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Microsoft has put together a fascinating video that imagines our new mobile future. It’s a future where we connect to intelligent touch screens of all sizes. It suggests a world where data flows seamlessly and where there’s enough intelligence and power built into these devices help us...
Occupy Wall Street has captured people’s imagination worldwide and now questions are starting to be asked about the movement’s objectives and future. If you happen to be in NYC this Wednesday evening, you have a chance to meet some of the people involved in OWS, hear their perspective and ask...
It would easy to report that America’s food tastes are leaning towards the organic, healthy, natural and pure, but while this is true, there’s a new desire for “man food” that tastes great, but does you more harm than good and there in lies its appeal A great example is the recently...
Much has been written about iPod's success as a brand and the brilliance of its marketing and design. Some observers have just named iPod brand of the year for 2004.In today's iPod world, music seems to be playing an ever increasing role in everyone's lives. People who in the past might have...
Philips has always been a company that’s dedicated resources to visioning the future. I’s latest effort for Dutch Design Week is particularly intriguing in the way it integrates microbes and nature into the home. Their idea is to create a home based ecosystem that filters, processes and...
Last weekend I was fortunate enough to see The Creators Project in all its glory in DUMBO, Brooklyn. It blended art, music and technology and cleverly used the unique C19th warehouse architecture around the area. With two music stages and numerous art installations in a half mile radius, it made...
Agile is becoming the new demand for business and in the world of advertising certain parties are calling for planners to move faster- hence the rise of the term “agile planning”. What about agile creativity? Is there a way of working faster that could get to something better? Searching for...
Sometimes you get to learn the most from doing something outside the normal scope of everyday business. When Tim Malbon of Made by Many got in touch to ask if BSSP would get involved in the 5050 good (a hub of 50 projects designed to raise 1 million punds) for UNICEF’s East Africa famine...
Marketers are just getting to grips with the reality of Facebook’s power and are obviously eager to capitalize on it. However, the bigger it gets the harder it seems to go beyond eyeballs to develop something meaningful in terms of a deeper relationship with consumers. It’s very easy for...
IBM just published its latest global study on Chief Marketing Officers and the findings make for interesting reading. This is clearly a discipline that is under a lot of pressure and trying to cope with a ton of challenges that are being thrown its way. Here are some of the study’s most...
If you had talked to political experts at the beginning of 2011 and they would have told you Americans would never do what Europeans have done for years and take to the streets, but that has now changed with the rise of the Occupy Wall Street movement, which with the backing of the Unions has...
Nick Carr has a great response to the buzz and attention surrounding Amazon’s new e-reader launches and points out a fact about the changed reading experience they want to bring about. “The video is something of a Rorschach test. A person of the web may see X-Ray as a glorious advance....
Old, but good- the Portlandia team did a great job of dramatizing the problem of tech overload.
Piers and the folks at PSFK have assembled what looks like a veritable master-class from brilliant thinkers for its San Francisco event this coming Thursday. If you look for inspiration from the perspective of brilliant ideas, they’ve basically covered all of the bases. You can learn from...
Russell Davies of R/GA gave a superb talk at the RSA which was broadcast on the BBC, where he discussed the world of personal expression as it moves one step beyond blogging. His premise is that personal creativity is about to grow by leaps and beyond, he referenced the early and surprising growth...

