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2015 predictions
It’s become a bit of an annual tradition on this blog for me to put together some guesswork on what is likely to be coming down the pipe over the next 12 months so here are my 2015 predictions. Business Sony Corp. cleans house with the management teams of its US businesses. One of Sony’s…
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2014 crystal ball gazing: how did I do?
2014 crystal ball gazing 2014 crystal ball gazing was a culmination of thinking that I have been doing on where digital is going. For the past few years I have been thinking about where digital is going and what it all means. At the end of last year here were my projections. I do realise…
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Ontheroof & things that made last week
Russian crew ontheroof took their skills to Hong Kong, hacking one of the city’s iconic electronic billboards mounted on the top of an unfeasibly tall building. Ontheroof have attracted sponsorship from large corporates despite the illegal nature of their work. They’ve worked with brands like Huawei and Canon cameras. Their risk profile would preclude many…
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Walmart + other things
Walmart online to offline retailing A really interesting video with Walmart that looks at the interface between online and offline retailing. Particularly interesting take on mobile payment form factors. Amazon presents an existential threat to the Walmart business. Walmart isn’t going down without a fight. It has innovated in the past on using technologies like…
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Yahoo corporate culture
I bumped into some former colleagues over the past couple of weeks and the experience reminded me of a lot of the items in this post. We shared a common bond based on our exposure to the Yahoo corporate culture. Given the circling activist investors surround the current iteration of Yahoo! this maybe a capsule…
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Nine years span + more news
Nine years span platform deal Reckitt Benckiser and Facebook announce partnership to get digitally closer to consumer – partnership over nine years. In the space of nine years Geocities went from vibrant community to graveyard. Over nine years MySpace relaunched twice – this agreement between RB and Facebook is a bet against disruptive innovation. That…
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Chopstick Brothers
The Chopstick Brothers are a comedy duo with a film out in Chinese cinemas called 老男孩之猛龙过江 (Old Boy The Way of The Dragon). In order to promote the film they released a single called 小苹果 (Little Apple). Little Apple is an annoyingly catchy melody with simple chords and its own dance designed to appeal to…
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Tangerine ten questions
If you don’t follow Tangerine NY’s blog, I would recommend that you do for the curated mix of zeitgeist and Tangerine ten questions interviews. The Tangerine ten questions: Where are you right now?What did you want to be when you were a child?How do you think we can keep talent motivated?What are you reading now?What…
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2014: just where is it all going?
You can read about how I got on last year here. This year’s aka 2014 predictions in no particular order: Amazon won’t do drone delivery in 2014 – The reasons for this are many. Drones are limited by payload, to ability to land, the amount of energy they can hold for flight time and piloting.…