Achievements this week included: - further content creation work on Why App? (a slight change of name there...) - contacts made on the agency work in the corporate mother ship - invitations to present at an agency day happening next month - fascinating insight from Visa Europe - the wonderful news from The Partners - … Continue reading Weeknote 125: HST
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A meeting earlier this week with a chap from Visa Europe spurred a whole load of thoughts about money - and actually what it is... First, some remarkable stats gleaned from the session: one in every six euros spent in Europe in retail (ie excluding things like mortgage and bill payments) is spent via Visa's … Continue reading What is… money?
Achievements this week included: - an interesting time at the CBI conference - presenting on the impact of consumerisation at the IT in Housing event in London - refining and developing the When to App content & workshops - some interesting conversations about activity at MWC 2013 - and a successful first week of potty training … Continue reading Weeknote 124: windy
Achievements this week included: - good catch ups with former colleagues from the BBC and Imagination - interesting connections made with our Windows, Consulting and Partner businesses - a visit at last to http://www.modernjago.co.uk/ - some thinking around how gaming, content and apps align - and a successful evening's presenting at the wonderful http://www.metaphwoar.org/ Next … Continue reading Weeknote 123: metaphwoarically speaking
Achievements this week included: - great meetings with Lawrence @LogistikGroup about some sessions at Modern Jago next month - a successful session at the #mshuddle event at Mindshare - a great fun evening as a partner of The Partners talking analogously - and some spit and polish on forthcoming presentations Next week: catching up with colleagues old to … Continue reading Weeknote 122: testing ground
Yesterday I found out the news about Bradley Wiggins' road accident from The Sun newspaper. It's not a publication that I bought - but at Waterloo Station in London there are large digital display screens that at the moment have the latest headlines from The Sun newspaper. Except, of course, because it's live and it's digital, … Continue reading What is a… newspaper?
I was presenting at an event a few weeks back alongside someone whose business is focused on advising people about media intellectual property rights, particularly in the film sector. She gave an interesting analysis that the traditional Hollywood model of "release windows". It used to be the case that the sheer cost of duplication of … Continue reading What is a… Cinema?
Achievements this week included: - final cut of the When to app framework for next week's Huddle - and prep for a few of the other events I've got coming up - good catch up with @andrewdotcom (he always likes a mention ;o)) - and further conversations about how the agency work moves forward Next week: event-o-rama
I remember many years ago my father prophesising that one day TVs would become componentised in the way that hifi systems were, with a separation of modules to be able to allow people to buy the functions that they needed. Dad's maybe not ill-placed to have made such predictions, with the first part of his career spent … Continue reading What is a… TV?
The work I did last week with Marks & Spencer got me thinking about how many of the things we have in our day-to-day lives have, in the past 10 years or so, dramatically shifted in their even if, on the face of it, they seem pretty much the same as they ever were. This … Continue reading What is a… shop?
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