Archive for June, 2009

Real-time information sharing in action

26, Jun 2009

World news has been completely overshadowed by the death of Michael Jackson. The YouTube vid above is an interesting way of seeing how quickly the information was picked up on Twitter and then became a Storm. As an interesting addendum, MJs videos have stormed the viral video charts, to represent the entire top 20. Odds [...]

What happened to the scorecard???

24, Jun 2009

I love Summer. Especially Wimbledon. And my adoration of the season is nothing to do with sun. Or Strawberries. It’s to do with technology. I’m a massive fan of Auntie’s ever-expanding use of technlogy to allow us to keep up to date with Wimbledon. Blogs. Interactive maps. Videos. And of course, the IBM Scorecard. But I’ve been desperately [...]

New BP Ultima Ad

22, Jun 2009

The guys at Ogilvy London have just released this new making-of video, showing the behind the scenes trickery involved in their latest viral campaign for BP Ultimate. Aside from the notion of watching an advert being created (Sony adopted this approach with the Bravia ‘exploding paint’ ads), it got me thinking about how it could [...]

New Britain. The digital dinosaur.

19, Jun 2009

Britain is dead. Long live Digital Britain. I often feel that we are privileged to live in this time: technology is forcing a series of changes not just to the way we do business, but the way we live our life itself. Economic historians talk about us being in a ‘wave of innovation’, explaining history [...]


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