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August 09, 2007

Link for the first bit of August

Rashmi Sinha helps us with planning and packing for a roadtrip
Boxes? bags? How to label for best access  and using Information Architecture best practice. Interesting as I'm often wondering how 'online' skills might be deployed 'offline'. Like this... It's an old link on Human Factors on Rashmi Sinha's blog - check July 12 2002!

It is only a matter of time until nearly all advertisements around the world are digital.
Or so says David W. Kenny, the chairman and chief executive of Digitas, the advertising agency in Boston that was acquired by the Publicis Groupe.

The plan is to build a global digital ad network that uses offshore labor to create thousands of versions of ads. Then, using data about consumers and computer algorithms, the network will decide which advertising message to show at which moment to every person who turns on a computer, cellphone or - eventually - a television...

The Penguin that sold it's soul to a Mouse.
What with the release of the kids movie Surf's Up - following up on last year's awesome Happy Feet... Penguin seems to be the animal 'du jour'. So I'm happy to see that kiddy soc net site Club Penguin has sold it's soul to Disney. Now if had sold to Pixar, that might be interesting but heck we haven't even visited Disneyland so far and there's clearly life in the old mouse yet...

Awesome - how do they do that - shame it's only for PC - moment
mixalbum.com - an interesting new 'service' to benefit from that bloke off Dragon's Den (Ideas as social commentary / currency) Try before you buy (yippee!) but it only works with .wmv files and PC, or something like that. Shame. As a mac user, I'm clearly in the minority. Mind you when Apple releases a rev of iTunes that mixes and blends tracks perfectly... Can't wait for some tasty Rotterdam industrial nonsense beat mixing perfectly into vintage Simonelli.


August 02, 2007

Links for the last bit of July.

As an experiment, I'm going with the short links approach to posting. So here goes...

iPhone product and AT&T service mess-up.
Good service ecology example of poor integration of front of house experience and back of house systems, cool product promise and dreadful service delivery.

Germs are in the details
From Steve Portigal's excellent and observant All this Chittah Chattah blog - this is an insightful look at simple but useful innovation ideas and how well they're implemented. This wonderful example - hand wipes for shopping carts and the contagious deconstruction of photographic evidence from the field.

Product and Service innovation (or not) amongst US cellphone carriers.
Another from NY Times' tech journo, David Pogue. Interesting with all the talk around the iPhone and what the other poor handset manufacturers and service providers are going to do in response. Get a decent people-centred innovation strategy say I.

Future of Mobile
Hurry hurry for tickets to November's mobile conference. I'll be looking out for Future Platform's Tom Hume and Daniel Appelquist from Vodafone - both of Mobile Monday fame and both of who I hope to speak more user and less tech ;-)

Ten reasons to throw away your cellphone
More anti cellphone tech advancement business from Wired magazine. 'Hell is other people's ringtones'.

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