chapter four – my 30s
While going through the pictures of the Obama White House on Flickr I came across a number of pictures of the President at play.
With the new first puppy;
There’s a ton of others, Obama with a basketball tossing a football in the oval office etc. Lots of great pictures. I love this [...]
I don’t usually participate in meme’s, but the meme Jim Byford tagged me with is a pretty good exercise. Not to mention the fact that I haven’t written a post in December yet, I needed to be inspired and Jim’s post did the trick.
A site called Mindapples has started a meme asking [...]
This spoof video shoot for Beyonce’s single ladies from SNL just made me laugh and laugh and laugh. Justin Timberlake is hilarious.
Update: Freakin NBC Universal has claimed copyright and the video’s been taken down on YouTube, it’s still on Vimeo here: http://www.vimeo.com/2275591
Two interesting articles today got me thinking. The first from Ad Age by Martin Lindstrom looked at the return on investment of sponsoring American Idol by Coke, Ford, and AT&T. The second from the conversation starter blog by HBR contributor Sarah Green on Sarah Palin being unauthentic and that leading to her downfall. [...]
Portugal 2008
Originally uploaded by farhanlalji
In Lisbon a couple of weeks ago, we came across this restaurant that did Indian and Italian take away food.
Interesting.
Here’s my question, can you do two things that different – and in my opinion Indian and Italian food is pretty different – and do both well?
My take is you [...]
If someone offered you just ads that you thought were relevant would that interest you? Or do you feel that it’s an invasion of your privacy?
My take is that if someone nails behavioral targeting to a point where the ads I see are all based on my interests and likes and the ads that are [...]
So I’m in Switzerland which is one hour ahead of the UK, 6 hours ahead of the East Coast and 9 hours ahead of the West Coast. None of this would matter if I didn’t need to speak to friends, family and work colleagues in each of these time zones.
I can get by with [...]
Yahoo Ymail adds charing x
Originally uploaded by farhanlalji
We did this campaign for Ymail a couple of weeks ago here in the UK. It was pretty cool to see big Yahoo! ads in train stations. We actually do a lot of this kind of stuff through partners like Vodafone and others.
The question is how [...]
Happy Canada day!!! As it is Canada day today and a glorious day in London and my cousin is visiting from Toronto and I’m hopping on a plane later today to look for flats in Switzerland later today I thought it would be a good idea to talk about places on the blog.
Richard Florida, [...]
I’ve been using twitter for the past few weeks and have really enjoyed the service. I like updating and enjoy reading other peoples updates. I think the SMS integration is sweet and I’m pretty hooked.
Found this video on Vimeo, via blog.andrewparker.net which does a good job explaining what twitter is and why it [...]