Month: January 2008
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Skypephone Confession
I have a confession to make. Late last year I was asked to trial the new Skype phone as part of a blogger outreach programme and I agreed, partly because I love the whole concept of Skype and partly because I thought […]
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Web Trend Map 2008
Like last years, only bigger and better (and updated): My how things have moved on. Click on the image to enlarge it. Clickable online version here Big A3 PDF here Thanks to Information Architects in Japan
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The Greatest Natural Resource
You Tube have been hosting a channel for video content from the World Economic Forum in Davos ("This year, you get to join them"). Amongst the videos of the sessions, is a fascinating little project called "The Davos Question". The question in […]
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On Brand Utility
Image courtesy I like this from Zeus Jones: "To me, marketing as a service is an operating philosophy – not a deliverable. It’s a school of thought around how business success and customer care/acquisition can be achieved. One shouldn’t deliver branded utility […]
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Samaritans – Vectorscope
Beautiful, this new ad from Lunar BBDO for The Samaritans. As they say on their blog: "People call Samaritans for hundreds of reasons that range from exam pressure to suicide, so representing those states of mind without being off-putting is a tricky […]
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The Leaders of the Future
Image courtesy Like Russell, I’ve made it my mission this year to widen the scope of presentations I choose to see and pay to see. I want to hear some new perspectives and have some new input. So in keeping with this […]
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Memes Like Buses
Image courtesy No memes for a month and then I get tagged on two on the same day. Just like buses. So I thought I’d aggregate my response here in one post for the sake of interest and brevity. First up, Asi […]
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A New Way To Be Good?
Image courtesyI heard on the radio this morning that today was apparently meant to be the most depressing day of the year (happily I’m not feeling it). So in trying to think about more uplifting subjects, I read about the strategic launch […]
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The Bionic Contact Lense
University of Washington researchers have just managed to embed LED’s and an electronic circuit board into contact lenses. Quite an acheivement given the size of the components involved and the need to marry inflexible metallic elements with the flexible organic matter of […]