Month: November 2014
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
Here are my favourite links from this week curated by the brand new Fraggl: I really liked Flic - the wireless smart button (above). It's currently busting through it's funding target on Indiegogo. Meanwhile over on Kickstarter: Hashkey is the dedicated one key keyboard for the hashtag Fantastically useful – an excellent series of free Stanford lectures on 'How to Start a Startup' A smart…
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Google Firestarters Comes to New York
I'm really excited to announce that Google Firestarters is coming to America. We've been running Firestarters events for over three years in the UK, bringing planners, strategists and the inquisitive, restless and disruptive minds of advertising and media together to discuss and debate the most interesting and challenging issues facing our industry. Over that time they've…
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Fraggl 2.0: A New Design, and a New Algorithm
A year ago we launched the first version of Fraggl to our Alpha testing group. Since then, working with the smart folk at AdaptiveLab, we have made a number of improvements to the service, run a couple of experiments, and our list of subscribers has grown well beyond our expectations. Over that time we've delivered millions of…
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
THE GAP by Ira Glass from Daniel Sax on Vimeo. This week our pioneers test group have been getting our newly revamped Fraggl 2.0 emails with changes made to the algorithm, design and formatting (more on that soon). We've had lots of positive feedback on it (thank you pioneer group) so with a few tweaks we'll…
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The Thin Internet
A while back I wrote a post about distributed and destination thinking as a way of framing not just an approach to content but also a more ‘digitally-native’ way of looking at the world. Distributed thinking relates to content and interaction that lives out there, away from your domain, in the stream, so your job…
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Peter Thiel on Company Culture
"'Company culture' doesn’t exist apart from the company itself: no company has a culture; every company is a culture." In Zero to One, Thiel frequently talks about company culture in the context of people – which is of-course as it should be. He talks about how critical recruiting is for any organisation ('Recruiting is a…
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Google Firestarters 14 – Big Data, or Big Mistake? – The Event
Thursday night saw the great and the good, the interesting and interested, of UK planning come together for the 14th Google Firestarters on the theme of big data. Tim Harford, the renowned author, broadcaster and FT columnist, split his provocations into two TED style twenty minute talks (with discussion and questions in between) – one…
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
This week we have put our next generation Fraggl algorithm and email live to our pioneers test group. If you're a Fraggl pioneer, please let us have your feedback. In the meantime, here's my favourite links, curated by Fraggl: A good deck here from Clay Parker Jones on why organisations are broken, and how to fix them Some great…
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Zero to One
"Every moment in business happens only once. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. And the next Mark Zuckerberg won’t create a social network. If you are copying these guys, you aren’t learning from them. Of course, it’s easier to…
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
Here's my favourite links, curated by Fraggl: A great satire on real-time marketing (above) from Canadian Agency John St A thought-provoking McKinsey take on rethinking the role of the strategist. And there was also James Caig's inspiring thoughts on what makes a strategist Some good thoughts here on designing for large screen phones Well that's good to know - it’s a fact that the world is…