Here's great analysis of the future of digital in specialist and non-specialist agencies from www.adweek.com.The main thrust of the article argues that traditional agencies are muscling in on digital campaigns focusing on content, especially viral video.... Read More

There's plenty to read on Flipboard today. Especially if you want to know if it's legal, how the technology works, and whether or not servers are crashing under the weight of demand.But I think this misses the bigger picture. Flipboard, as you probably... Read More

After Cloud, Cloud, CLOUD yesterday (ok, ok we believe you), today we got the consumer angle. The connectedness of the Microsoft 'Personal Cloud' story worked for me. In the office, IT make sure everything works, but at home I'm my own support desk and... Read More

Not everything goes to plan. My World Cup journey ended in a bar in Washington DC, rather than Johannesburg. While neither England or the USA exactly set the competition alight. Metia came away with more than a few extra fans. Metia's Mobile Keepy... Read More

In the third of our  series of tech podcasts, we talk with Martin Hingley, Founder of ITCandor – a company dedicated to researching the Information Technology and Communications (ITC) industry.   Martin and Richard discuss the world of Cloud... Read More

The development team in Metia Seattle has been exploring uses for Pivot, a software application from Microsoft Live Labs that let's users interact with large volumes of data. To bring Pivot to life, the team tipped in all the player stats for all the... Read More

Here's a gorgeous piece of online content and design from Uniqlo, the people who brought you polo shirts in 200 pastel shades. Like any great user experience, it doesn't need much explanation, although I was impressed by the tilt-shift time lapse photography... Read More

Here's something to occupy the barren hours before kick off. The creative team tell me there are a magnificent eight moments of iconic World Cup history recreated in the video we knocked up for our Mobile Keepy Uppy game. Can you find them? BTW -... Read More

This week we have had a team over at the Beach Break Live student festival in Wales. Our role was to build and sustain a virtual experience that gave a flavour for the live events happening at the festival. Live streaming wasn't an option, so instead... Read More

As England switches off from work and switches on the telly for tonight's match, here's a latest score from World Cup Keepy Uppy. In just one week the 'patently silly football juggling game for mobile phone users' aka Mobile Keepy Uppy has been downloaded... Read More

Quick update on our Mobile Keepy Uppy game. Seems there are a few people out there with time on their hands. The game is featured here on the Freeware Pocket PC site, and elsewhere on Mobile TopSoft amongst others. On the Freeware site it has... Read More

                    It all seemed plausible enough at the time. The chaps in Metia Labs said: "We really want to explore the uses for accelerometers in mobile phones, maybe look at the use... Read More

Yesterday I got a piece of personally targetted direct mail with a proposition specific to my business. Nothing unusual there. But it was sent to me at my home address. In fact the whole creative angle was trading on how clever the sender was to... Read More

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How complicated is Facebook's privacy policy? Physicist Niels Bohr's famous quote comes to mind: "Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it."This infographic from the New York Times (snapshot... Read More

How do your clients and customers make up their minds? There's a growing list of reader-friendly titles that explain how economics, game theory and neuroscience combine to influence the hundreds of decisions that we make every day.Freakanomics probably... Read More

Good post here by Gartner's Richard Fouts on using customer references across the breadth of an organization. It comes complete with this nifty little quote from Richard: "Case in point: now that Metia has supercharged Microsoft’s customer reference... Read More

Last week we met up with Charlie Kindel - @ckindel - one of the Microsoft execs driving the Windows Phone 7 Series (WP7) program. Our interest in WP7 is to use our Silverlight and .Net skills to build mobile experiences and apps for brands.... Read More

Metia has a flourishing SharePoint practice. They focus upon making SharePoint implementations more successful by improving end user experiences (designing better UIs); building bespoke tools and applications to improve the efficiency of collaboration;... Read More

Conversation Manager vs Community Manager by John Bell at Ogilvy. Microsoft: Back in the MIX. Developers, Developers, Developers Reprised by James Governor at Redmonk. B2B Sales Pros Turn to LinkedIn from eMarketeer. The Internet of Things by McKinsey... Read More

The Times and Sunday Times will be available on an iPAD application later this year. Prices still haven't been confirmed for the service, although it seems likely that this will be bundled up with the existing subscription offer of £2 (U.S.$3.00) per... Read More

Having just returned from SXSW and MIX10, where geo-location, social technologies and user experience were all big topics of conversation, I arrived back in London to find Metia Labs has just finished the Near.me project. Near.me uses the Foursquare... Read More

Back in the old days it was all so easy. The copywriter threw some text at the designer, the designer chucked it back in layout. The writer threw it back even harder, and ducked as the pages came back with some pretty tasty top spin. At the end of the... Read More

Now that we're all back from MIX and the inbox has been almost cleared I wanted to say a big thank you to everybody involved especially those that put on The Phizzpop Challenge.Unfortunately we didn't win but to get to the final three of a national competition... Read More

In the first in a series of tech podcasts, Richard Cookson from our AR team talk with David Metcalfe, director of Verdantix, an independent analyst firm specialising in climate change, sustainability and energy issues.    David and Richard... Read More