Google have recently published some interesting research into how people are increasingly "multi-screening" - that is, using more than one device to be able to complete particular tasks and activities. Some headlines: - 90% of all media interactions are now screen-based - on average "we" (the survey was of US folk in LA, Austin and … Continue reading Maintaining state
Achievements this week included: - great meetings with Tim at isobar - ... Justin at Bite... - and another Justin from the corporate team - finishing up with two good days away with the new DPE Leadership Team Next week: childcare juggles
There's a photo doing the rounds on Twitter at the moment, with this: How The Sun newspaper reported about this new thing called the 'world wide web' in 1992... pic.twitter.com/fI3M7mH9 A colleague of mine retweeted it, I also saw Tom Watson (MP) retweet it, although with a question about its validity. You don't need to … Continue reading The retweetable bashing meme
There seemed to be a bizarre psychological experiment in play on my train home from central London last night. One of the two pairs of doors were out of order, and were denoted as such by four roughly 15-centimeter diameter blue circular stickers, two on each of the door windows, with an "!" and the … Continue reading The psychology of colour
I spent Saturday afternoon at Twickenham Stadium, watching the first games for the bulk of the London clubs of the rugby season. I'm more of a football person, but have grown an appreciation of the other code in the past decade. For some years rugby has used video technology as part of the refereeing set … Continue reading Objectivity in sport
Achievements this week included: - a good reception to my Ignite Ubelly talk - ...and an invite to speak at http://metaphwoar.org/ as a result (my dream event, quite frankly!) - helping colleagues to make sense of the "business of apps" content - a great session in the Consumer Experience Centre with a bunch from Imagination - a … Continue reading Weeknote 114: 20 slides in 300 seconds
There is a story that I have told a few times about a conversation I had soon after I started at Microsoft with one of my colleagues in the marketing team here. I was reminiscing (as one does as one gets to a certain age) about my first few years of work and how email … Continue reading Intra social networking
Here's (roughly) what I talked about when I spoke at the Ignite Ubelly event last night in London's fashionable West End... I want to share with you something that has been keeping me awake at night. It seems that we have arrived as a society into a world where everything of any importance needs to … Continue reading Two laws, one thermometer
Achievements this week included: - delivering most of my (soon to be ex-) team's performance reviews - getting some thoughts on the business of apps translated into external activities - some further contacts made internally and externally Next week: the first session in the Customer Experience Centre...
The TV series Mad Men has done a lot of crystallize the public perception of the marketing industry in the past few years, and it probably stereotypes a golden age for the ad men of Madison Avenue in the 1960s. Good looking, martini-chugging, fast talking, and a world dominated by creativity; where the great copywriters … Continue reading Disruption! (Or marketing in the early 21st century)
