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 – imagine that). But important though the time element is, this probably misses the…
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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 massively scalable networked cloud services. Initiated by an informal call from Sam to…
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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 create value. Both are moving from models that leverage scarcity to a place…
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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 can vote for or 'hitch' their favourite blogs. Only Dead Fish has just…
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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