Month: April 2014
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My digital tool box
There are new useful sites springing up all the time so this is just a snapshot of the things that I use as my digital tool box: Service/category Description Digital tool box for analysis / measurement Domain Tools Paid for service site with some great free features including DNS look-up and the SEO browser, which…
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Luxury assets + other news
Luxury assets Super rich get to cash in on luxury assets | CityAM – interesting move putting luxury assets as a financial instrument basically. The luxury assets mirror similar secondary markets in street wear. Some luxury assets make sense like rare watches or fine art. It also probably says something about the values of stocks,…
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Morality + other news
Morality One in 10 Brits admits to lying pretty much all the time | Quartz – great PR story. How else do you build an empire over a third of the world by guile and a selective approach to morality? The UK tried to establish a common morality with the Empire as mother and the…
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Green Tomato App demo
Green Tomato is a Hong Kong based innovation consultancy founded in 2003. They specialise in developing mobile enterprise solutions and creation of great mobile apps that have won awards. Green Tomato is a winner of several technology and marketing awards including Asia Pacific ICT Alliance Grand Award winner and Red Herring Global 100. Green Tomato…
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Glocal
Glocal is shorthand for the maxim ‘Think global, act local’. This used to be a mantra for international marketers, but in a world of social media this springs up a myriad of complexities. Some of them good, some of them bad, particularly when global platforms filter foreign feedback into the home market. Or foreign campaigns…
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Google Glass device
I’ve blogged a few times before about the merits and flaws in the current iterations of the Google Glass device. I consider the Google Glass device to be an interesting idea; because of the potential contextual nature of its content provision; but the product is flawed and ultimately a failure in the consumer space due…
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The Raid 2
Coming back to the UK reminded me of how much Hong Kong is a cinema-centric culture despite the technology, mobile devices and amazing restaurants. Going to the cinema there was literally half the price of London, which means that I am much more critical of the entertainment shown. The first film I have seen that…
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Big life moments & digital
I spent much of January in Shenzhen and went to a concert played by a local band. I can’t remember much about their music save that the lead singer work a bowler hat and seemed to influenced by 1990s Brit Pop and A Clockwork Orange. What was remarkable about the gig was that for the…
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Hand scanning + more news
Hand scanning Swedish city introduces payment by hand scanning – The West Australian – having your biometrics such hand scanning to be used as authentication; I am sure that there ethical issues with this. You can change a password, but you can’t change your biometrics. Fujitsu have had an ATM up and running that reads the…