Influx

David Benque's project for the Impact exhibition at the Royal College of Art, shows an alternative perspective on the return of manufacturing to cities. While it's assumed by expert commentators that rising oil prices could make it viable to re-open cities up to manufacturing in the traditional...

The problems associated with a saturated media landscape is something I have talked about for years on this blog. As media expands especially in the digital space, this problem has the potential to get out of control. Media owners are hungry to expand into the mobile ad space, but appear to be...

The Kevin Smith debacle on Southwest gives us a glimpse into a new future of customer relationship management. In the past, companies would have had procedures to cope and manage the treatment of VIPs. Obviously, whatever processes Southwest had in place clearly failed, but given their positioning,...

Foursquare just announced a partnership with Bravo Television  for a few seconds it did not compute, but I went deeper to see what the deal was all about. It's really smart as it offers Bravo a chance for deeper engagement with its audience. "Of course Bravo is going to put the full power of...

While Apple's iPad has been the subject of a lot of attention ranging, from ridicule and mixed reviews. The spin suggested the iPad would usher in a new era for those in the publishing business by creating another medium for consumers to experience print. However, the promise suggested by Apple's...

The BBC has decided the web is now worthy and has made it the subject of a detailed documentary series, The Virtual Revolution, that explores its origins, evolution and examines the implications of the technology for society. It's a highly ambitious, well-researched and thoughtful look at what 20...

Twitter might be the brand with optimum buzz at the moment, but it's not enough to take the brand to the next level. With Twittergate last July, a number of sensitive documents were "stolen" including one that defined the company's mission which is "to be the pulse of the planet". Judging by some...

While the tablet frenzy is reaching epic proportions and everyone seems to be looking at Apple, HP does not want to let it's efforts slip by unnoticed because it does have something interesting to say...it has a tablet and it's very cheap!However, the company has a fun way of going about things,...

There's a nice piece on All Facebook that takes us through a history of the various incarnations of the Farmville game from it's earliest days in May of 2007 to today.Farmville, Zynga's game wasn't launched until June 2009 and has grown rapidly to reach 10 million active daily users by August of...

Great work from BERG (a UK design consultancy) that investigates the potential future for magazines. I like the way they acknowledge an understanding of the two forms of "reading"; one that's more visual and the other that's true reading. Mag+ from Bonnier on Vimeo.Posted by Ed Cotton

The geography of data, people and objects is fast becoming transparent. We can now tell where a plane is mid flight, we know how many miles we ran and if we are clever, we can map those miles, we can see exactly where photographs were taken and our cars can be effortlessly guided to our destination...

When technology goes small and more powerful, it creates new possibilities for exploitation by advertising and media entities. Ideas like screens on magazine covers and billboards that talk to you are now possible, if not yet, mainstream realities. The latest example is a spirits bottle by...

There's some great material in here from a presentation given by Rashmi Sinha, the founder of Slideshare, at the Web 2.0 Expo. I think this is representative of the type of thinking that needs to be applied when it comes to building things like building brand utilities.The highlights for me are the...

If the ad business does not understand the new world of conversation, there's nothing like an awards show to get them interest, when egos are at stake, everything changes.In response, to my last post on the Adweek poll debacle, @bigspaceship pointed me to one of the longest discussion threads in...

When Adweek decided to run dozens of polls to celebrate the end of the decade, they surely could not have been aware of the potential for voter fraud. While most of the categories seem to be running kinda OK, taking a look at the small agency category and you can to tell things are not quite right,...