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February 18th, 2008 by admin
Our highly respected Senior Consultant has stressed that it is important to see and be seen in the digital firmament.
With that in mind, I’ve been putting it about a bit. Here’s an awesome piece of commentary on why so many tech brands are going in for rebrands at the moment. Brace yourself and then click on the tiny image for the full-force piece:
Expect to see me on Newsnight soon.
Incidentally, if you are looking for spokespeople (Newsnight or otherwise) do just get in touch.
Now, there’s a new-ish venture in beta called mydeco. The latest venture from Brent Hoberman, one of the two responsible for lastminute.com, boldly claims that it will “revolutionise the way you shop for your home”.
Rory Cellan-Jones on his BBC blog was skeptical about it’s chances of success and I’m probably of the same mind. Certainly the rise in interest in buying homes (Location Location), building homes (Grand Designs), selling homes (Property Ladder), decorating homes (Changing Rooms) etc. is unmistakable but I just can’t get past the interface of the site.
Strange logo placement (odd white space), mixed bag typography (too many faces in too many sizes) , unclear hierarchy and possibly non-existent grid system coupled with trying to offer quite a lot of functionality and content makes it all overwhelming. For me at least.
Perhaps as the community element starts to kick in then it will take off and the ‘realistic 3D tool’ will have an opportunity to deliver.
At the moment, if one has any attention to detail then purchasing a table or chair from a ‘Second Life’ quality rendering seems unlikely.
Having said all that, any new venture deserves a fair crack of the whip so fingers crossed for mydeco. Especially in light of the current, slightly terrifying global financial climate.
Korea have received the first combined USB travel/creditcard/onlinecard device. Looking like a memory stick it’s provides ‘over the air’ payments in physical locations, travel authorisation (Oyster) as well as handling online transactions without having to type in card details.
It’s not a bad looking thing.
Why is any rollout of similar technology here taking such an awfully long time?
Found by The Raw Feed from ETNEWS
This can be a real pain. What are the options?
- burn to CD/DVD, put in post. Yawn.
- use yousendit or similar public FTP services. Up speed can be a bit painful.
- upload to your own server, download from server. Do I really have enough server space to spare. A few large files and it’s stuffed.
Latest trials are using Skype for file transfers and the Mozilla plug-in AllPeers for file sharing.
Skype was tested last night. Up speeds hovered around the 35-50 mark and, left for a number of hours, there was no drop-out. So a successful first trial. Will be doing that again. Especially as I’m moving to a faster broadband service soon (20Mb).
AllPeers next. I know you can’t wait for that one.
And then shares it with his colleagues. Nice one.
The segments weren’t any larger than normal though. Hmmm.
This site takes a classic text on typography and shows how its principles can be applied to websites using CSS, including looking forward to future CSS3 updates. An excellent read from someone who is obviously knowledgable in both typography and up to date web design.
The communications universe (physical and virtual) is awash with predictions for the coming year. Unsurprisingly, visionaries across the globe are thinking that this the year where social networking goes ballistic.
What an insight.
Anyhow, perhaps it could also be the backlash year? Snubster, Enemybook and Hatebook all thnk so. (a little bit negative perhaps? I find the name Hatebook to be mildly offensive.)
