Search results for: “Stewart Butterfield”
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Pipes by Yahoo
I discovered something at the end of last year. The belatedly missed Yahoo Pipes was, in fact, officially called “Pipes by Yahoo.” I made that mistake, despite being well-versed in the brand guidelines, having spent a year working there with a copy consistently at my side. Now, why this journey down the memory superhighway? That’s…
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PPE Medpro + more stuff
PPE Medpro While everyone from from organised criminals to Chinese government hackers were robbing governments blind during the COVID crisis, in the UK the scandal surrounding PPE Medpro seems particularly egregious. The tale of PPE Medpro goes back to the VIP programme that the UK government used to secure PPE through politically connected companies. PPE…
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Darren McGarvey + more things
Darren McGarvey The BBC had Darren McGarvey on, reading is own book The Social Distance Between Us. Something is added to the content through McGarvey’s own voice reciting his own book adapted for the ‘book of the week’ slot. His Glaswegian accent and experience recording Scottish tinged rap helps in his delivery. Darren McGarvey is…
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Magic donkey
I was reading Rob Manuel’s Facebook post about the origin of B3ta’s ‘magic donkey’ and its wider connection to the modern dystopian web experience. B3ta and magic donkey I guess it makes sense to first explain what B3ta is. B3ta is a community of bored driven people with a creative bent and a finely tuned…
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Gudetama + more things
Gudetama joined the great and the good by being rendered in The Wall Street Journal‘s famous portraiture style. This has featured the most notable characters over the years from bankers to statesmen and even Hello Kitty. It was funny to see Sanrio’s lazy egg yolk character Gudetama get his own portrait lying on his bed. More…
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Yahoo Q2 2015 progress report on product prioritisation
With the Yahoo Q2 2015 progress report on product prioritisation – Yahoo! published a list of properties that it was closing down and services that it was changing support on over the next few months. Most of the coverage amongst the people I follow has been around the shutdown of Yahoo! Pipes, as despite its…
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Drones in advertising and things that caught my eye this week
Pepsi has got in on drones in advertising before it all goes a bit lame and tired. Some really interesting projection mapping type effects as well Drones in advertising builds on work that has been done since the Beijing olympics on the use of drone swarms for massed visuals that are complementary to fireworks and…
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FES watch + more things
Who’s Behind the E-paper FES Watch? – Digits – WSJ – interesting the way Sony has become an internal VC operation. It makes sense since they need disruptive innovation and they still have smart people. they also need to allow their engineering talent to keep having an outlet for their creativity. The FES watch is…
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Divergence
Whilst smartphones and tablets may look like general purpose devices that support convergence; what is actually happening is that divergence is taking place around different fault lines, understanding those fault-lines is key. Context The rise of smart watches and wearables, regardless of how these designs are currently failing, recognise that just the right information at…