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Is Amazon Founder and CEO, Jeff Bezos on Twitter? Only, I did a quick search and could only find the guy to the right. And I don’t think that’s him. I mean, I doubt he’d post 66.6% of his total Tweet count in French. Plus, he’s not verified. That’s what really tipped me off. Jeff! […]
Continue ReadingOnce the domain of only military pilots and smartbombs, the Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) system has now proliferated its way into every facet of our modern lives. From Facebook statuses, sat nav in car dashboards to geo-tagged photos taken with your digital camera you probably use GPS at least once a day even if you […]
Continue ReadingI can barely describe how excited I am about the next episode of the GTA series: Grand Theft Auto 5. Known for their cinematic engagement, stunning visuals, open-ended play and well-rounded characters, the franchise gets better and better with each release. Grand Theft Auto 5 should be something quite special. And from the recent marketing […]
Continue ReadingThis is going viral, originally from TES: Dear Michael Gove, You will never read this, but I feel compelled to put it out there in the faint hope that more people will realise the repercussions of your latest initiative. I am proud to work at a small school, on a small estate, in the […]
Continue ReadingIt has been 25 years since the last redesign but here it is, Microsoft’s new logo: What do you think? Microsoft’s New Logo I do believe that companies should refresh themselves every so often. Microsoft’s old logo is a classic and timeless so there must have been something significant to have encouraged them to […]
Continue ReadingA panel from excellent Brit TV channel, “Dave“, have compiled their Top 10 Jokes from the 2012 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Here they are: 10. Nish Kumar My mum’s so pessimistic, that if there was an Olympics for pessimism… she wouldn’t fancy her chances. 9. Lou Sanders I waited an hour for my starter […]
Continue ReadingTaxonomy Taxonomy is the classification and categorisation of… uh, stuff. First we will look at the various kinds of toilet paper you will find, bog roll if you will, their properties and the differentiators between them. If you go into your local supermarket-me-do, you will notice that for a half-decent toilet roll you’ll pay about […]
Continue ReadingThere are two ways make a product successful: either you saturate consumers with marketing so there literally is no other choice but to buy it (“push”), or you make the product so appealing that it hardly needs any marketing capital at all (“pull”). Apple Right now, Apple is proving that pull is the approach […]
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