Interesting interview with New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman on the rise of China and contrasts this with the state of the US. It says much about the state of the American mind and asks why western territories have a period of stuckness as their countries don’t have the same commitment to progress and economic [...]
Former Bing Product Lead: Why Personalized Social Search Is Unrealistic (For Now) | Fast Company Europe turns to private label goods: Warc.com – due to economic decline Facebook Users Expect Privacy but Don’t Know How to Get It Why Firefox Isn’t Doomed SAP Invades Radian6 Territory with Social Media Drill-down Tool – ReadWriteCloud Biting At [...]
Before immersive graphic computer games there was text adventures that ran on early home computers. Jason Scott presented his documentary Get Lamp about the storytelling of early computer games. Looking at the games, PROs can learn a lot about building stories for audiences and media to engage with. The video is on YouTube, so may [...]
Networked Society: On the Brink is a short documentary film commissioned by Ericsson which talks about how the internet has changed. I really liked it because it had perspectives of the post dot.com burst from the likes of Caterina Fake. Well worth the 21 minutes of your time that it takes up. The video is [...]
I was interested by Mark Buchanan’s work because of the understanding that it promised for networks. Buchanan does a good job at simplifying scientific theory in a similar to James Gleick at the start of the book and it certainly provides food for thought. However, the book could be a third shorter if the editors [...]
Facebook’s Video Views Rising, But Mostly For Discovery | paidContent – does mobile mean less engagement with Facebook? Nokia to sell luxury Vertu subsidiary Tablets Attracting Repeat Buyers, Unemployed, Says Study – Forbes – if you have an Amazon Kindle Fire tablet you’re likely to be unemployed Raise Taxes on Rich to Reward True Job [...]
Vanessa Friedman in her Material World column wrote about a new social marketing book called Brand Aid by Lisa Ann Rochey and Stefano Ponte; Friedman discussed the key concept of the book – causesumerism as: …the increasing tendency of luxury and fashion brands to help consumers justify purchases by injecting a note of do-goodism into [...]
OFW stands for Overseas Filipino Workers. Estimates on Wikipedia sourced from government agencies estimate that OFWs account for 8.6 – 11 million Filipino citizens or about 11 per cent of the population – working outside the country sending home money to look after their families. Coca-Cola sent some of them that otherwise wouldn’t have had [...]
Here’s What People See When They Look At Your Facebook Profile Roger McNamee Explains Why Windows Is Dying The Most Depressing Thing We Heard A VC Say This Week – European investors lack ambition Terence Eden has a Blog » Lumia Review – and spanks the Windows phone China enters ‘disinflationary phase’ Standard Chartered trim [...]
I spent a day in Paris with Ruder Finn colleagues and as with most of my trips away I treated it as a anthropological opportunity. I was in town the same day as Le Web was running, but digital Paris was a distant cousin to the Paris that I saw: Digital and mass-transit – When [...]
JWT usually put some smart thinking into their ideas around what will be big in next year and this year is no exception. JWT 10 Trends for 2012 Executive Summary View more presentations from JWTIntelligence A quick list of takeouts The recession and economic adjustment is now the norm and companies will change their products [...]
Pacific Standard Time commissioned a video with Ice Cube talking about his Los Angeles, pointing out a range of mid-century modern buildings and his appreciation of the work of Charles and Ray Eames. Ice Cube (real name O’Shea Jackson) had an appreciation of design from a year in college studying architectural drafting. The video is [...]
Despite High Unemployment, U.S. Companies Are Hiring From Overseas At Record Pace – using foreign workers to undercut US workers wages Intel, Micron announcement may mean beefier iOS drives | MacNews – and more realistic SSD drives? Late Late maintains hold on audiences | Irish Examiner – still defining the social agenda Timeless language tips [...]
Despite working as a digital strategist and creative thinker (whatever the hell that means) agencyside, I have a very pragmatic relationship with technology. I have had Macs since 1989, primarily because they were the closest thing I found to a computer that just worked. I had analogue mobile phones from my time DJing and having [...]
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