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Remember when mobile meant “on the go”? Mobile use cases always involved going somewhere.

The current global recession, which first started half a decade ago with the downfall of the banking industry in 2008, has seen businesses across the world face mounting challenges and a fair number have shut up shop. Many individuals are finding thems…

I’m not long out of giving a new talk this morning for the first time, at Squared in London to the bright young things who’re just starting out on a six week intensive learning experience.  It’s always a privilege to … Continue reading →

I’m a big fan of what Chris Thorpe is doing with The Flexiscale Company; scanning real life rare steam trains and their trucks, and creating scale models of demand through Shapeways. We has the measure of hearing him talk about … Continue reading →

What’s happened this week: Netflix announced a modest profit and growth to 29m US and 6m international streaming subscribers, illustrating that OTT video is beginning to scale. Twitter launched Vine, the 6 second video equivalent of a tweet. Facebook announced that conversion tracking via an optimized CPM will be available…

What’s happened this week: Facebook announced Graph Search, a new feature to search within the users’ Social Graph. Another development in the rise of the Interest Graph technologies that advertisers need to understand. A little less coverage went to another disruptive Facebook move to deliver free calls to US iPhone…

Before I write the Smithery Project outline for 2012, I thought it’d be worthwhile trying to grade last year’s three projects.  Three still seems like a good number of personal things to try to do in a year, despite the progress (or lack of therein) you’ll see below. To recap; I gave each of the [...]

Happy New Year and welcome to 2013. Our friends across the group and globe have been pulling together a summary of predicted trends for the year ahead. January always brings a rush of these, but we wanted to share them as there are some good points to kee[p in mind……

If you have an email address, then at some point you’ve probably been invited to an online seminar or workshop. Did you ignore the invitation or did you attend? You may or may not have accepted your invitation. From a business standpoint, however, online seminars should not be ignored as a remarkable marketing technique. The internet is a… Continue reading →

Make Things People Want & The Hollow Factory… from John V Willshire   A talk I gave on 27th November at IAB France / Hyper Island workshop in Paris… it’s set off all sorts of new thoughts too, more of … Continue reading →