The Ugly State of the Recorded Music Industry
Awards nights are about telling stories and creating stories. The Australian Record Industry Association (ARIA) Awards currently do neither. The night should change – make…
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Constantine Frantzeskos
I build and grow global businesses, brands, and digital products with visionary marketing & digital strategy | Non-Executive Director | Startup investor and advisor | Techno-optimist
Cognitive Surplus visualised
People have always created things in their spare time – whether tinkering in their sheds, fixing cars, making quilts, painting, taking photos or other creative…
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Safari’s “Reader” poses problems for advertisers
Apple has just launched an updated version of the Safari browser that can strip ads out and foucs just on the content
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Apple iPad – What's old is Newton
Check out this 1993 ad for the infamous Apple Newton. Now check out this 2010 for the new Apple iPad. I like the subtle hat…
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“Simplicity is clarity, transparency and empathy”
There’s a lot to be said about simplicity. It’s the sign that someone “gets it”. The simpler, the better. As Albert Einstein said: “Everything should…
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Beautiful Information / Data Visualisation
We’ve said a few times that 2010 is the year of data visualisation; ways in which ordinary information can be visualised in a way that…
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The Apple iPad – Initial Thoughts
Every so often, a technology comes along that redefines competition within markets: Email redefined the way people communicate, and in doing so, undermined the letter…
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NEW versus BETTER
What makes things popular? Often, new stuff is popular, just because it’s new. It’s there – and it wasn’t there before. It doesn’t necessarily mean…
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Monopoly’s Massive Multiplayer Online Game (MMMOG)
How adland is cutting Big Media out of the future: a great piece from Wired on the Tribal DDB / Monopoly City Streets Massive Multiplayer…
Continue reading →Banner ads attached to flies – utterly remarkable
These kooky Germans attached banner ads to flies, and set them free in the giant Frankfurt convention centre. It’s brilliant, and very worthy of notice…
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Who needs a TV network when you’ve got UStream
Ustream is a live streaming service, where anyone can stream footage, video, audio and archival footage live on the web to potentially millions of people….
Continue reading →Apple’s T-shirt Box Photo
This is what makes Apple Apple. Even the boxes that hold call centre employee t-shirts have been designed with the single sense of purpose, that…
Continue reading →Fear of failure, fear of apples
How sick are we of telling another website what our name and details are? How sick are we of remembering our various passwords? How sick…
Continue reading →Kiss my RSS – An Explanation of RSS
Why don’t more people use RSS? Let’s start at the beginning, with an answer to the question: “What is RSS?” The best way to describe it…
Continue reading →Twit-hype – Half of Twitter have never Tweeted!
This from Marketing Charts: Half of Twitter Has Never Tweeted. So… 60% of people on Twitter abandon it after the first month. And now we find…
Continue reading →The holy trinity of 21st Century communications – marketing, technology and design
Watching this video of Coca-Cola’s new interactive vending machine, Anthony J Phillips, the Global Marketing Manager of Coca-Cola, talks about the “fantastic partnership between marketing,…
Continue reading →Google Squared – Definitely Not for Nerds
Google has released a fantastic new search option called Google Squared – it structures unstructured data, puts it in a table, and makes compiling lists…
Continue reading →Seth Godin on: Luxury vs. premium
Seth Godin asks – what’s the difference between luxury vs premium? He argues in essence, Luxury is an extravagant price on a less than extravagant…
Continue reading →SmartCompany: Me on Twitter’s churn and burn
I’m is quoted in this Patrick Stafford piece in SmartCompany. It’s about Twitter’s appalling churn rate of over 60%. Some of the reasons why Twitter’s retention…
Continue reading →The social media space has come down with swine flu
Swine flu is dominating Google search. For the past two days (in the US at least), discussions around “swine flu”, “pig flu” and other such…
Continue reading →Happy 10th Birthday Cluetrain!
The Cluetrain Manifesto is a book that inspired many of us, giving us a framework that allowed our passion for the digital space to become…
Continue reading →Dominos Going to Fall
Dominos Pizza has been embarrassed by a scandal where some employees of the business made a video that showed them doing some pretty disgusting things…
Continue reading →Managing reputations online – QantasSucksWorld.com
Another example of a consumer based corporate abuse site, http://qantassucksworld.com, celebrates it’s first anniversary this week. The site describes itself as “the Qantas News website by…
Continue reading →Online searches are getting longer (8+ words)
People are using Google instead of portals and one stop shops – we know that. Search is the gateway to content. Even Rupert Murdoch this…
Continue reading →Twitter is for old people
According to Nielsen, Twitter is most popular with 35-49 year olds, with teens barely rating on the Twitter popularity scale: Twitter Doesn’t Smell Like Teen Spirit…
Continue reading →Anatomy of a social media disaster
Two recent campaigns by Australian organisations have caused a debate over trust in social media campaigns. Tourism Queensland (TQ) recently launched a campaign with a…
Continue reading →What ever happened to Webrings?
In the olden days of the early-mid 90s, websites on like topics were linked via webrings; links / arrows on the bottom of the page…
Continue reading →A trusted digital travel advisor
I recently returned from a very relaxing three week holiday in Greece and Italy. The groups that provided services and tours concluded the experiences with a…
Continue reading →Google might be making us stupid
A great piece on how Google, and changing media consumption habits are changing the way we think – literally. Is Google Making Us Stupid?
Continue reading →Bill Leak on Bill Henson
Two great cartoons from Bill Leak in The Australian over the past two days on the Bill Henson saga: Monday 26 May Saturday 24 May
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