In fact, we all are. The New Marketing just got superceded by a new blogging platform that is more integrated with the Metia web site and provides a platform to a bigger group of the experts in the company to talk about what we do and what interests... Read More

Recommending the Joy of Stats, a TV documentary that goes right to the heart of so many of the projects that Metia teams are working on right now (available to view until December 14, UK only). Whether you're involved in data driven design and programming,... Read More

A number of people have pulled me up on my post last week when I wrote that Kinect could be breakthrough for gesture controlled interfaces. First of all I neglected to mention voice, a serious oversight. I also should have included EEG technology that... Read More

So Google News now has a 'most shared' section. It's a great example of just how far the sharing model for content distribution has taken over the web. Not long ago we had specialists working on viral campaigns for our clients. Today, pretty much every... Read More

Hard to believe, but when the iPhone was first launched it was promoted heavily as um, well, a phone. That was back in 2007, before the app store exploded and the touch screen experience became the interface aspiration of just about every device manufacturer... Read More

Several content curation tools have hit computers and tablets in the past six months. Broadly speaking they fall into two categories: automatic curation, where an application pulls in content from a Twitter stream, facebook account or RSS feed; and edited... Read More

You wouldn’t normally mention an 11th century ruler of England in the same sentence as a 20th century quantum physicist. But Canute and  Erwin Schroedinger together illustrate one of main challenges facing content today. Stick with me on this one.Let’s... Read More

Brussels has been home for about six months now. We live to the south of city, near a large park called the Bois de la Cambre. If you’re a Londoner, think Richmond, if you’re in New York it’s like Central -  a bit more rolling but with the same mix... Read More

Quick follow up to yesterday's post about paywalls. This time a good article about politico.com.Here's the key quote: "Find the right niche – say one that everyone who makes a living out of US government has to be aware of – and you have an audience... Read More

The whole paywall argument has resurfaced again, this time on the back of strong figures from the Financial Times online and far from transparent numbers from News International about the London Times subscription experiment.I can see why people are looking... Read More

Today Xbox Kinect was launched. It's great !With some of the projects we're working on we've had one for a little while now and I've had a chance to use it, all in the aspect of research you know.I remember seeing a WII controller work for the first time... Read More

Here's the formal release: Metia creates a ‘Rough Guide to the World’ web site for leading travel publisher ·         Interactive site uses Windows Internet Explorer 9, HTML5 and Flickr to allow travellers to... Read More

Some time round about now in San Francisco and London, Microsoft is formally taking the wrappers off IE9. Which means our NDA and embargoes time out and we can shout about the Rough Guide to the World. I suspect the launch will grab a bunch of coverage,... Read More

Posts have been few and far between recently. The old fashioned paradigm of work (doing lots of it, offline) has been crashing into the new one (talk about doing it, online). Which is great and gives us many new projects to talk about in the next few... Read More

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