Search results for: “sony”
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Bill Bernbach & things that made last week
Bill Bernbach Advertising pioneer Bill Bernbach in conversation with Helmut Krone talk about advertising with some interesting examples of what we’d now call challenger marketing. I have been reading Bill Bernbach Said this week. Its a book of quotes from Bernbach that advertising DDB compiled over his time as a leader. The Avis ads were…
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Yahoo Answers
Back in 2005, I worked in the search group at Yahoo!. One of the projects that I worked on was Yahoo Answers. 16 years later, Yahoo Answers is being closed down. I thought I would capture some of my memories and inside knowledge on Yahoo Answers. But first we need some context so that what…
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Collapse OS + more things
Collapse OS — Bootstrap post-collapse technology – a vision of dystopian technology that fits right in with William Gibson’s more recent views of the future with the Jackpot. A slow moving systemic collapse due to global warming, flooding, pollution, global conflict, terrorism and pandemics The battle inside Signal – Platformer – Casey Newton has pulled together…
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CES 2021
CES 2021 – the Consumer Electronics Show usually sets the tone at the start of the year for consumer-oriented technology. It usually fills up Las Vegas’ hotels and conference facilities. CES 2021 went online only. Like attending online conferencing the experience was lacking. Networking and informal conversations aren’t something that technology has managed to solve.…
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Fractured tech lobby + more things
The fractured tech lobby’s uphill battles – Axios – The fractured tech lobby is a sign of too many firms working at cross purposes. – The Internet Association was founded almost a decade ago to be Silicon Valley’s voice in Washington. But now its biggest members — companies like Facebook, Google and Amazon — increasingly bump heads…
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Ikea Symfonisk speaker and other things that caught my eye this week
A great YouTube teardown of the Ikea Symfonisk bookshelf speaker. The speaker works with a Sonos equipped home and was designed in conjunction with Sonos. The Symfonisk bookshelf speaker is part of a range. They’re built for convenience rather than high fidelity. Don’t expect it to last long after its warranty is over. The Sonos…
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2020 media diary
I was inspired to write a 2020 media diary after re-reading a post that I had contributed to Stephen Waddington’s blog back in 2015 that looked at my online and offline media consumption. Prior to COVID; it wouldn’t have changed that much from the 2015 variant. In fact in 2020, a lot is still the…
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Things that caught my eye this week
House music producer Roy Davis Jr put together an amazing mix for Phonica Records and I have been vibing off it for most of the week. An old, but good music video put together by my long time colleague Haruka. It’s a mix of found footage and painting done on 16mm film. I’m not so…
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T Factory + more stuff
Korea’s Largest Telecom has Partnered with Apple, Microsoft & Samsung in new kind of High-End Retail store called T Factory – Patently Apple – interesting tech department story T Factory by SK Telecom. T Factory seems to be much more ambitious than Hong Kong’s 1010 mobile carrier shops Ex-Morgan Stanley bankers make a splash in…