Welcome back to my daily dose of Predictions for this year. If you’ve read the original artilce as a whole, skip this one! Today I’ve bundled 3 and 4 together as they’re both about messaging and the first is rather short 3. SMS Continues to grow like crazy. We ain’t seen nothing yet. 4. MMS [...]
Archive | January, 2005
Cory on DRM
Cory Doctorow writes great sci fi, co-authors uber blog Boing Boing and has decided opinions on DRM (Digital Rights Management). He was interviewed this week at The Feature and very interesting he is too. Cory’s position is that DRM is a waste of time. This is partly because copying and sharing is inherent in the [...]
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Making History
TJ and I came up with a pretty cool idea recently, which I think is unique – but I’m sure we’ll find someone who’ll claim it’s been done before Why not auction off advertising space on blogs on eBay? So I placed an ad this morning to sell off the ad space you can see [...]
Prediction 2
I’m running a series of posts on my predictions for this year. Don’t forget to leave a comment! Location Based Services I don’t think 2005 is going to be the year for LBS – as much as anything the operators aren’t really behind it yet and their technology hasn’t really been deployed. But we continue [...]
Sounds and Actions of Yesteryear
I was gently turning over in my mind some of the things that technology has made redundant, that we once took for granted only a few years ago. For instance: – Offices used to be really buzzy places as everyone used to be on the phone, generating voice noise. Now they’re much more intense with [...]
19 Days
I broke one of blogging’s golden rules the other day when I wrote “20 Predictions for 2005″. That golden rule is “keep it short” as we’re all too busy to read and analyse long posts. So, following some email feedback, I thought it would be worth breaking the whole post into bite sized chunks and [...]
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Rap Meets SMS
The artist, Frank Plant, wrote to me to tell me about the new installation, F2T (Free to Talk) he’s created with his colleague, Thomas Charveriat. It’s kind of rap meets sms meets robots! Check out the link here and watch the video. Viewers interact directly with the artwork by sending it a short text message [...]
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Happy Slapping, son of Tango
Back in the mists of advertising time, there was quite a famous ad for Tango (a soft orange-flavoured carbonated drink in the UK). The advertising was very youth oriented and really tried to “push the envelope”. One execution involved a Tango drinker who is surprised by a very obese, naked bald man coloured from head [...]
Forehead Advertising
Blogging A-lister Doc Searls writes about Brandy, a 21 year old mum, auctioning off her forehead to advertisers. Last April Fool day, a bunch of colleagues and I were fooling around with some press release ideas. We came up with the concept of a group of desperate entrepreneurs who offered to tattoo their foreheads (permanently) [...]
It is Morning in Africa
It is morning in Africa and As the sun rises over the plains The gazelle awakens knowing that If it cannot outrun the fastest lion It will be dead. It is morning in Africa and The lion awakens knowing that If it cannot outrun the slowest gazelle It will die. It is morning in Africa [...]
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