Tag Archives: iPad

iWant an iPad

Been on vacation for most of July so apologies for being so quiet. At my hotel in Greece there were two public PCs connected to the web. Unfortunately they were being hogged by teenagers on Facebook. Mostly kids from the Czech republic. Sitting waiting for them to get bored and let me use the computer [...]
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Week of Tweets #14

Welcome to another edition of my regular roundup of favourite tweets. Instant advertising… NYTimes: An Ad Engine to Put ‘Mad Men’ Out of Business http://nyti.ms/by4u4L How automated can advertising get? This article covers some new developments in banner advertising. Great idea… RT @intersphere: Condom brand uses#Chatroulette to create an HIV awareness campaignhttp://bit.ly/a7g4vl Hope the video below doesn’t offend anyone. [...]
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Times change

Pretty amazing demo of the new Time magazine for iPad. Nobody will ever be able to say they are “relaxing with a magazine”. It all looks exhausting! Tweet This Post
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iPad 2015

With people queuing for the new iPad and Apple surpassing Microsoft as the most valuable technology company, you have to wonder where things will go in the future for a company many thought was dead in the water 15 years ago. If you look at the first generation iPod from 2001 and compare it to [...]
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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 #12

It’s been a bit quiet for me on the Twitter front in between Queen’s Day in Amsterdam, other public holidays and interesting projects to distract me. But here are some of the most interesting things that have been tweeted by me these past couple of weeks… Cool idea for promos – RT @simonmainwaring: Coke cans as [...]
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Footpad

Nike have been the pioneers of branded utility and now with the iPad Nike Football + Team Edition is providing footballers across the world with an app that will boost their skills. To fit into their mantra of ‘we don’t do advertising, we do cool stuff’, this is an ipad training app for coaches/players to improve [...]
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The Age of Hyperactivity

It doesn’t seem that long ago when we would go along to a client to try and sell them on the idea that customers can now interact with them thanks to this amazing new thing called the internet (it was even spelled with a capital I in those days). Fast-forward 10 years and now brands [...]
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Week of Tweets #11

It’s time to take a walk down memory lane again and see what’s been most interesting in my Twitter feed in the past week (more like 3 weeks). Here they come… RT @BBHLabs: Introducing BBH’s Very First iPad App, for Cadillac – a new @BBHLabs post:http://j.mp/a5EwHr Only a few weeks old now and the iPad continues to [...]
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Week of Tweets #10

Oops, slipped a little in my weekly updates from the world of Twitter. It does mean that I have a few weeks to pick from so this should be good… Interesting article – TV + Twitter @time: http://bit.ly/cdrmrW Seems like Twitter is the new water cooler. But rather than “did you see that show” it is “I’m [...]
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