Month: November 2017
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Gig work + more news
WSJ City | Gig work may stifle some startups – a gig work firm’s entry into a given area caused a decline in the number of unfunded and underfunded Kickstarter campaigns launched locally a year later Ctrip launches global rebrand to Trip.com – interesting staking out global ambitions against Agoda, Booking.com and Expedia Google Translate:…
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The media of me
Wadds came up with 13 theses about the media of me with more than a nod and a wink to The Cluetrain Manifesto. The main thrust of it is that the media model is broken, technology has a lot of the blame at its door. Picking through it are some worthy aspirations, but it was…
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Hyphbot + other news
HyphBot How Adform discovered HyphBot – one of the largest botnets to ever hit digital advertising. The full HyphBot impact on all Adform’s platforms was extremely limited, costing less than $1,000 USD per month, the impact of HyphBot may have more extensive on other online advertising platforms (PDF) Consumer behaviour Have we reached peak smartphone?…
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Kindle – tenth anniversary
I was blown away when I realised that it was the tenth anniversary of the the Amazon Kindle. Ten years, think about that for a moment. If you look at the original Kindle versus the latest model you can see how the design language moved from a ‘BlackBerry’ type product design to a smartphone type…
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10th anniversary of the Kindle + more news
Amazon marks 10th anniversary of the Kindle, the ’18-month project’ that took 3 1/2 years – Kessel said the team was determined to keep the Kindle a single-purpose device – something where you could lose yourself in a book, rather than a multipurpose piece of hardware that might create distractions. They were also focused on making it…
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Tencent Ad Hub + more news
Tencent Ad ‘Hub’ Connects Brands And Chinese Consumers | The Holmes Report – interesting that they have created a hub for this, the data implications and opportunities are huge. Tencent Ad Hub builds on the huge data set that Tencent already has with WeChat Energy Amid global electric-car buzz, Toyota bullish on hydrogen – not surprising to…
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Plaxo closing down +other things
Plaxo closing down I don’t know if I hadn’t been paying attention or if it hadn’t been put out there in the media about Plaxo closing down. Prior to Plaxo closing down, it provided a valuable service by syncing your address book to people’s profile cards which they changed if they moved jobs, changed their…
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Sony Walkman WM-R202 – throwback gadget
I got a Sony Walkman WM-R202 and loved it, though it was only for a short while. It was delicate and fragile, or I had a lemon; but it was the kind of device that stuck with me and made sense for me to profile as an iconic throwback gadget. Back when I started work…
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TV synced online ads & other news
TV synced online advertising TV synced Facebook News Feed ads yield 60% lift | Facebook Marketing Partners – TV synced advertising seems to have a similar effect to TV synced radio campaigns (PDF) Culture Hip-hop is getting old, man | Quartz – interesting discussion on cultural cycles. Soothsayer in the Hills Sees Silicon Valley’s Sinister…