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Archive for the ‘ Digital Ambient ’ Category

“I really bloody hate Facebook”

  As well as: “What the f&*k is this?” “I’m going to delete my profile…now. Bye bye” “God give me the will to live” …were just a few select comments I’ve been reading from my friends (on Facebook).

Posted September 28, 2011 12:36 pm by Oliver 0 Comments

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Augmented Reality, Qr codes & other great technology ideas. You never know how things are going to turn out

Over 7 years ago I carried out a large qualitative research project for a leading mobile operator on the appeal of 3G services. We looked at Location Based Services including offers ‘on the move’, video telephony (a la Apple Face Time), traffic navigation and a whole host of other new developments.

Posted September 13, 2011 6:00 pm by Oliver 0 Comments

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My brand new bike I wrote to work this morning…

I hope I am not making anyone too jealous. Contact Juri Zaech if you are. He might do one specially for you.

Posted September 7, 2011 9:30 am by Oliver 0 Comments

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Tech City will become a tech centre of excellence

Silicon Valley it might not be, but I for one applaud the selection of “Tech City’s” location in and around Shoreditch in East London. Known as East London Tech City (or Silicon Roundabout!) the scheme has already received backing from tech giants such as Google, Facebook and Intel.

Posted August 30, 2011 4:07 pm by Oliver 0 Comments

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Pomodroido: Time Management 2.0

Time management isn’t a new field, with hundreds of books published over the last 50 or so years (and the rest), each professing to hold the secrets behind turning unmotivated workers into Überarbeiten – the basic premise being that by utilizing a few simple techniques (normally based on small promises you make to yourself) you’ll get more done with less effort.

Posted April 21, 2011 8:59 am by Oliver 0 Comments

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Pomodroido – time management 2.0

Time management isn’t a new field, with hundreds of books published over the last 50 or so years (and the rest), each professing to hold the secrets behind turning unmotivated workers into Überarbeiten – the basic premise being that by utilizing a few simple techniques (normally based on small promises you make to yourself) you’ll get more done with less effort.

Posted April 20, 2011 5:20 pm by Oliver 0 Comments

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Bunch of 5

Welcome to this weeks bunch of 5, a hand-crafted selection of digital facts to make you look good in client meetings.  This week we’ve focused on online video: 1. Top 10 YouTube Videos of All Time   2. YouTube Search YouTube search accounts for nearly 28% of all Google searches.   3. YouTube Stats During 2010, people watched more than 700 billion YouTube videos. That’s around 1.9 billion videos per day! WOW!   4. iPlayer Stats Last month 148 million videos were played on iPlayer with over 2 million of those plays coming for the newly launched iPad app.   5. Facebook Movies Warner Bros. announced this week that it will offer movies directly for rent or purchase through Facebook, becoming the first Hollywood studio to introduce a video-on-demand service on the world’s largest social network.

Posted April 5, 2011 1:20 pm by Oliver 0 Comments

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Near Field Communications (NFC)

Some things you’d bet the family silver (or nearest metal equivalent) on and some things you wouldn’t. Paying for goods directly through your mobile phone using Near Field Communications (NFC) technology – in layman’s terms a swiping device (think of the London Tube’s Oystercard) – has to be a pretty good bet for the future.

Posted March 30, 2011 8:57 am by Oliver 0 Comments

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Beware of trapped videos on Youtube

Nowadays, we all have to be aware of hackers on the web. Social networks are no different. By creating websites that look like Youtube, hackers are now able to trap users and steal their personnal data. Have any of your friends ever published a video with a header such as: “sexy Italian”, “cute cat” or an ingenious “secret document about the moon”?

Posted March 11, 2011 3:55 pm by Oliver 0 Comments

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The 2011 most innovative companies

First, make a list of the 50 companies you think are the most innovative. Then, compare your answers with this list from www.fastcompany.com and see how good you are at

Posted February 23, 2011 11:13 am by Oliver 0 Comments

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