Google Android and the Mobile Internet

I consider myself competent when it comes to navigating the internet. But mobile phones and the mobile web are alien to me.
This may soon change.
My current contract expires early next year. Previously, I have been happy with my low-price/basic-handset tariff. But the one-two punch of the iPhone and G1 is winning me over. A near-full [...]

Links – 25th September 2008

Blog-related
Fantastic presentation on the music industry embracing the Web (Fistfulayen)
A White Paper outlining a pre-testing model based on prediction markets (Misentropy) – I’ve not yet read this, but it looks fascinating
Can modern brands be built with traditional people, asks Adrian at Zeus Jones? A very nice, thought-provoking presentation
Why the product outweighs the promotion (Make Marketing [...]

We Need to Change: Presentation on Market Research

Helge Tennø has created several visually arresting and thought provoking presentation decks and the latest is no exception.
We Need to Change is – in his words – a loosely structured collection of thoughts and references regarding the mediocre but promising state of market research

(RSS readers may need to click through)
I like the general thrust of [...]

Links – 19th September 2008

My unread items in Google Reader has been maxed out at 1000+ for a few days now, but here is a brief list of the stuff I HAVE managed to read in the past week
A fantastic overview on how to have a successful career in advertising (Digicynic). Recommended reading as many of the tips are [...]

When did we start trusting strangers?

Following on from their (very useful) Social Media tracker, Universal McCann have released some follow up research entitled When did we start trusting strangers?

(RSS Readers – you may have to click through to see the slideshare presentation)
It explores the influence that we wield online, and how consumer generated content – whether blogs, reviews or comments [...]

The internet lasts forever*

* Well, unless the Internet Archive and the mirror at the Library of Alexandria both melt down.
I’ve been crazy busy the last week, hence the lack of real updates. So, a quick observation and a couple of jumbled thoughts to keep things ticking over here (as you may tell from my archive, I fall more [...]

Links – 12th September 2008

Part 2 of my overdue link update:
Blog-related:
Media history through Gartner Hype Cycle graphs – an ingenious way of tracking trends over time (Adverlab)
This interesting conversation looks at the importance of being aware and how “supernoticing” improves user research (AIGA)
The six degrees of Kevin Bacon has been condensed to three degrees of Wikipedia
A study indicates that [...]

Links – September 11th 2008

I ended up missing the link update last week, so I’ll split the two weeks up into two manageable (hopefully) chunks
Blog-related
An article in the New York Times argues that there is not yet a formula of success for online TV series (Will there ever be? It’s not like all broadcast shows are hits). While Claire [...]

REM remind me that good presentation improves good content

Photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/hidden_shine/
This time last year I had never been to a stadium. In the last two months I have been to three. Shea and Wembley for sport, and Twickenham for music.
Each experience has been very different. At Shea, I was the tourist absorbing myself into a strange, foreign game. At Wembley I was the [...]

Winners of the 2008 Slideshare Presentation Contest

To combat the cynicism of my previous post on bad research, let me congratulate the authors of the three fantastic presentations below.
They show that irrespective of whether the message is serious or whimsical, it is possible to truly engage an audience via PowerPoint/Keynote through thoughtful and creative design.

For additional category winners and honourable mentions, go [...]