Month: January 2015
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Rooster sauce & things that made my day this week
David Tran, the founder and CEO of Huy Fong Foods, on how Rooster sauce came about David Tran is a Vietnamese man of Chinese ethnic origin. Sriracha sauce actually has its origins in Thai cooking where is also called man phrik. The Vietnamese use it as a condiment for pho and fried Noodles. Huy Fong…
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Desktop and mobile messaging
Whatsapp gets into desktop and mobile messaging Over the past few weeks WhatsApp has rolled out a web client to complement its previously mobile-only experience. From a technical point-of-view this was WhatsApp playing catch-up with its rivals. Skype has long been a multi-platform desktop and mobile messaging system that made the leap to phones over…
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Group direct messages + more news
Now on Twitter: group Direct Messages and mobile video camera | Twitter Blogs – playing catch up with OTT messaging apps with group direct messages. Media Disney’s Maker Studios Struggles to Migrate Its Audience To Maker.tv – CMO Today – can’t get the traffic off YouTube Online Mayer’s Yahoo Plan Could Affect Softbank Interests – WSJ – it…
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Yoshiharu Sato & more
Yoshiharu Sato I am a big fan of Studio Ghibli – a kind of Japanese thinking mans Disney Studio. One of their alumni Yoshiharu Sato has branched out and produced this amazing advert for a Japanese alcohol brand with a strong theme of nostalgia. Like Studio Ghibli, Yoshiharu Sato creates amazingly emotive animation. The Ghibli…
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Li Ka shing + more news
From ‘superman’ to ‘big tiger’, Li Ka shing loses favour with Beijing | South China Morning Post – interesting analysis of the changing sentiment of the Chinese government to Li Ka shing. Li Ka-shing has managed to walk his own path, even compared to other Hong Kong oligarchs. He was also able to play well with…
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Changing definition of what social means
What social means This inspiration for this post about what social means came from working with business-to-business marketing clients and prospects. Its based on thinking I’ve done over the past six months or so. Based on the experience I had talking to clients and the work that I have been doing I came up with…
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NSA spying + more things
Former MS privacy chief warned of NSA spying | Telecom Asia – The issue is that most privacy laws were drafted to cover communications, not computing and that technically it is possible to encrypt data and store it securely in the cloud. However, that is not possible if one wants to compute with that data – NSA…
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New Balance China & things that made my week
New Balance China made a video out of what looks like a product photoshoot of different MT580 colour ways New Balance China like New Balance Japan seems to move to its down design language. I had fallen out of touch with podcasts since the demise of Lawrence Staden and Stephen Bell’s ‘Loz n Belly’ weekly commentary…
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2015 predictions
It’s become a bit of an annual tradition on this blog for me to put together some guesswork on what is likely to be coming down the pipe over the next 12 months so here are my 2015 predictions. Business Sony Corp. cleans house with the management teams of its US businesses. One of Sony’s…