Mercedes Benz G63 AMG
Mercedes Benz G63 AMG 6×6 « Gear Patrol – I can’t work out if the Mercedes Benz G63 AMG 6×6 is amazing or stupid. It is based on the G Wagen which is a proper off-road vehicle. The 6×6 platform used was developed for the military like Germany’s KSK special forces unit. The Mercedes Benz G63 AMG adds a ridiculously overturned engine. AMG then has to go over every inch of the Mercedes Benz G63 and change chassis and components to adequately handle the power.
Business
16th annual CEO survey – pwc – (PDF)
Consumer behaviour
Chinese women aspire to be housewives | Market-interactive.com
Study: Twitter debates don’t represent opinions of general public (Wired UK)
Share Everything: Why the Way We Consume Has Changed Forever – Emily Badger – The Atlantic Cities
Design
BMW announced it’s i3 Coupe concept this week. It was buzzword compliant with plug-in technology; but the most interesting thing for me about it was the way in which the car shows the current range that could be travelled as part of its in-car instrumentation.
It was a duh moment of genius simplicity in terms of user experience design for vehicles.
Economics
China: Beyond The Miracle | Zero Hedge – interesting piece of analysis
Q&A with Jim ‘BRIC’ O’Neill: Grillo’s good, China’s fine, Europe’s fading – Quartz
The fourth euro crisis cycle of panic has officially begun – Quartz
Euro zone unemployment hits a record high of 11.9% – Quartz
Finance
Why delinquent student loans are the fuse on America’s next debt bomb – Quartz
Rigging the I.P.O. Game – NYTimes.com – this reminds me of the first day ‘pop’ that my former client VA Lnux had when they IPO’d
UK and US toe the edge of a “regulatory trade war” over banking – Quartz
Hong Kong
Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA Breaks Down His Kung Fu Samples by Film and Song
How to
How to RSVP in an Entrepreneurial Way | AlwaysOn
Twitter Archiving Google Spreadsheet TAGS v3 Jisc CETIS MASHe
Nintendo games on a Mac – Matt Gemmell
Creation Pinpoint™ | Dashboard for Understanding What Doctors Talk About Online. – New SM listening/monitoring tool for pharma – allows you to monitor only what HCPs are saying
Korea
Microsoft Seeks Software License from South Korea Military – Korea Real Time – WSJ
London
Evening Standard – FIFTY BEST: Independent coffee shops – as a Foursquare list
Catching Up with the City Boy Who Spilled the City’s Secrets | VICE United Kingdom – interview with Geraint Anderson formerly a columnist in thelondonpaper
Luxury
Collectables – British Airways Business Life. – modern items that are collectable
Marketing
The Agenda for the Global Marketer – ad people worldwide – interesting white paper (PDF)
Outside looking in – EIU – challenges CMO faces in dealing with the board
Media
Tumblr to Introduce Mobile Advertising to Help Achieve Profit – Bloomberg
#LFW: The ELLE UK Twitter report | ELLE UK – since when was fashion a democracy? Elle uses Twitter as an arbiter of taste. More related luxury content here.
Digital Media in China – Digital Media Asia
Social media policy | immediate future. – library of social media policies
Pottermore Reaches Out To Harry Potter Fan Sites – affiliate marketing doesn’t pay that well
Online
TelecomTV | Reality bites: Fed-up with Facebook, the kids are are going somewhere “cooler”. – can’t say that I am surprised beyond the fact that network effects had been such a break on the retreat
5 things that may change on your Facebook timeline – CTV
Facebook algorithm stopping you see the content you subscribe to, unless brands pay | The Wall Blog
The age of the brag is over: why Facebook might be losing teens | The Verge
The Decline and Fall of Social Networks
Andrew Mason on being fired by the Groupon board
Security
Penn Schoen Berland – Execs say cyber-attacks a top priority – PSB is a sister agency
Google services should not require real names: Vint Cerf | Reuters
First SOPA, Now Your Privacy: Facebook, Google Flex Lobbying Muscle in Europe | Mother Jones
Software
Google controls too much of China’s smartphone sector: ministry | Reuters – 90 per cent market share
Jolla Wants To Build A Foursquare Phone, A Facebook Phone | TechCrunch
Microsoft Might Owe Denmark More Than $1 Billion in Unpaid Tax
Keeping the Wolfram from the Data
Fontastic – A Processing library to create font files
Who’ll win the consumer video codec battles?
Resurgence in Neural Networks – tjake.blog
Journo & Literate CoffeeScript
Learning How to Code Is A Waste of Time – Forbes
Technology
PC market to decline for a second consecutive year in 2013, says IDC
Library Camp London – Audio Recordings & Writeup | Terence Eden has a Blog
Intel will make 14nm FPGAs for Altera
Logitech reorganises to focus on mobile products
Why Nobody Can Copy Apple | cek.log
Telecoms
Exclusive-Skype’s Jonathan Rosenberg, Father of SIP, Bolts Back To Cisco – VoIP Watch
Wireless
Why the Galaxy S4 won’t be shedding its plastic roots | CNET News