November 2011
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Is Responsive Design really the future of web... →
My recent blog on First Advertising about Responsive Web Design.
April 2011
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WatchMatt Ridley makes an excellent and entertaining case for the Global Brain, and why the future is brighter than you think.
March 2011
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The Great CCTV Camera of History →
We are leaving behind such massive amounts of information about our lives, that genealogy of the future will be less like treasure hunting, and more like data-mining.
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Fukushima and the Feedback Loop of Fear.
Let me preface this by saying I am not an expert in nuclear reactors or nuclear physics. However, I do know a thing or two about the media. The situation in Japan is serious. Very serious. And it could get worse still. But it is not the doomsday scenario being peddled by the media.
A concerned friend recently sent me a new story from Business Insider about the recent developments at the...
February 2011
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What does neuroplasticity have to do with web... →
This article first appeared on my blog on First Advertising.
The Information Age is putting increasing stress on our Stone Age brains. But how are the neurological consequences of this influencing how we design websites? And how can you avoid becoming a hunter-gatherer in the “electronic data forest”?
October 2010
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The Future of Augmented Reality
When the final technical challenges to the mainstream adoption of Augmented Reality are overcome, the petabytes of data stored on the Internet will flood our immediate reality, opening up new frontiers for advertising and giving whole new meaning of the term “future shock”.
The first generation of AR tools, like the Layar and AcrossAir apps have given us a glimpse of what is to come, linking up...
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Life Levelled Up: The Internet and the Awakening...
The Internet represents much more that just a technological shift or economic game changer. It signifies a phase shift in evolutionary complexity on par with the emergence of the Eukaryotic Cell. Yet we are so caught up with the consequences to society, business and government that we have scarcely had a chance to ponder its significance within the broader context of evolutionary history.
But...
July 2010
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Illuminatism: First Religion of the Information...
Are Conspiracy Theories Giving Birth to a New Religion? In the nine years since 9/11 conspiracy theories about the Illuminati have grown from fringe notions held by religiously inclined paranoiacs to mainstream beliefs championed by former governors and major celebrities. With unshakable beliefs and fanatical adherents, perhaps what we’re witnessing is not the unmasking of a grandiose...
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Valve’s Viral Treasure Hunt
I often see the Games and Web industries as siblings. Roughly the same age, both emerged in the late 20th century to cause fundamental shifts in the entertainment and communication landscapes. They have an established and growing overlap that started out with geeky text based MUD (Multi User Dungeon) games in the late 70s that evolved into massive profit churning monsters like World of Warcraft....
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Samsung: A Case Study in Social Marketing
Many companies are still to stick a toe in the waters of Social Marketing, while others clumsily belly flop in without knowing what lies beneath the waves. Samsung on the other hand, perform aquatic acrobatics to the point of showing off.
First and foremost, Samsung have a thriving presence in the holy trinity of social media Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. Their twitter account is in many...