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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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A first glimpse at the PlayBook

“It is easy to forget about Blackberry“. Indeed, the end of 2010 seemed relatively quiet for the company, but that doesn’t mean they’d taken their foot off the innovation pedal. Blackberry’s eagerly anticipated first venture into the tablet market, the PlayBook has been well reviewed in the press. Reviewed as “blazingly fast, comfortable to hold, and intuitive to use”, with a touchscreen keyboard that is “very nicely laid out and super responsive, with possibly the best fake key tapping sound of all time”.

Posted February 23, 2011 10:43 am by Oliver 0 Comments

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Epic Win injects gaming into task lists

Think about it. A large amount of the activities we partake in online these days utilise principles from the gaming world. Take FourSquare as an example – you collect achievements (badges), compete against friends (who can become the mayor of Ye Olde Mitre first?), explore new locations, share tips and receive rewards (special offers).

Posted July 28, 2010 5:55 pm by Alex Horner 0 Comments

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Everything gets an app store

Oh, Apple. Look what you’ve done. Amazon had today announced that an app store is on its way for their Kindle e-reader device. Apps on phones made a whole lot of sense – sure, other mobile platforms had user-installable programs way before Apple’s iPhone. But the fact that you could easily download and install apps over the air and crucially, browse all the apps in one place meant things took off very quickly indeed.

Posted January 21, 2010 1:58 pm by Alex Horner 0 Comments

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Spotify goes mobile for Google’s G1

  We want this. Real real bad. The offline syncing is particularly rad, though we wonder if you’ll have to be a premium user (£9.99 a month) to make use

Posted May 28, 2009 4:33 pm by Alex Horner 0 Comments

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Marketing mobiles to kids

While doing some research on a new project this week we came across the following astounding facts from recent surveys: One in three eight-year olds have a mobile phone 75% of all children aged seven to 15 own “at least” one mobile Children as young as seven offer to do chores in exchange for cash to buy ringtones And perhaps our favourite (in a totally non evil way of course):

Posted May 27, 2009 11:39 am by Alex Horner 0 Comments

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The T-Mobile Dance looks ever so familiar

Had this come out before the evolution of dance or Grand Central station freeze videos it might have been a little more original. But it didn’t.

Posted January 19, 2009 11:25 am by Alex Horner 0 Comments

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