The Future of Social Media – well maybe Liveblogging the Tencent Partners Conference | TechNode – Open is the new trends here in China, with Renren‘s open platform and 360‘s lately annoucement of all-around open strategy in place, now it’s Tencent’s turn, the giant and one of the most profitable internet company is hosting it’s [...]
A full body print on a zip hooded top with designs based on Spiderman, Venom and Captain America.
The British Council is one of them great things that the UK government gets right (alongside the BBC World Service and royal weddings) and their Transatlantic Network 2020 project is throwing up some very interesting content such as this vignette by Zadi Diaz on online consumer behaviour.
NTT DOCOMO have announced that they will be attending CommunicAsia in Singapore (June 21 – 24) and a couple of things that they will be showing off caught my eye. First of all NTT DOCOMO are pushing the boundaries on technology to try and ensure that we can have world phones that support existing and [...]
LVMH Opens Heritage Sites To Public, Reasserts Roots In Craftsmanship – PSFK – I’d previously seen sports car manufacturers do this, interesting that LVMH is doing this. Probably to get over the preception that many of their bags are knocked out in Chinese factories If growth in the US is flatlining then where is Facebook’s [...]
What happens to kicking against the machine, when you become the machine? This is an interesting question that I have though about for a while and hasn’t had a clear answer. When rock and roll first became middle-aged in the 1980s you had investment bankers buying corporate boxes at Rolling Stones concerts and the concert [...]
Christos Faloutsos‘ works with big data at Carnegie Mellon University analysing massive social graphs.
On June 6, Apple announced a number of products at a keynote speech to kick off its worldwide developer conference. Mac OS X Lion and iOS 5 were widely anticipated; but the one that got the most attention was a service called iCloud. This service has received a fair bit of coverage and its worthwhile [...]
Nokia says in talks with several parties on NSN – not surprising For The First Time In Nine Months Bing Doesn’t Gain Search Share Communities Dominate Brands: To Save Nokia Would Take These Steps – Urgently As In Right Now! – Tomi Ahonen’s medicine for Nokia FT.com / Asia-Pacific – China’s SMEs face severe cash [...]
A lot of the really smart creative work is not in one media, but at the interface of two or more media. For instance the Old Spice adverts featuring Isaiah Mustafa done by Weiden + Kennedy went from TV advertising to Twitter and YouTube. Or the countless QR code campaigns which now seem to be [...]
Drew sent me through some of the details from the Mintel Marketing to Men report which is a psychographic segmentation of men as a market and their spending habits. 56 per cent of men surveyed were found to have no interest in ‘traditional’ men’s magazines. So it should come as no surprise about the big [...]
I bought a couple of starter units online for the fluorescent strip lamps I have in the house and they came in a cavernous box. I guess its a balance of carrying different packaging SKUs versus the amount of waste it causes
Britain tops Europe for app addiction — GigaOM – UK tends to be heaviest users of apps (maybe due to choice and handset carrier subsidies. In a similar adoption curve to online and social media – southern Europe tends to use apps less than northern Europe Microsoft Will Have To Pay $300 Million Patent Fine [...]
Here are the notes I made from a panel discussion on the benefits of the mobile web versus a native application. Things broadly split down with the technical rationale for the web; applications seems to be much more about what consumers want. There seemed to be an assumption that mobile network access is of a [...]
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