I use Echofon on my work Mac since its OS doesn’t have the App store on it. Echofon is an advert-supported piece of software and usually I am not that interested. 140Proof sell the ads and in the spirit of Twitter keep the copy down to below 140 characters. This copy from News Corporation’s The [...]
The Los Angeles Times did a short film of Last For One who were made famous in the the documentary Planet B-Boy. The split screen style apes 1960s action film titles. The video is on the YouTube service so may not be able to be watched everywhere.
I had lunch at Pizza Express the other week and noticed that the cutlery were kept on the table in a branded can. At first I thought that the can was specially for that purpose and to convey the brand message. I passed another Pizza Express restaurant the other day and noticed that they were [...]
Top 10 global retail and auction sites: Global – Digital Intelligence I, Cringely » Larry Page’s Manhattan Project – big bets rather than smaller fast failure model Interview: Fashion Designer Peggy Tan’s Cheongsam Dream « Jing Daily Asiajin » English Broadcaster NHK World Starts Free Ustream Channel Is 14nm the end of the road for [...]
When Google opened up it’s Google Plus network to it’s entire user base rather than invites Google highlighted it to everyone with a very organic-blue arrow. This irritated me at the time for a couple of reasons: It looked like vandalism of the clean search engine page. Google’s doodles aren’t human but engaging and perfectly [...]
Great presentation by Jeffrey Zeldman of US web design shop Happy Cog on why now is the time of the web designer Zeldman articulates how web technological progress such as HTML5, CSS3, and web fonts are allowing web developers to build great web applications on web standards. Whilst Zeldman is right to talk about the [...]
Facebook: Sharing it all | The Economist – Facebook the sociopathic network India at “phase one”, says LVMH: News from Warc.com – bespoke is big with Indian luxury consumers Will The iPhone 5 Kill The Car? @PSFK – cars losing their status position with younger consumers. This has already happened in Japan. The one thing [...]
My client Experian have put out research on Facebook usage out this morning. The research had two tables. The first table looked at the average time spend on Facebook Market Average time spent on Facebook in August 2011 per session Singapore 38 mins 46 sec New Zealand 30 mins 31 sec Australia 26 mins 27 [...]
Vice-chairman of Ogilvy UK Rory Sutherland always provides good value as a presenter, in this case talking about cognitive bias and behavioural economics. Rory emphasises that society is more interested in making change happen through technology or regulation rather than tapping into persuasion or psychology as he puts it. This video is hosted on Vimeo [...]
One of the key challenges that I outlined regarding the future of Facebook last November was that of increasingly inactive profiles. Why are inactive profiles particularly bad for Facebook? At the top-level inactive Facebook users call into question the value that has been put on the social network by investors Facebook at its heart is [...]
What if People Stop Sharing? Facebook Has the Answer | SiliconANGLE – Facebook trying to hedge against less active network members Samsung lawsuits against Apple over 3G patents could backfire Why Facebook Timeline Is Made For Its Youngest Users [OPINION] How Facebook Ate the Web – it looks like Aol on the ascendancy NASA releases [...]
Matt talks about how youth culture and digital sharing is changing business models. ‘Pirates’ are also a source of innovation 3D printing is likely to expand piracy much further as they will be available to consumers and internet enabled in a decade’s time Fighting consumers doesn’t work, though the entertainment industry continues to spend money [...]
Sense Worldwide hosted a Creative Morning in London with a talk by Chris Bangle, formerly of BMW who now runs his own firm. Chris is now interested in empowerment, specifically letting design happen without designers. A curve isn’t only about mathematics, but also about a person’s set of correctness Artisans as co-creators with architects rather [...]
Robert B. Reich has interesting take on the causes of the recent financial woes is less to do with banking systems and more to do with lies in the increasing concentration of wealth in the hands of the richest Americans (and other elites in their respective countries), while stagnant wages and rising costs have forced [...]
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