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Archive for July 2011

The Google+ Spam mystery

I’ve lurked on Google+ as the network hadn’t grown big enough for me to gain much use out of it. And then I started to receive updates from people I vaguely knew directly to my work email address. Basically spam. So I decided to run a trial update myself on the service to understand how [...]

Ogilvy on the big idea

Great thought provoking paper on the ‘big idea’ What’s The big ideaL? View more documents from Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide  

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Internet Marketing Strategy – free-to-download briefing document on what Econsultancy considers to be five key online trends: customer centricity, channel diversification, data, social media and content strategy Majority of South Koreans’ data exposed | FT.com – the interesting bit is the data wipe of PCs used in the attack to hide fingerprints When Will a [...]

Whatever happened to luxury brand Chloé’s online push in China? | 被遗弃的奢侈品牌的营销活动?

French luxury ready-to-wear pioneer and Richemont Group fashion brand Chloé drove forward with an expansionist strategy for the Chinese market earlier this year with a webcast fashion show, corporate blog and an ambitious e-commerce strategy. The webcast fashion show was supposed to be about the fifth anniversary of the brand, but was more about expanding [...]

A problem called Bing

When the latest Microsoft results came out one of the biggest drags on it was losses made by the company’s online services business; specifically the search product Bing. The challenge Google has had an immense head start in building the best search engine (at least for Roman-based languages), it has built up an unrivaled search [...]

Pure Popbitch Gold

Back in the day when I worked at Pirate Communications in the early noughties, the office used to go silent for 15 minutes or so on a Thursday afternoon when Popbitch used to arrive in the email boxes of the office. Now and again, only one person would get it and everyone else’s version of [...]

Fascinating talk on building scalable web software

Bradford Stephens has worked with many of the great and the good firms in big data from Visible Technologies to Twitter. His presentation addresses the complexity and considerations required to build large web services. Some of the variables in it reminded me of the foibles that analogue electronics engineers used to go through.

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Android’s Dirty Secret: Shipping Numbers Are Strong But Returns Are 30-40% | TechCrunch – this doesn’t surprise me, Windows Mobile also used to have high return rates on their handsets. Also as smartphones replace feature phones we can expect this to be a continuing trend due to user confusion InterDigital files ITC complaint against Nokia, [...]

I like: Wu-Tang Clan – Legendary Weapons

The carefully blended melange of ethereal R&B samples, kung-fu and wushu sound effects with snippets of dubbed English dialogue from old Hong Kong action films says that Legendary Weapons is is a perfectly crafted Wu-Tang Clan track.

Japan: end of analogue TV transmissions video meme

On Sunday, Japan shut down most of its analogue TV network (apart from the provinces that had been worst hit by the earthquakes earlier this year).Once I got over the shock that there was still analogue transmissions in Japan because as a westerner I always have this idea of Japan living in the future, I [...]

Facial recognition – conflicted ethics

Former CEO Eric Schmidt made a big deal of facial recognition databases being the one technology that Google wouldn’t deploying as it is an ethical and privacy set too far. Facial recognition is currently used in law enforcement situations from policing football matches to anti-terrorism detection and surveillance amongst crowds. Google does use a certain [...]

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Asiajin » Japanese Twitter Users Play On New Japanese Hashtags- social media memes in Japan depend on local language and culture Mini-Microsoft: Microsoft FY11Q4 Results Apple Sales in China Zoom Ahead of Competitors – NYTimes.com DOJ takes swipe at EFF over encryption passphrases | CNET News Analog TV broadcasting comes to an end in Japan [...]

What does hackgate say about the UK audience?

Much has been made this week on the Murdoch’s appearing at a parliamentary inquiry into phone hacking and other nefarious practices by the media in order to get stories. What is less getting less to no real discussion is what this says about the UK audience. News International is a business, if the content didn’t [...]

Borders US: staying classy in the face of administration

In the past decade Borders went from opening up book superstores across the UK, following on from its rollout throughout the US to liquidation in the US after store closures. Border US sent out this email to customers that I got hold of via the Consumerist. The email was designed to provide information on their [...]

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