Delaware-based font designers House Industries bring a mid-century commercial printing aesthetic to their work, or what Peter York may describe as mid-century atomic ranch typography. They also design objects in association with the likes of Herman Miller Japan and Conran Japan. They make and sell their own design of wooden koi carp that would look [...]
Yahoo Chief Trust Officer Quits in Style on Facebook – AllThingsD – interesting that it went on Facebook justsayin’ Cup of Joe: Is Social Media Marketing Dying? – social media marketing as a specialism that is, rather than as an adjunct to other businesses is taking a tumble Irs looks into google’s tax avoidance techniques- [...]
Up until last week, Research In Motion was up 99.97 per cent of the time. The three days outage early in the month wasn’t a complete disaster in itself. The problem is as much about a wider narrative around BlackBerry makers Research In Motion (RIM): Shipments have declined in European markets The co-CEOs have made [...]
The savvy executive’s guide to buying back shares – McKinsey Quarterly – don’t try is the key message Q&A: Canceling a Digital Subscription – NYTimes.com Apps Beat Web | Forrester Blogs – consumers perfer using apps Introducing Generation O Big biz told to reveal hack attacks • The Register – big implications for reputation Wahooly: [...]
It was 2000, the over-enthusiasm for internet-based businesses, alternative telecoms providers and Linux eco-system businesses was in full-swing and I was building my agency career helping further fuel the economic bubble. Broadband wasn’t a word in common parlance, streaming video windows were about the size of a postage stamp; that didn’t stop sites like UK [...]
A really interesting question and answer session with developers from 1997 which sheds more light on Steve Jobs thinking about Apple. His comments on marketing the Newton and Mac clones are much more nuanced than one would have been led to believe reading the coverage and it is a shame that the candour shown in [...]
I took this picture a while ago in a local supermarket. At the time I was stunned by the product and didn’t know what to really say. This wasn’t just a technology looking for a problem but relies on a use case of unparalleled laziness by your average consumer.
I, Cringely » Blog Archive » The second coming of Java WeatherSpark | Beautiful Weather Graphs and Maps RIM details why BlackBerry users haven’t had email for two days – Pocket-lint – stunned Google engineer calls Google+ a “pathetic afterthought” and “knee-jerk reaction” | ZDNet Pacific Place undergoes Monocle treatment | Market-interactive.com understanding the facebook [...]
A great presentation by Tim Stock on the culture of luxury: if you read the blog, probably nothing you don’t know but really elegant in its delivery. The Culture of Luxury 2011 (Brand Packaging) View more presentations from Tim Stock The presentation is on Slideshare, so may not be visible to some people.
I’ve seen it numerous times before, you show a public relations person a word cloud for the first time based on the contents of a client or competitor website and you see a dramatic change. Their eyes gain focus rather than looking glassy and vacant, their cheeks get a bit of colour and they lean [...]
Jared Spool does user interaction design and usability or as he calls it software human factors and gave a talk on what makes a design intuitive. Key outtakes Don’t be too clever or too stupid in a design Follow common norms (an asterisk by a field on a web form usually means mandatory completion) otherwise [...]
An Overview of the U.S. Wireless Industry | CTIA-The Wireless Association® Blog The Best Video Chat App for Mac ExtremeTech – Improve your sight with IPhone app – really? Dachis Facebook Business Index Goes Public In IV’s New Lawsuit Against Motorola, The Devil Is In The Details | The Patent Examiner Reply-all fail: PR calls [...]
Japanese pen company Zebra Co. Ltd has a pen with a stainless steel body, the kind of build-quality in a pen that other manufacturers usually charge a lot more money for. The pen is bought to be modified by consumers; they replace the ink cartridge with a Fisher Pen cartridge that allows the pen to [...]
With all the talk about legacy of Steve Jobs and the success of the i-products: iTunes, iPod, iPhone and iPad; one tends to forget that this success was based on Apple reinventing the MacOS from patchwork on a decade-old piece of software and moving things forward. I started using OSX at the end of 2001 [...]
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