Category: china | 中國 | 중국 | 中華
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The QRcode post
A few years ago, I was involved in a project that used a QRcode across OOH (out of home) activity for a retail launch. We had it on advertising hoardings and on the back of public transport. QRcode scanners varied in performance. In addition you had to think about: Contrast – did the code stand…
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Fallacies and more things
Departing the wheat from the chaff: identifying fallacies in the pharmaceutical promotion – Shaughnessy, Slawson & Bennett – different logical fallacies deployed in promotional activities (PDF) Why Armstrong Really Wanted Yahoo — The Information – interesting play but not sure that it will be successful (paywall) Money as Message – Andreessen Horowitz – Connie Chan’s 101 on WeChat…
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Android to iPhone & more
Daring Fireball | U.S. Army Special Operations Switching From Android To iPhone – interesting comments on OS stability, from Android to iPhone, more on security related stories here. Digibarn Stories: Rob Barnaby and WordStar and much more (June 2008) – Barnaby’s ability to code in assembly was legendary – seems especially insane now when languages like Swift are…
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Nice & other things
Nice Nice murder-by-truck incident – My social media feed filled up with poor ad placements against news about the Nice murder-by-truck incident. Sesame Street’s handling of the event on the social media accounts was a paragon of how these things should be done on Twitter and YouTube The world needs your kindness today. Go out…
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Native materials + more news
As Tastes Mature, Chinese Crave Native Materials | Global Currents | BoF – also mirrors a desire to look less flashy and moving away from tu hao jin products. Native materials also reflect a growing pride in China and what it means to be Chinese Photographer Bill Cunningham left the fashion world some brilliant advice on…
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WWDC 2016 – what did it all mean?
I watched the few hours of keynotes at Apple’s WWDC 2016 (Worldwide Developers Conference). I also read some of the resulting analysis and wondered if we’d been watching the same event. So thought I would think about the event carefully and come up on my take of what it all meant. This is a bit…
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Divorce talks + more
Britain, EU at odds over timing of divorce talks – The Boston Globe – The markers of European decline are not hard to find. For the first time in modern history, Asia has more private wealth than Europe, the Boston Consulting Group said last year. And China will account for 70 percent of Asia’s growth between now…
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TAG Heuer + more things
TAG Heuer Pushing Brand in China, as Rivals Scale Back | Business of Fashion – it makes sense given the lower price point of TAG Heuer watches. TAG Heuer is in an interesting place. Due to the government clampdown on corruption, the market for ostentatious watches has been curtailed for the time being. You could dispute whether…
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Wednesday Campanella
Haruka introduced me to WEDNESDAY CAMPANELLA『桃太郎』 The videos are pretty far out but draw on Asian culture, hence peaches. More on Japan related topics here. The song writing is absolutely top notch as well. Well worth keeping an eye on WEDNESDAY CAMPANELLA for the future. There’s more to Japan than idol groups than the identikit…