I grew up with my Dad’s book club hard copies of John LeCarré’s novels around the house and can remember snippets of the BBC mini-series with Alec Guinness at super sleuth George Smiley. I eventually read Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy when I was 13. If Tomas Alfredson’s version is as good as the trailers are [...]
Quality Danny Rampling set designed to keep the autumn blues at bay. Danny Rampling – Balearic Mystique @ Last Night A Dj Saved My Life by Balearic Mystique The set was recorded at the Light Bar in Shoreditch for the charity launch of Last Night A DJ Saved My Life, recorded on June 6, 2010.
Interesting panel discussion on business-to-business and consumer-orientated cloud storage. Interesting wider thoughts about the value of data and how this should affect storage and accessibility. It was refreshing to hear that the myth of broadband ubiquity wasn’t trotted out as gospel.
Adobe Museum of Digital Media – InForm: turning data into meaning exhibition with Wired magazine TD Quarterly Economic Forecast (September 13, 2011) – US growth stuck in neutral (PDF) Douban Raised US$50m Series C | TechNode Maps is top Android app for men, Facebook for women How UGG Got Its Y Chromosome Back | Fast [...]
Asian brokerage CLSA put together some interesting projections about the growth of the global luxury market. Two things came out of the data when I looked at it. The degree of China’s dominance as the luxury consumer moving forward The importance of international stores to Chinese luxury purchases. It doesn’t seem to be just about [...]
Branding and trends agency Chinayouthology have put together an interesting presentation on how young Chinese people are using social media and how their online lives differ from their offline lives. I used to describe online as augmenting offline lives in the west. In China, it seems to do so much more, providing a coping mechanism [...]
Interesting US-oriented panel discussion on mobile services featuring Foursquare, ngmoco part of Japanese gaming group DeNA, Mobclix mobile advertising exchange, GroupOn and Bionic Panda Games (Android game firm). It was interesting that all the panelists used an iPhone, but also had Android devices for testing. Roaming outside the US required another handset for many of [...]
Nissan Exec: Speed Is Key to Korean Rivals’ Jump – WSJ près Nous, Le Déluge « Patrick Chovanec – I think the company needs more active shareholders Your Anon News • URGE – interesting that they have moved to creating tools. I wonder if marketers will find it of use? Lunch with Shi Yongxin, the [...]
I have been a big fan of Chinese microblogging service Sina Weibo for a good while now, following the developments within the platform, you can find me online there at weibo.com/renaissancechambara. Hamid over at Fresh Networks put together a nice post explaining why brands should sign up to Weibo and what the set-up form means [...]
Interesting video from Social Media Club Kuala Lumpur on campaign measurement. You can find Social Media Club Kuala Lumpur on Twitter here.
I started thinking about this post when I was reading Bob Cringely’s excellent analysis of Bartz tenure at Yahoo!. I am not going to add my full analysis here but instead pull on a strand that highlights problems that exist at a number of internet companies and certainly existed at Yahoo! when I was there. [...]
Why Someone From Apple Needs To Ride The Shanghai Subway – Chinese usability on iPhone needs to be improved Military Times Gear Scout – This Ti whistle may save your ass, will be coveted by the search party if it doesn’t. – just pure product over-engineering ‘Call of Duty’ chief smacks down ISPs says they [...]
Kelly’s presentation is interesting partly because of his former role at Facebook. He brings both a technical and a legal perspective which is really interesting.
bordbar are a Cologne-based company that upcycle the aircraft trolleys that cabin staff use to serve food and drinks, turning them into household furniture. I like their flightcase aesthetic. bordbar are selling Air Berlin themed trolleys on their site and have done a number of different designs of trolleys for Lufthansa to sell via their [...]
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