We have sinned

A very cool article on the shortcomings of social media investment…
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The year of mobile, again

This feels out of date before I have started writing. Anyone who have been involved with Telco’s over the past few years will be familiar with the dogma that mobile companies have an enviable relationship with their customers – profitable, monthly and microbilling, an emotional connection by virtue or the indispensability of the service, shedloads [...]

Social tools and DIY, a personal account

Warning – this post is pretty technical…
For a while, I’ve been an experimenter of different social tools. Like many in our industry, I’ve bookmarked interesting articles read in a delicious account, I’ve tweeted occasionally, and I’ve got an RSS reader. But it all felt increasingly manual. I’ve recently decided to try to rationalise what I’m [...]

The rise of the netbook

Look away from some of the conventional battlefield of press and beta releases from Microsoft and Google, and there is evidence of a new force emerging in personal computing, which could change media consumption patterns in all sorts of unforeseen ways.

Netbooks represent the convergence of a number of different developements – the spread of wireless [...]

Twitter visualisations

This is great – colliding a sweet piece of visualisation I first came across in the NYT showing movie box office takings history, now you can look at the tweet history of any keyword: like all good infographics, you don’t need words to do much explaining

Bing/Wolfram Alpha PR Killer? Google reinvents email.

Google have jad a conference recently, called I/O. One of the products they showcased seeks to answer the question “What Might Email Look Like If It Were Invented Today?”. Not a question I’ve asked myself very often, but the guys behind Google Maps have been thinking about this for a while, and come up with [...]

The solar economy

Kevin Kelly, of Wired, has has solar panels installed. A business in the US subsidises the installation, discounts your electricity, and reduces your bills. The power you don’t use they sell back to the equvalent of the National Grid, and somehow the whole system supports itself. The solar company even maintains the panels for you. [...]