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Measurement
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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
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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
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Always had a soft spot for compelling data visualization. The Guardian's Charles Arthur has a post on how people are using source data from the Guardian's Datastore to re-package and re-present data on the MP's expenses furore here in the UK. Read More
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I was a bit disappointed by this piece in the Independent - Measuring PR success by column inches is old hat – welcome to a new analysis. I get the Independent at home, so think its generally a sound read.
Apparently the breaking news is that Advertising Read More
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A couple of recent articles caught my eye:
"Marketing is the new finance" according to Google's chief economist in this AdWeek article. Google has a chief economist?
VC tells agencies to get some serious tech creds, article in AdWeek again - creativity Read More
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Strangely, one of our most popular posts ever was this story from Wade on Sun taking a swipe at Microsoft on their home turf by advertising OpenOffice on the local Seattle bus routes (see the number of angry comments the Read More
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Supportive of the Scouts for helping out on the UK skills shortage by launching a new activity badge for PR, I found out they also have them for Creativity and IT (below), which goes some way to fixing our recruitment needs.
And surely these Read More
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It is my daughter's eighth birthday soon, I could run it by her... but I reckon she'll stick with a Hamster.
Gizmodo unearthed the story. Read More
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Mashable's list of top US election resources, reminded me of some thoughts I had on the subject of politics and online when I was in the US last week.
First, I was amazed how much media bandwidth the whole topic was already consuming, despite Read More
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I don't why I find this snippet interesting.
The Raw Story runs a story on the cost a wiretap, or telephone tap to us Brits.
Comcast will fix a wiretap for you at $1,000 to install, then its $750 a month to keep on eavesdropping. Not a bad margin Read More
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Back from Seattle.
I was going to post about the impact a windy day can have in the rufty tufty Pacific Northwest (too much of that nature nearby, I guess). But that seems churlish, when I now know that London's main airport needs two hours Read More
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En route to Heathrow this morning the sun was shining and all was well in middle England. The usual crew of Sunday afternoon business travellers to the US had a spring in their step. For another week their dream lives on. I even saw Read More
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Is it possible for a company to be evil and also play cricket?
I thought I knew a lot about Microsoft but this Reuters story put a new spin on it (sorry).
Disclosure: Microsoft are both a partner and customer, so if anyone wants to read anything Read More
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TV and film directors don't very often get the tech industry right, but last night I stumbled upon Riot On! on BBC4.
Riot On! nailed it for me. It may strictly speaking have been about a mobile entertainment company - its the 'story' of Riot Read More
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The People's Daily Online reports that Chinese authorities have set up a summer camp to cure youngsters addicted to the internet. The report says: "According to research by Shanghai's youth affairs office, those seriously addicted to the web should receive Read More
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