Tag Archives: Google

Chrome Fastball

Since Google own YouTube they are free to do things nobody has done before.  Check out the Chrome Fastball game that demonstrates how much faster their browser is. And how fast your brain works too. Tweet This Post
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Art direction and digital

Following on from my series on the David Ogilvy book “Confession of an Advertising Man”, I should be covering the chapter How to write potent copy. But I am skipping to the one after that while waiting for a copywriter colleague who is helping me put something meaningful together. So we will be covering How [...]
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Week of Tweets #13

It’s so easy to miss so much on Twitter. Been in Portugal for the past 3 days for a work conference and it feels like the world has moved on without me. I need a bot to collect the Tweets I would have found interesting based on the ones I’ve clicked previously. Now there is [...]
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Week of Tweets # 9

Another week, another bunch of Tweets cherry picked from the past week or so… RT @LBiLondon: Digital world’s top thinkers share their visions of the future with the BBC from 8 to 19 March http://www.twurl.co.uk/155/ No idea why I wasn’t invited but go check out speakers such as Martha Lane Fox, Steve Ballmer, Eric Schmidt, Jimmy Wales, and others. Great [...]
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Map of the future

While everyone is buzzing about social media the world of online maps has not been snoozing. As we can see from this TED video filmed last week, Blaise Aguera y Arcas (an architect at Microsoft Live Labs, architect of Seadragon, and the co-creator of Photosynth) shows how far they are taking Bing maps. I love the [...]
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2020 Vision

It’s been a fascinating 10 years in digital which began with the burst of a bubble and ended with another one in full expansion, driven by a social media gold rush and the app economy. I’ve posted a few articles here about the trends to watch in 2010 but I thought I’d go even further. [...]
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Week of Tweets #4

This will probably be the last Week of Tweets this year as I won’t be tweeting much during the holidays. So let’s start with… An omnivorous Google is coming. Interview with Marissa Meyer on the Telegraph UK - http://bit.ly/7ijEhM Reading how Google sees the future of search is a little scary and exciting at the same time. Definitely [...]
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It’s a Google world

What’s happening over at Google? They seem to release new products and innovations on an hourly basis. The “fade in” homepage didn’t get much buzz but real time search has… Read more about it here. Then under the radar Google launch an Android app that is quite amazing. Put on your Google goggles (unless you have [...]
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The wwwild frontier

When you think of Google you picture a money making machine powered by ad sales, search words, maps or videos. In fact there is a group within Google called the Creative Lab helping to push the boundaries of what the web can do. Check out their presentation here. The internet has not finished surprising us [...]
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Welcome to the Code War

Bing vs. Google, Facebook vs. Twitter, Microsoft vs. Apple… the tension is increasing on a daily basis these days. It feels awfully similar to the Cold War of the 50s, 60s and 70s. Wikipedia describes it this way. “The Cold War (1945-91) was the continuing state of political conflict, military tension, and economic competition existing after World War [...]
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