Month: March 2007
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Boo 2.0
My stalker from boo.com has paid me another visit. ‘insider@boo.com’ has just left another comment for me on the last boo post: "It won’t be fashion but will still be fashionable.It will still have an offer for each season.You’ll still be able to shop for the cool and trendy. It sure is tailor made…" Sounding…
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Pizza anyone?
Rather like this. From Saatchi and Saatchi Brazil. Via.
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What every planner wants (2)
Hot on the heels of the launch of Apple TV comes these. Like everything else Apple do, don’t these just look sooo sexy compared to what you’ve got right now?
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Every cover tells a story
Inspired by reading Steve Taylor’s book on 100 Years of Magazine Covers, I have dug out the link for a project the American Society of Magazine Editors ran not so long ago to pick the most iconic covers of the past 40 years. Everyone one of them tells a story…I’ve picked one from each decade…
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Blogging yolk
This is my 100th post, so I thought I should mark the occasion with a few observations about this blogging lark. I promised myself I wouldn’t turn this into another of those ‘why I love blogging’ essays, so I have concentrated on what for me is the essence of its value – the really nutritious…
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Thought for the day
A thought on the new age of connectivity from American stand-up Mitch Hedberg: "I don’t own a cell phone or a pager. I just hang around everyone I know, all the time. If someone wants to get a hold of me, they just say ‘Mitch,’ and I say ‘what?’ and turn my head slightly" Thanks…
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Mini Rock ‘n Roll
Nice print ads from BBDO Milan with the Mini referencing 3 famous rock bands. Took me a while to get the second one but I’m not feeling that sharp today… (Via) .Also worth checking out is the Mini roof designer facility (in partnership with 3M) on the Mini Italia site. Couldn’t find this on the…
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Everything you ever wanted to know about women
We are about to undertake a major research project into women (it’s a huge audience for us). We are just formulating our ideas for what the issues/areas are that we are potentially going to investigate – so in the spirit of open source I thought I would open it out to you guys for input.…
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Am I missing something?
‘Digital magazines’ like Monkey and the recently launched Jellyfish – I just don’t get it. Using your mouse to ‘turn the pages’ in a digital facsimile of an offline format may be a neat way of sampling an offline magazine online (in fact we’ve used the same technology for exactly this) but as a consumer…
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Best of British
Not all great web 2.0 start-ups eminate from California. Techscape have just posted a list of ‘interesting’ and ‘sparky’ start-ups whose common thread is that they are based in and originated out of old blighty. These are my edited highlights (for the full list go here) 1. Sleevenotez This clever site puts real-time content (wikipedia…