I’m sorry it’s been a while. Not sure you missed me like I missed you, but being ill, travelling loads and doing my first speaking engagement in years (at Ecole Hotelier Lausanne, which went really well), not to mention continuing to try and be a better dad and husband have meant that you’ve had [...]
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Some thoughts for 2010
Had an interesting back and forth this morning with my friend Natasja about best of versus prediction lists. I like being nostalgic, but my preference is for thinking forward. Natasja’s point about lists being based on the “now” and not saying anything new, is a good one. But still which trends are [...]
Beyond Google part two, for marketing
Duane over at Kashflow wrote a great blog post about SEO as a marketing strategy over at the Kashflow blog. I couldn’t agree more. His main point is summed up nicely in this bit:
“Whilst free traffic (as opposed to paid-for Adwords) is highly desirable – and we certainly do well from it ourselves [...]
Spending in a downturn
Okay, I get it, we’re in a downturn. A recession or whatever you want to call it. Fine.
The question is what do you do to ensure long term success during a down turn? Our office had an interesting professor from IMD visit us and talk to us about macroeconomic trends and behaviour, basically [...]
Experimenting with business models
Chris Anderson’s written a book about it, Umair Haque’s written lots of manifesto’s and posts about it, and Fred Wilson’s written countless blog posts about it. It is radical and new business models (from free to freemium to radical pricing and value) and it’s use in the digital and real world.
So when [...]
Simple
While having breakfast with some friends, the question “What’s your favourite product from a design point of view of all time”. It was an interesting question and some of the answers were totally linked to people’s backgrounds and personality. My mate N said the book, a product that’s still used hundreds of years [...]
It would take a lot more then 10K to make me use IE8
So @Ev pointed out that Microsoft Australia was doing a marketing campaign where the buried 10K (Aussie dollars I think, but the site doesn’t specify) somewhere and have launched a social media blitz to get people to use… wait for it… wait… Internet Explorer 8!
I have three major gripes with this campaign:
1- Burying 10K has [...]
Internet speed
1 year ago, twitter had few users.
5 years ago, barely anyone was on facebook.
10 years ago, if someone told you they didn’t have an email address, you probably didn’t give it a second thought
10 years ago, AOL, Alta Vista and Yahoo! were the internet.
I used to be thankful that I was born in this age, [...]
Why I heart twitter
1 – Stephen Fry gets a message from James Morley-Smith about his running the London Marathon for the Childhood Eye Cancer Trust, Fry posts a tweet, I go I donate, so too do about 20 other good folks and James is raising his fund-raising target. Along with sending me an email about his son’s [...]
Introduce subscription at the beginning or not at all
I like using Flickr. Infact, I liked using it so much I ponied up 20 USD for a pro account and have topped it up. I also enjoy Facebook, but would I pay 20 USD a year for Facebook now, probably not.
Now if facebook had begun by only introduced a limited function for [...]