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Disruption crisis
The idea of the disruption crisis came from a series of conversations that I have been having in recent times and recent online news. What is the disruption crisis? The rise of big tech such as Meta, Twitter, Google, Amazon, Bytedance, Alibaba and Tencent drove a wave of digital disruption over the past quarter century.…
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AI and creativity
Why AI and creativity? This post on AI and creativity was inspired by experiments being done at work by a member of our design department. They had been using Midjourney to create images within a minute of receiving an initial set of words as creative prompts. For example we created this surreal image which fits…
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Illegal foreign police stations + more things
Illegal foreign police stations The amount of stories about the Chinese illegal foreign police stations that have broke over the past couple of days is really interesting. The clampdown on illegal foreign police stations seems as if it was either coordinated, or there was an inciting incident that persuaded other governments that they had to…
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8964 museum + more news
8964 museum 六四記憶‧人權博物館 8964 Museum – 8964 Museum is a site ran from outside Hong Kong that acts a memorial for events running up to the June 4th 1989 protests in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. The 8964 museum site was originally built predominantly for a local Chinese audience in Hong Kong. The reason why its 8964…
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Web response times & things this week
Web response times I have been working with colleagues on a point of view that is impacted by web response times. During the research aspect of this work I came across this video by Jakob Nielsen which explained web response times really well. Web response time resources Ralph Bakshi I might have mentioned once or…
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Klarna + more things
Klarna How Klarna’s pastel pink exterior began to crack | Dazed – Klarna isn’t new technology, its unsecured financing. Once you scratch beneath Klarna’s technology veneer you realise that Klarna is like pre-internet business like a shopkeepers lay away or the catalogue agents who used to work for Freemans and Littlewoods. Previously the catalogue companies…
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Clubhouse & things that caught my eye this week
Korean American security researcher Brian Pak looked at Clubhouse and some of the findings were very interesting. Pak posted a full analysis in Korean here. The key takeouts for me where: Some (probably early adopter) Koreans have been buying used iPhones so that they can try Clubhouse, since the app is currently iOS only. The…
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Golden bull & things that caught my eye this week
Digital golden bull at Pavilion, Kuala Lumpur & Chinese new year The golden bull in question is on the digital screens of Pavilion, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Pavilion is an upscale shopping area and the animation was designed to tie into the year of the ox in the Chinese lunar calendar. The golden bull is supposed…
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BMW brand crisis + more things
BMW brand and business crisis I haven’t driven a BMW in well over 20 years, so Doug DeMuro’ update on the BMW brand was fascinating. The BMW brand issue hadn’t been on my radar until Doug DeMuro talked about it. A number of things seem to be happening with BMW. The company’s customer base is…