much more willing to fund me-too Internet startups than groundbreaking new technologies. Hey Android Makers: If You’re Competing On Features, You’ve Already Lost – you read it here first Feds to [...]
Interesting panel session with people who have played a part in the developing location space field over the past number of years.
Animator JJ Villard talks about his inspirations, capturing ideas and his creative process in this short film by Stüssy.
A lot of the things that we are getting excited about like iPads, where 2.0, augmented reality, RFID, NFC, presence and social services were concepts that PARC Research Centre were working with in the early 1990s under the label of ‘ubiquitous computing’. This presentation gives a really good perspective on the field and how they [...]
The Leveraged Lifestyles of the Rich – The Wealth Report – WSJ – scary quote “five percent of individuals are responsible for 36 percent of consumer spending China Is Apple’s Second-Biggest Apps Market After U.S., Free Apps Reign | paidContent:UK – and still a comparative drop in the ocean with no iPhone on China Mobile [...]
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