Contribution to an article on the Internet of Things for Management Today. The journalist was looking to discuss ‘the effect it’s likely to have on the commercial world and how businesses will be able to capitalise on it in the future.‘
Category: articles
How Deadpool taught me to love again
Unlikely as it sounds the foul-mouthed, ultra violence of Deadpool has rekindled my love of Cinema-going. – Gone are the local cinemas of my youth, replaced by Cineplex’s with 20 screens, sticky floors, plastic food and a fast-food-chain mentality. I’m sure, like many in my demographic, a trip to the cinema these days consists of whatever […]
Digital assistants: a new brand platform
I was recently asked to contribute 250 words for an article on Virtual Assistants (and how they applied to Brands), in the wake of Mark Zuckerberg’s aim to create his own ‘Jarvis’. Not surprisingly I got carried away, and even edited struggled to keep my thoughts to 500 words! Guardian, I’ll be more succinct next […]
Your Jawbone’s connected to your…
First off, this isn’t a rant on wearables, more a explanation on why I don’t have one* You’d think I would, as every meeting with a tech agency requires at least someone to be smugly wearing a Jawbone (in much the way I cradled the first iPhone in 2007). They are ubiquitously male, slim, media-types. Oh hang on. […]
A bit of love for Open Data and Crowdsourcing
As we marketing agencies look towards maximising a Brands reach or just quantifying Justin Bieber’s latest snaffu through hashtags, there are agents among us seeking to make our lives better by the very same technologies. Nerds for Nature, are ‘bringing together technologists and environmental professionals to collaboratively build awesome tools to understand, protect, and revive […]