Month: May 2008

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    Everything Is Interesting

    Funny – whenever I hear people talking about Google's 20 percent time policy the focus is always on the time (it is after all, 20% of someone's time – one day a week to work on whatever company-related project they like –

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    The Cloud

    Boy the world is changing fast. A couple of months ago I wrote about distributed computing models (so called Cloud Computing). Amazon are very serious about it, and at the beginning of the month Google and IBM announced a partnership to deliver

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    The Unbundling of Advertising

    I'm constantly reminded of the similarities in the challenges faced by the music industry and the communications industry. Both are in transformation, both are learning that it's not about trying to dictate the customer experience, both are looking for new ways to

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    Free Range

    I've been having a bit of healthy discussion over here about whether businesses should embrace the new culture of openness or whether, to quote David "opening up a network only makes sense for the losers, not the winners," and instead "it is

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    Hitch Me

    There seems to be a number of marketing-related blog rankings around but this one, run by search and content agency Junta 42, has a unique kind of positioning in that it focuses on 'content marketing' and has a neat capability where visitors

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    Sometimes Easy To Forget

    "Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful." Albert Schweitzer

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    Leaving Home

    This made me laugh out loud on a Friday morning. A trailer for the award winning short film Goodbye To The Normals (warning to the sensitive: contains a little bad language): Brilliant Via

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    Twistori

    Twistori is a Twitter application inspired by wefeelfine that allows people to follow Twitter updates focused around some particular words: Love, Hate, Think, Believe, Feel and Wish. Like the Digg Labs Swarm, Stack, Big Spy and the more recent pics applications that

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