I won’t waste time adding to the overwhelming volume of Steve Jobs eulogies other than to suggest the best things I have read so far are the reprints appearing in the New Yorker (See Galdwell’s Creation Myth) and the Rolling Stone (See The 1994 interview with Jobs). With Steve Jobs officially calling it a day it seems like… [Read more…]
August 23, 2011
I was reading Edward Bouche’s Five things agencies need to get good at over the weekend and I couldn’t help but think that his five point plan of “innovate, innovate, innovate”, speed and agility, customer engagement, attract the best talent and “give GenY the opportunity to change you” mirrors the ideas being touted by the Tech Start-Up… [Read more…]
August 21, 2011
“We are living in an increasingly post-idea world, a world … [where] Bold ideas are almost passé.” – Neal Gabler The Elusive Big Idea The New York Times. Yep I’m a week late on taking a look at this one and I think Neiman Labs have probably already nailed the qualified response (i.e. “the essay’s wrong, actually, in an interesting… [Read more…]
August 20, 2011
Probably the big So.Me story of the week was GigaOm’s infographic declaring that 83% of Google+ users are inactive. This generated a lot of debate about are we seeing Google+ Fatigue where perhaps the real discussion should have been about how Google+ compares to the other networks. As we discovered earlier in the week Jakob Nielsen’s… [Read more…]
August 16, 2011
I’ve always been a big admirer of Jakob Nielsen’s writings on the subject of UX Design (e.g. Banner Blindness and the use of Eye Tracking in UI design). (see FLINK and they’re gone!) Earlier today I stumbled across this 1997 study he conducted of the Sun Newspaper’s online traffic from July 1996. Here I discovered in the post… [Read more…]
August 16, 2011
On the day that Google makes its next play in the mobile handset market and transforms itself into Googlerola through the purchase Motorola there is much to speculate and comment on. Acquiring IP, the future of Android, adding more pieces to the Google jigsaw and who’s next appear to be the main themes of the discussion. As yet no op:ed… [Read more…]
August 14, 2011
Bronwen Katsaros from 9 Muses has asked a simple question stemming from my last post on Glissification and its discontents: Game in gamification, but what is gliss? Glisse(Dance)/Glissade(mountaineering)/Glissant(Music) all have their root in the idea of sliding. So Glissification simply encapsulates the idea of how the old ways of doing business are slip sliding away and being… [Read more…]
August 14, 2011
You only have to take a quick look at that Top 20 most expensive adwords infographic that was published last month by Wordstream to see that the most active market on the Google web is Bancassurance. Banking and Insurance products make us 4 of the top 5 key words with a CPC bid range between $54.91 to $36.06… [Read more…]
August 14, 2011
The explosion in UX and Information design roles across the digital media industry is perhaps as good a gauge of any of the relative maturity of the industry tracking against the available technology. So far I have encountered 4 distinct ages of MobCon user design. The first age was that of the user interface designer (UI). Better… [Read more…]
August 13, 2011
It is the advertising industry worst kept secret that young males between the age of 18-24 are the hardest demographic for brands to engage with. This is why for many in the industry Social Networking held so much promise. A chance to engage with a media savvy and ad literate generation of young men hanging out… [Read more…]
August 28, 2011
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