Month: March 2011
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Desert Island Discs
A while ago my friend Ian Wood did a kind of desert island discs meme asking friends on Facebook what six tracks were the soundtracks to their lives. Here were mine. What would be in your Desert Island Discs? Jim Reeves – Senor Santa Claus – My Dad was a Jim Reeves fan and Christmas…
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Nintendo + more news
Nintendo Nintendo’s Satoru Iwata Promotes Game Consoles Over Smartphones – NYTimes.com – The president of Nintendo told video game developers Wednesday that smartphones were driving a trend toward lower quality, and economically unsustainable, video games. – So much to unpack in this Nintendo speech. Mobile gaming is about more accessible gaming, filling in shorter slots…
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Amoy online marketing
Amoy Asianate yourself application on Facebook For those of you who haven’t seen it Amoy, a Hong Kong-based company who sells Asian cooking product put an ‘Asianate’ yourself application on Facebook. Quite frankly, I was surprised by the creative. I might have expected it from a mainland brand. But Hong Kong is cosmopolitan enough to…
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Ron Conway + more news
Ron Conway Ron Conway’s Confidential Investment “Megatrend” — “O2O Commerce” – for those of you who don’t know Ron Conway is a Silicon Valley angel investor who is hyper-connected and said to have the golden touch. Online to offline (O2O) commerce has been big in Asia where QRcodes provided the connective tissue between apps and…