Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

I’m really enjoying talking at Squared every quarter. Notionally it could be the same talk, but what I’m finding is that it’s a question I’m asking out loud all of this year, and so as I get a better grip … Continue reading →

I was lucky enough to be at The Do Lectures Start Up the other weekend. There are many stories to be shared from that another day, especially around the ‘start up bit’. But for now, I thought I’d share this … Continue reading →

You might remember the excellent promotional campaign around the Mailbox app: I was disappointed when the app itself arrived though. It felt too much of a halfway house between a normal email app, and what it was trying to do. … Continue reading →

I’ve been reading Grant McCraken’s Culturematic this week.  I met Grant at an event last year, after Mark introduced us, and insisted that I showed Grant some Artefact Cards. “That’s a Culturematic” said Grant, holding the cards. Having not read … Continue reading →

A roundup of relevant links affecting our industry.Each week at Ford, I compose a newsletter that includes a series of links about current events and trends in the worlds of technology, social media, mobile, communications and marketing in order to kee…

I’ve been meaning to properly read the “Digital Isn’t Working (Yet)” white paper by Ian Fitzpatrick & Erik Pelletier at Almighty in Boston, and found some proper time this afternoon to do it. (I was honoured that they asked if … Continue reading →

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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…