Month: October 2012

  • Rocket Fuel instant coffee

    I was dubious when I first saw Rocket Fuel with a packaging and copywriting that brought me back to the early 1990s. First a velvet rush  like no other of caffeine rich smoothness, then a sustained hit of all natural Guarana I presume this is to try and tap into a mind hack caffiene culture…

  • MasterCard + more news

    MasterCard NTT DOCOMO and MasterCard to offer NFC payments in 41 countries— MasterCard PayPass merchants to accept DOCOMO’s iD-brand mobile credit payments — | Press Center | NTT DOCOMO Global – interesting move by MasterCard. NTT DoCoMo, Sony and other Japanese countries have already been ing the NFC payments business for a while. MasterCard will…

  • Completely wrong

    I didn’t notice this until Laura Scott pointed it out on Twitter yesterday, but Mitt Romney dominates searches for completely wrong on Google image search.At first I thought that this was some form of Google bomb perpetrated by liberal leaning digerati, but on investigation it seems to have been self inflicted by the Romney campaign. The…

  • The Quantified Self

    Here are some miscellaneous thoughts that have been kicking around at the back of my head around health 2.0 | the quantified self or whatever else one would like to call it. First of all, this isn’t some shiny new revolution, like most technology stories, it has been a long train running that has slowly…

  • Hurun listings & more news

    Hurun Money slipping through China’s wealthiest fingers: Hurun|WantChinaTimes.com – Hurun is like the Forbes or Sunday Times rich lists. In other countries being on the rich list brings scrounging letters from charities and assorted liggers, possibility heightened security risks due to kidnapping attempts. Being in Hurun also means immense government scrutiny. Even the most politically…