I have always thought that Web 2.0 companies choose names that look like bad txt messages: Flickr , IYomu , Bebo etc. I made a comment on Umami to the same effect – Johnny had been to Tech Crunch earlier this year and virtually every company had nonsensical names. So I found this quiz that […]
My Apple Powerbook G4 threw a wobbly last night – an electrical burning smell pervaded my study, and my laptop slowly lost power, moving onto reserve power before I shut it down to save my work. I traced the fault to an arcing power lead. A break in the plastic had caused it to short […]
Should I invest in Leopard? I’m running a Powerbook G4 with 1.25 GHz processor and 1GB of RAM. This is within the recommendations set by Apple, but it’s always going to run best on the latest machines. I’ll be interested to see what other ‘older’ Apple users experience. There’s a typically exhaustive review on Cnet […]
Here’s a plug for a new product launched by some ex-Intergenites. In fact the business is an off shoot of Intergen so there’s some serious development power behind it. Action This : get stuff done, go home early! I arrived home at 8.45pm tonight. Perhaps I need something like this. I downloaded the trial today […]
Well, that’s a bit spooky! Here I was talking about the Mondeo TVC and how I had thought it was an ad for Sony – only to find the latest offering from Sony on YouTube. I reckon it’s pretty damn cool – it’s a ‘real’ stop animation and apparently used 2.5 tonnes of Play Doh.
I’ve been reading a lot of articles in the last few days on the movement away from traditional advertising media (print and TV) into the online space. It’s happening subtly – large companies are creating spaces that will appeal to their clients, and if they can create a community then the dollar benefits follow. An […]