chapter four – my 30s
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 works: [...]
More new years shenanigans Originally uploaded by farhanlalji I finally managed to upgrade to the latest version of WordPress and along with the upgrade decided to give the blog a new look and feel. As a consequence my layout no longer breaks when I embed videos, phew. I think it was long overdue. Let me [...]
Edit you’re Flickr photo’s on Flickr!Flickr’s just released an edit your photo feature directly on Flickr feature. They’re using Picnik, which I used earlier for cropping, reshaping, sizing, and basic filtering. It’s very cool and it’s sweet to see Flickr’s pulling in this feature. I did a quick sepia jobbo on my Ikea billboard pic [...]
Random guy hanging out with Jesus Originally uploaded by farhanlalji London is full of guys with bull horns and loud speakers telling you to embrace Jesus or be condemned to a life of hell… or whatever. So I was amused and impressed to see this random gent hanging out in his fluorescent jacket carrying a [...]
I loved the Arsenio Hall show back in the day, as an homage to the show I’m going to start a regular weekly feature on this blog that was first launched on the show “things that make me go hmmm….” 1 – Why aren’t people making a bigger deal of the Wifi deal on the [...]
India celebrations in trafalgar square Originally uploaded by farhanlalji On my way home yesterday I passed by trafalgar square and was surprised to see a DJ, this big Indian movie like poster and a ton of people just hanging out, chilling, enjoying the music. It was part of the Mayor’s Trafalgar Square Festival. Only in [...]