Facebook have released a video to explain the hows and wherefores of their new location-based service addition to the social network Godzilla. You could argue about whether this is sharing too much in one place or what kind of privacy car-crash Facebook will make out of location data but that is for a another time. [...]
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I don’t know whether they are doing this already, or whether they tried and fell out. But I do know that the key phrase ‘iphone bbm’ currently is giving me regular traffic to this post: Where’s my iPhone BBM?, indicating a keen interest out there in netizens for this to happen. Google Analytics as a [...]
Blackberry has one killer application and it isn’t email which others can replicate easily. In North America, you can get a lifetime mobile email appliance the Peek Pronto for a one-time payment of $299; as a technology email has become almost as democratised as SMS on mobile devices. Those phones that don’t have it are [...]
I went to MiniBar the other Friday with my old Yahoo! buddy Chieu and started discussing the whys and wherefores of augmented technology. We met up with Zack who was a former engineer at Yahoo! and carried on the discussion at Sichuan restaurant Barshu in Soho. The food was great. Firstly, on the surface the [...]
Tokyo Girls Collection and Shibuya Girls Collection are twice yearly events held in Tokyo ran by blogs Candywalker.com and Girlswalker.com that highlight the latest Japanese fashion ranges to young women. The events attract 20,000 attendees. What is very impressive about the events is: The tight integration of the live experience with an e-commerce and m-commerce [...]
In some ways trips to see family and friends in Liverpool have become an anthropological aspect to them. I get outside my media industry / early adopter bubble and get to see how the general public use technology and the internet. Whilst 2008 will go down in the annals of history for the housing bubble [...]
Robin and Sandrine of we are social introduced me to a new marketing campaign for the Ford Ka (that’s the small one that handles like a petrol-powered skateboard) at Mobile Geeks of London event. I meant to blog about it, but I have been exceptionally slack (sorry Sandrine and Robin), so I slapped Dreadzone on [...]
I have been thinking a lot about James Warren’s essay on inline PR for PR Week’s digital essay’s supplement, which in its breaking down of silo-ed online and offline campaigns mirrors my own thoughts on marketing and the development of the ‘web-of-no-web’. I won’t repeat James’ essay you can go over to his blog and [...]
My friend Jenny reached out to me the other week. Like so many of us, she’d finally left Yahoo! and found a new home at Goodrec, a SFO start-up that provides recommendations (at which point I can hear you sign and think to yourself: why should I care, there’s plenty of them like Yelp, Qype, [...]
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