Month: June 2014
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Emotion research paper by Facebook
Over the weekend if you went on to quality (not Buzzfeed) news sites you would have probably seen something about a scientific paper that was published by researchers in the pay of Facebook on how emotion spreads through social networks. Emotion research explainer There was a lot of copy written already about the experiment, so…
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Android moves to life OS
If you read the Telegraph online last Wednesday 25th or the Financial Times on Thursday 26th June, you would have seen some great coverage about Google’s developer conference with Android’s move to become a life OS. There was also coverage about the corresponding rise of the Android economy in the UK. Like iOS and web development, software and services…
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Google IO: who is Google trying to disrupt?
Google IO this week played out like a science fair trying to be an Apple keynote. It was interesting for me to watch to try and discern how this will affect commercial rivals. Google IO and Java The most obvious casualty of Google IO announcements is not Apple or Microsoft but the Java language that…
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Umeng & other things this week
Umeng Umeng have put together a great presentation on consumer behaviour and mobile in China’s tier 3 cities. Most of what you read focuses on tier one and tier two cities in China. Umeng provides insight into large yet untapped markets just below the biggest most-developed cities in China. The tier three cities that Umeng…
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Hospital spies & other news
Hospital spies Hospital Spies on Your Purchases to Spot Bad Habits – Bloomberg – hospital spies presents an interesting privacy dilemma and they aren’t even using social data yet. We need to start thinking defensively about content and other aspects of our lives in terms of operational security. Hospital spies are likely to be the…
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Inhibitors and other news
Inhibitors WPP CEO Sorrell Says Regional Offices Can Be ‘Inhibitors’ | Advertising Age – interesting tension happening here; part of the reason for the inhibitors that there isn’t a power to yes is because the power structures aren’t designed right. A second inhibitor issue is also that the centre is all asking for the wrong things.…
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Thoughtful China & other things
Thoughtful China As ever, the guys at Thoughtful China have come up with some quality content. In this episode David Wolf talks about how Chinese brands are looking to go global. It’s brands but not as you know them Beauty Beauty products brand Kiehl’s outreach to men could school a lot of luxury brands. Just…
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CML Earth sunset
CML Earth – the sudden disappearance of a social network Yesterday Novartis Oncology sent out an email to the subscribers of a small global community called CMLEarth. Dear Subscriber, Since the launch of CML Earth in December 2008, the mission of the social network has been to provide members of the CML community with a…
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UC Web + other news
UC Web Alibaba buys up UC Web in ‘biggest merger in the history of China’s Internet’ | VentureBeat – or really expensive deal to get on the chrome. UC Web made a web browser that was popular in China and South East Asia. UC Web has created a joint venture with Alibaba that will help…