I was out having a catch-up and some food with a friend of mine over some food in Soho when I noticed the mail status on his iPhone: I asked him how it happened to which he replied: ‘you just get sent email that isn’t that interesting from people that you don’t know’. On my [...]
Futurist conversations: Ross Dawson and Gerd Leonhard on the future of Nokia | Trends in the Living Networks Om nom nom! Squawk! Angry Birds Mooncakes Hit China | Penn-Olson How does Sina Weibo Deal with Censorship and Comment Moderation – definite opportunities for reputation management using these regulations for Chinese websites AFP: Mooncake tax sparks [...]
NEMO Equipment Inc. is a US company that makes tents (very good tents by all accounts). They have moved into the market for sleeping bags and are using their existing community on Facebook and looked to co-opt some of them to help co-create their new products. They started the ball rolling with a range of [...]
Amazing video mash-up The East Is Red vs. Michael Jackson’s Beat It. The video is hosted on Chinese site Tudou so you need to be patient in terms of allowing it to load. Hat tip to Weibo user: 刘意-Cosmopolitanist.
The Walk | Don’t Walk signs that sit on the side of New York traffic lights are as much a part of the city as Yankee stadium. They feature in b-roll footage of New York and guest star in the background of TV shows and films. Artist John Carter makes working versions of these signs [...]
Facebook won’t ‘like’ its 17th complaint | Irish Examiner Doing Business at ART HK: Better, Bigger, Faster, Stronger : China Law Update Data point: Asia’s new generation of independent women | JWT Intelligence Asiajin » Ameba Pigg In Collaboration With GUCCI! Official Goods Sold – Japanese social network sells virtual luxury goods The Myth of [...]
Irish films tend to have a good gap between them, good Irish films have an even longer gap. The Guard fits into the latter category. Guard is colloquial Irish English used by older people for an officer of An Garda Síochána. The Guard of the title is a rural police officer portrayed by Brendan Gleeson; [...]
The Mozilla Foundation have created an ultimately pointless but beautiful social object. You answer some cod psychology questions about yourself and it give a desktop image that you explore by clicking on the objects to explain your unique web personality. Tty it yourself at Webify Me.
My Grandmother died on Thursday evening and unfortunately I couldn’t get to the funeral service in Ireland. She’d been ill for a good while and I had seen her in April when her health took a turn for the worse. But for me she’ll always be the woman who used to dance around the kitchen [...]
Asian demography: The flight from marriage | The Economist TechCrunch is Wrong: Here’s the Real Location Opportunity for Quora – its about context and answers when you need them Yahoo Mail hits 100 million users | CNET News – that numbers sounds low to me The changing landscape of hacktivism – TechRadar UK Bye-bye Brioni [...]
I decided to jot down some thoughts on the demise of the Palm | HP portable devices business. I am not going to say whether it was the right or wrong thing to do mainly because other people have been doing that already. HP and the mobile device HP was arguably the original modern mobile [...]
Traditionally the UK price for both hardware and software was the US price with a pound sign stuck in front, meaning an additional 50 per cent stuck on the top of the price. With HP’s Touchpad being sold for as little as 99 USD, Amazon UK’s price for the Touchpad seem excessive even by UK [...]
BBC News – UK mobile coverage map Epson, HSBC Korea, domain registrar hacked: 100,000 domains affected | ZDNet Google’s Horowitz: “We Need To Improve” Google Plus & Facebook’s Sharing Controls Are “Familiar” United Airlines Implements Paperless Cockpit – AllThingsD – its about incremental fuel savings and ease of updating documents: cutting down 34 pounds of [...]
Late UK time on August 24, 2011 Steve Jobs resigned as CEO of Apple, but stayed on as chairman. I heard about it when an email from David Farber to the Interesting People email list dropped into my inbox at 23:48 UK time – this claimed that the news had gone on AP. I checked [...]
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