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Category: Marketing & Advertising

  • SocialMediaCamp London 09: A Few Lessons Learned

    New mothers apparently say that after they hold their newborn in their arms, they forget almost all the pain of the laborious process (literally!) that preceded. I think this week, I can see what they mean. On Saturday, April 25th,…

  • Browsing the Mobile Web: Anyone Out There?

    Earlier this week, I published a post on the Taptu blog looking at the challenges of creating and selling mobile applications outside of the iPhone bubble, in particular at how developer Jan Ole Suhr released a Twitter client for S60,…

  • Thmbnls: The Government is Screwing with Your Money (Again)

    I had to resist the urge to use the first post name that came to mind for this one, or it simply would have been “What the f*ck is the government thinking?” But then that would have been too vague,…

  • Heading to Texas next week for SXSWi

    I get the impression that a very large British contingent is heading to Austin, Texas for SXSW this year, based on the few conversations I’ve seen floating around Twitter. I’ll be amongst the masses, heading to my favourite event of…

  • Astroturfing & Disclosure: Where Do You Draw the Line?

    As more businesses start peppering their marketing plans with social media projects, activities that previously were reserved for the geeky early adopters are now coming under scrutiny when used for commercial endeavours. With all this new media growth, there’s no…

  • How Stephen Fry lost Britain hundreds of man-hours of work

    Around lunchtime today, Stephen Fry, national treasure and Twitter celeb, announced that to celebrate having 50,000 followers, he would hold a challenge: He adds “There’s the competition in a nutshell below. Star it for reference. The prize will be good…

  • Where creativity comes from

    It’s Friday, you’ve been giving it the beans all week, working that little brain of yours to the bone (figuratively, let’s hope). You need a boost for that last mile before this evening’s G&T while watching mindless TV (or maybe…

  • Future of Mobile 2008 Round-up

    The past few weeks have been very spotty in terms of blogging, with so much of my time being focused on getting stuck in to new projects and flirting with a few more potential ones. Yesterday, however, was an insightful…

  • Sushi & business have more in common than you might think

    A few months ago, we popped by Bluewater shopping centre in Kent to get my MacBook fixed and, being the total sushi addicts that we are, we couldn’t resist the detour by Yo Sushi when lunchtime rolled around. Even though…

  • Time to pick your favourite SXSW 2009 panels

    It’s barely been a few months since I’ve stopped clap-trapping on about how utterly awesome my first SXSW experience was, but yes, I’m already talking about the NEXT South by SouthWest. I realise it isn’t until March 2009 and that…