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Here’s a wonderful example of grass roots viral marketing, or is it? when you have a need to get as large an audience or following as possible… Start by (and the is the hardest part of all) with an original idea, something remarkable then make it easy for users to pass on links of your […]
Continue ReadingIt’s been a while since I’ve sat down to write anything about branding so I thought I’d dip my toe into it again and start with a short rule of three that successful brands follow. Attractive: Your customers need a reason, a desire to engage with you. To be drawn in by your brand story […]
Continue ReadingOK I admit it’s nothing groundbreaking, but I just threw up a new Blog Icon website using Rapidweaver, took about 3hrs to knock up, most of which time was compiling the emails and comments I’d had from users that are using the blog icon. in case you have no idea what I’m on about, there […]
Continue ReadingAlthough it’s about a year old, I just stumbled across this advert… Ground Crew, Pilots, Air Hostesses, body paint, need I say more? Let’s just that Air New Zealand are being upfront about themselves Plus the inflight safety video Mind you, Cebu Pacific have a novel way of keeping your attention during the safety video
Continue ReadingJay sent me the link to this music video at the weekend assuming I’d like it, he was right, it’s wonderful, and 3 million other You Tube users think the same. Plus it would appear Pepsi were inspired by the idea for their Pepsi Refresh Project (One People) commercial “This music video was shot for […]
Continue ReadingI slept in a little this morning, I got up just after 10, well it is Sunday… while shuffling into my living room pre-coffee I noticed sitting in my bay window a bowl of petunias, I don’t recall seeing them before, but as I said, this was pre-coffee, so I could have been mistaken, so I […]
Continue ReadingI’ve mentioned iPhone lens kits and tripod mounts before, but this is so simple and such a great idea! plus it’s an amazing case study for Kickstarter The glif needed $10K to get started, they launched on kickstarter Oct 3rd, they’re currently at $66K and they’ve still 27 days to go! More info at The Glif […]
Continue ReadingDarren Murph from Engadget awarded the Guinness Book of Records title of Most Prolific Professional Blogger, having written 17,212 individual posts (since surpassed). He’s probably written more posts in the past two weeks, than I have in the past two years! more info here
Continue ReadingThe video says it all… available this month more info at AirJ
Continue Reading“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be” Lao Tzu
Continue ReadingAnyone can lead, it isn’t about having authority, it’s about gaining trust & respect through the correct behaviour Brendan Mitchell
Continue ReadingAlthough this has been on Youtube for over a year, I only stumbled across it this weekend, it’s incredible!!! Interview with Director Making of
Continue Reading“Asking the right questions, is more important than having all the answers” Brendan Mitchell Look for Questions
Continue ReadingHere’s a great presentation by Nigel Marsh given at TEDx Sydney in May, I recommend watching it, it’s only 10mins long, here’s a snippet “the small things matter… being more balanced doesn’t mean dramatic upheaval in your life… with the smallest investment in the right places, you can radically transform the quality of your life […]
Continue Reading“If a competitor is hell bent on pushing forwards when you’re content to sit still, don’t be surprised when they win” Brendan Mitchell
Continue ReadingFor years I’ve lived a double life. In the day I do my job, I ride the bus, Roll up my sleeves with the hoi polloi. But at night I live a life of exhilaration, Of missed heartbeats and adrenaline, And, if the truth be known, A life of dubious virtue. I won’t deny I’ve […]
Continue ReadingAt the Black Hat Security Conference, Lookout unveiled the App Genome Project, which is the largest mobile application dataset ever created. In an ongoing effort to map and study mobile applications, the App Genome Project was created to identify security threats in the wild and provide insight into how applications are accessing personal data, as […]
Continue ReadingToday I received an email from a friend saying how they are fed up with the continual way their line manager treats them, with little or no respect. I hear this time and time again from friends and colleagues… when will managers realise, if they change their attitude, show genuine leadership and stop being administrators, […]
Continue Reading“Avoid procrastination by doing something else” Brendan Mitchell
Continue ReadingThis updated map is based on this by XKCD Flowtown for more data visualisation
Continue ReadingIf I lived in LA, I probably wouldn’t have any teeth left as I’d be in this shop every single day! you can’t help but admire and be drawn to this guy as he explains how he’s made his passion his life… as he says “People say you’re here and work all the time… I […]
Continue Readingooops, I meant to post this a month ago, just found it sitting on my iPhone. Tonight I met an old friend / business partner I’ve not seen in over 14 years! I know crazy eh… but he still lives 7,000 miles away in Singapore, where we had our business. Anyway it got me thinking… […]
Continue ReadingThe sun has made an appearance again, so I’ve shifted the office to my garden today… you gotta love WiFi
Continue ReadingNo I’m not talking about the 80’s Norwegian boy band I just stumbled across Aha Moment a website full of short videos of people decribing their Aha Moment. One that struck a cord with me was Siobhan Neilland’s Aha Moment… “My aha moment happened two and a half years ago, when I lost a baby […]
Continue ReadingI love data visualisation, in fact I was given a wonderful book entitled “Information is Beautiful” by David McCandleless as a present a few days ago… anyway I just stumbled across this on Mashable The video shows the mood in the U.S., as inferred using over 300 million tweets, over the course of the day. […]
Continue ReadingIn an update to the post I made a couple of weeks ago about attaching 35mm lenses to the iPhone 4, the guys at Vid Atlantic have adapted their EnCinema 35mm Adapter to fit to Owle Bubo Video shot with a Canon EF 50mm f1.8 DSLR lens on the EnCinema 35mm Adapter attached to the […]
Continue ReadingHow did I miss this little gem, if you bought Apple’s bluetooth Magic Mouse, then realised it didn’t have as much functionality of the wired USB Mighty Mouse, fear not, as MagicPrefs is here to save the day! (and yes I agree, they are ridiculously named products!)
Continue ReadingI can’t remember how I stumbled across a presentation entitled It’s an Illusion by John Harris a couple of months ago, but I’m very glad I did, as it was a real eye opener. It’s 50mins long in total, but it’s time well invested I assure you. It’s an Illusion on BBC5.tv or YouTube “John Harris gives […]
Continue ReadingI’ve been using Airfoil by Rogue Amoeba for years to pump audio from my Mac to my Airport Express… but I hadn’t realised they’d created a FREE app named Airfoil Speakers, that turns your iPhone/iPod/iPad or any Mac or PC on your WIFI network into a wireless audio receiver. That’s saved me buying another airport […]
Continue ReadingI have to admit that I do have several iPods and iPhones laying around here that I’m not really using, but not this many! We Like Small
Continue ReadingLast Year I posted about the Volkswagon campaign named The Fun Theory, I just read on Digital Buzz that the campaign has since gone on to win the Cannes Cyber Grand Prix for a digitally led integrated campaign, which it won along side Nike’s “Chalk Bot” who took the award for the other digital solutions / […]
Continue ReadingI enjoy Seth’s blog, it’s predominately insightful and often inspirational… I receive it via email every morning, although I’ve still got over 200 of them that I’ve not read! but regardless of that I’d still recommend you read his blog. Anyway I stumbled across one of his recent entries this morning and it reminded me […]
Continue ReadingKeeping with the iPhone theme, I noticed on a friend’s Facebook page this morning a ridiculous looking iPhone lens modification (which unfortunately wouldn’t really work that well with a 35mm lens, due to the tiny size of the sensor in the iPhone, unless you wanted a super zoom lens that is)… although this looks weird […]
Continue ReadingThis is pretty amazing when you think it was shot entirely on an iPhone!?!?! An extract from Marty Martin’s Vimeo page “In an effort to release the first iPhone 4 music video, my good friend and musician Steve Failows [AKA flakjakt] and I collaborated over a period of less than a week to create the […]
Continue Reading18 months ago I posted a blog about a small red plant that miraculously came back from the dead after I’d given up on it and thrown it away. Since then it’s gone from strength to strength, I’ve even split it into 5 plant pots, as it was growing so fast! I’m at a cross […]
Continue ReadingOK I have to admit that I’m unlikely to listen to the entire album without going insane, but the idea is wonderful… the CD maybe dead, but long live the CD case! more info Tristan Perich to purchase click here
Continue ReadingOver the weekend I installed the Developers version of iPhone OS 4 (one advantage of being an iPhone Developer), and I must say the multi-tasking is great, although unfortunately several of the apps I’d like to use and test it with haven’t released compatible updates yet… but regardless of that the I’ve found OS 4 […]
Continue ReadingNeed to see a shrink? Why not let this guy see if he can help, by asking you 4 simple questions, to reveal what type you are? http://pentagram.com/what-type-are-you/
Continue ReadingHere’s a video of World champion freediver Guillaume Nery special dive at Dean’s Blue Hole, the deepest blue hole in the world filmed entirely on breath hold by the french champion Julie Gautier. This video is a FICTION and an ARTISTIC PROJECT. Edited by BLUENERY (c). Music: ARCHIVE – you make me feel
Continue ReadingAt last, porn you can touch, this changes everything 😉 freedom from porn
Continue ReadingI got a nice surprise an hour ago… my shiny new iPad arrived, woohoo! All I have to do now, is work out why I bought it 🙂
Continue ReadingAs Adobe & Apple slug it out over the Flash plug, arguing who is more “Open” I stumbled across something today that made me smile. A week ago Adobe placed Ad’s in the broadsheets in the US saying they Love Apple, and that they love choice… but I really smiled when someone, somewhere out there […]
Continue ReadingOn Friday I downloaded a wonderful app for my iPhone named Hipstamatic… in essence you now have a Lomographic camera on your iPhone. The array of films, effects and lenses you can add are excellent. The whole interface and user experience has been beautifully thought through and is a joy to use. The app is […]
Continue ReadingLast September, when nearly all the world’s leaders were in New York for a meeting of the United Nations, Avedon Platon, a staff photographer for The New Yorker set up a tiny studio off the floor of the General Assembly, and tried to hustle as many of them in front of his lens as possible. For […]
Continue ReadingDon’t get my wrong, I have nothing against facebook, in fact I think it’s great… but this whole privacy fiasco is becoming a PR nightmare! A couple of days ago I stumbled across reclaimprivacy.org a fantastic little javascript, that safely scans your privacy settings and warns you of any problems. But taking a completely different […]
Continue ReadingSometimes too much choice is a bad thing… Facebook’s privacy settings have more options than ordering a coffee in Starbucks! To see what I mean follow this link to the NY Times
Continue ReadingI’d not heard of Judit and Judit before, but they appear to be a couple of comediennes from Sweden, anyway their parody of YouTube greats is brilliant
Continue ReadingIf you’ve just eaten, or have a weak stomach, then please don’t watch this! This went out on live TV, what’s amazing is how she sits back down looking wonderful and carries on almost as if nothing happened!
Continue ReadingAnyone that’s in magazine or print design and isn’t looking seriously at the iPad and eBooks is on very dangerous ground… it’s time to wake up and smell the coffee Magazines of Tomorrow
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