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Adam Skikne currently works at studio4332 (www.studio4332.com) as a copywriter. Like most people in advertising, he is waiting for the inevitable death of traditional media so that clients can spend more money on cool digital things. He’s hopeful, yet skeptical, about social but is more excited about mobile. One day, he will have enough money for an Android phone as well as all the hidden data costs. Until then, he has a Blackberry and a very nice Android T-shirt. You can follow him on Twitter, but be warned: he’s not that exciting.
Project Glass is a perfect example of what Google calls “moonshot thinking” – the type of thinking required to take on global-scale problems, define radical solutions to those problems, and succeed in solving those problems through the development of breakthrough technology.
For Google, Glass is a device that could potentially change the way we search, the way we share and the way we interact with the world around us. Make no mistake, Project Glass is extremely ambitious which is part ...
At the end of 2012, Joshua Topolsky wrote an editorial for The Verge entitled "Reasons to be excited". In the piece, Topolsky stated that while we’ve spent the past few years getting used to things like social networks, smartphones and tablets, 2013 will be the year where we will begin to understand the impact that these new technologies will have on our lives.Make no mistake. If you are in digital, it is definitely the time to be excited. We’ve all ...
Think you could do with an extra dose of crazy in your life? The latest John McAfee episode should do you just fine. Apparently the anti-virus pioneer turned murder suspect was actually a master spy the whole time.You might recall that back in November, McAfee went on the run after being declared a person of interest in the murder of his neighbour Gregory Faull on Ambergris Caye, an island off the coast of Belize.The American billionaire claimed that ...
Olivia Fox Cabane makes her living by teaching people the skills needed to be charismatic, influential and persuasive. During her career, she’s been invited to speak at Harvard, MIT, Google and the United Nations. And through her new book, The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism, Cabane wants to change the way you think about charisma.While most people think charisma is so something you’re either born with it or you’re not, Cabane believes ...
In his latest book, Public Parts: How Sharing in the Digital Age Improves the Way We Work and Live, Jeff Jarvis traces the relationship between privacy and "publicness" and examines how it has been affected by a number of "new" technologies ranging from Gutenberg’s printing press and the Kodak camera to social networks such as Facebook and Twitter.Through the book, Jarvis argues that technology has always created fears about privacy throughout history. Today there are many advocates for privacy but ...
The majority of articles about Android all seem to start with the same statistic: About 1 in 2 of the world's smartphones currently run Android. That’s impressive, especially since Android has only been around for 3 years. It seems that the world has gone gaga for Google’s little green robot, but while Android is clearly dominating global smartphone sales, the same thing cannot be said with regards to tablets.One of the main reasons for this is the iPad, a product ...
My experience with Google+ began last Thursday evening when I took to Facebook and Twitter and posted the following:Google+ looks pretty cool. Keen to give it a try... #hinthint #searchingforinvites #rememberyourgoodfriendadamI was pretty shocked to find that, within a few minutes, I had gotten a reply from somebody who knew somebody…and by the time I woke up on Friday morning, I had a Google+ invite waiting for me in my inbox.For those of you who don’t know, Google+ is Google’s ...
Naomi Klein’s NO LOGO chronicled a global backlash against a number of “super brands” that used advertising and branding in questionable ways to maximise their profits. The book helped produce a new class of conscientious consumers by highlighting some of the features of an overly branded and globalised world: No Space, No Choice and No Jobs.NO LOGO was the warning on the label of the bad mood rising against corporate brands that abused their role and influence in society. And ...
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