Month: December 2017
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Autonomous car technology + other news
Autonomous car technology Baidu accuses former staffer of stealing autonomous car technology | FT – interesting case. Presumably it must involve autonomous car technology that falls outside the scope of the Apollo open source software project. Baidu started Apollo as an open source initative on autonomous car technology. Who would the staffer be giving this…
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Hidden information design
I’ve stared at UK mainline railway station departure boards at many times over the years, yet there is hidden information design that I just caught on to. I am usually fixated on the platform number and whether it will leave on time. So it was only this week that I picked up on the hidden…
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HBN & other things from last week
Human by Nature or HBN are a relatively new streetwear brand. This HBN football shirt caught my eye; a logo that skirts perilously close to the wrath of New Balance. And the HBN geometric pattern looks like a blown up version of the adidas ‘leaf design’ 1990-92 Manchester United away shirt, but at the same scale…
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200 billion dollars & other news
200 billion dollar markets Upgrade to 5G Costs 200 Billion Dollars a Year, May Not Be Worth It | Advertising Age – this will be interesting. 3G mobile networks were in a similar position at launch. I remember going to a Cap Gemini conference at the time, where research from European mobile operator c-suite opinions…
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China marketing agency landscape
China marketing agency changes Over the past two decades the China marketing agency landscape had got used to go-go growth, just by showing up. The Xi-era of China has seen the end of the go-go years in economic growth in China. This economic maturation was one of the factors picked up on Arun Sudhaman’s analysis…
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Most popular blog posts of 2017
How did I go to define the most popular blog posts of 2017. I looked at my most trafficked articles from January to June 2017 here. What did June to December look like? # Title Notes 1 Is your PR plan good enough? A series of six posts and a work book on developing and…
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Block sales on Amazon & other news
Block sale of luxury goods on Amazon Luxury Brands Win Right to Block Sales of Goods on Amazon in Europe – WSJ – in its findings giving the right to block sales on Amazon, the European Court of Justice takes an expansive view of luxury brands “The quality of luxury goods is not simply the…
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Facebook API + more news
Facebook Is Shutting Down Its API That Marketers Lean on for Research – Adweek – big for proprietary agency tools, social media tools and ad platforms that rely the Facebook API – it shows how vulnerable the ad tech sector is Spicing up Hong Kong’s Café scene | Marketing Interactive – great write-up of Café…
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You are not safe
You are not safe was a theme that echoed through a period drama on Silicon Valley yet is equally applicable today. I have been catching up on Halt and Catch Fire. It is a fiction based on various aspects of Silicon Valley lore. I have enjoyed watching it immensely to a point. I was especially…