Remember when politics was about democracy in America? Now it’s about the consumer and the candidate’s brand cloud. All Mobile, All the Time It used to be that if you loved a candidate’s values and ideals, you put a sign in your front yard or in your condo window and you quietly talked about it [...]
Continue reading...2. October 2008
That whole thing about answers being in the palm of our hand? True, or is the phone a distraction? I almost really screwed it up at work today, and it had everything to do with being on the phone. I am constantly bedazzled and bewitched by the Internets at work, and on top of that [...]
Continue reading...29. September 2008
You know you are cool when the photoshop geeks start making spoofs about you BlackBerry has long been relegated as the boring “for work” device. After a year of agressive marketing to change that image (along with a bunch of not-so-businessy handsets), it seems the world is ready to laugh along with BlackBerry… …or are [...]
Continue reading...29. September 2008
In Asia, it’s no longer an arbeit macht Whirpool mentality. Several hours on NJ Transit today gave me time to read The Economist: Not so long ago, the most exciting thing about emerging markets was their cheap labour. Local firms supplied first manufactured goods and then services to developed markets and multinationals. That remains and [...]
Continue reading...25. September 2008
There is only one web. Forget about “mobile sites”. They attract no more mobile web visitors than any other site. New data from Opera (the maker of a popular mobile web browser, which I use) shows that the same “Long Tail” of web activity exists for both mobile and desktop. [via press release] “In most [...]
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6. October 2008
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