Here’s a great presentation from the Techno//Marketer himself, Matt Dickman. Definitely worth 40 minutes fo your time. A really well structured presentation with neat examples and good brain food to start the day. And here’s 8 future trends from Leo Burnett in London. Nice to hear a British voice too. And here’s another! This timeContinueContinue reading “future trends in advertising”
Category Archives: futurology
stuff and things 18.03.08
Diesel & Adidas bring you 83 ways to waste your time (via Damiano on Twitter) International web design and flash showcase Times article on how to make the most of a corporate blog with lots of links for examples and reports. Quaker Oats join the digital conversation Cyberpsychology and Behaviour research paper entitled “Distress, Coping,ContinueContinue reading “stuff and things 18.03.08”
stuff and things 27.09.07
Here’s a map of he DNS root servers globally. I didn’t realise that in 2002, an attack disabled 9 of the then 13 root name servers. And then in February 2007, 30,000 zombie PCs, traced to South Korea, battered the servers: affecting six, two badly. If all the servers were to be taken out,ContinueContinue reading “stuff and things 27.09.07”
digital evolution and daemons
MSN take a look at how the web is evolving including personal daemons. Which is a new term to me as a quick Google suggests it came from a Phillip Pullman novel. But they exist in other forms including the one in the article. Having taken the test on the Golden Compass movie link above,ContinueContinue reading “digital evolution and daemons”
stuff and things 28.08.07
Saw this in the cinema on my hols and laughed at an ad for the first time in ages. Enjoy the knitting nanas. If flux capacitors mean anyting to you you’ll know it’s 25 years since the gull wing Delorean came into our lives and Michael J Fox was the coolest kid in town. AndContinueContinue reading “stuff and things 28.08.07”
the future is flat | microsoft surface
This is awesome. Microsoft seem to finally be emerging as a technology innovator rather than just a grey box. This stuff could have a huge impact on how people interact with form and function. Source: Scobleizer onTwitter about 8hrs ago
bag full of accessories
I just read a Forrester report on how Sony & BT have teamed up for a project to make the PSP a true communications device. Intended to be targeted at the millenials (those born after 1980 and thus deprived of an education in Bowie) who will naturally gravitate from wireless gaming to using theContinueContinue reading “bag full of accessories”
a local finnish brand
Insightful interview from McKinsey with the SVP marketing of Nokia. You’ll need to register to get the full article but some food for thought, here’s his response to how media is changing Nokia’s marketing efforts. “The Internet is playing a much more important role than anyone ever imagined. Brands are going to be made andContinueContinue reading “a local finnish brand”
shifting times
Two interesting videos. First, how globalization is being fundamentally shifted and being enabled by technology. Second, a project from the Museum of Media History looking at Google domination: Epic
