Category: Innovation

  • I like to think of Friendbook not Facefeed

    Surprise news last night was Facebook’s acquisition of Friendfeed. Facebook – a giant among social networks – has grabbed the comparatively-tiny Friendfeed content-sharing service (which has just 12 employees) as the means to accelerate Facebook’s product development plans, according to…

  • What’s for lunch today, Twitter?

    An imaginative use of Twitter. Somerset County Council in southwest England is set to use Twitter to tell parents what’s on the lunch menu for their children at school. This idea is part of the Council’s My School Lunch initiative,…

  • Augmented reality: overlay your world

    Is augmented reality the Next Big Thing, asks AdWeek. […] The biggest hope for the field moving into useful, mainstream applications is in the mobile arena. Acrossair created a mini sensation with the release of a video clip showing its…

  • Twitter marketing: genuine works

    It’s advertising du jour in the movie and television business to use banner ads and other eyeball-catching imagery on the web to promote your new movie or TV series. Websites, too, employing all the latest audio-visual and social media magic…

  • 8 tips on giving away books for free

    Wired Magazine Editor Chris Anderson‘s new book Free is about the free economy, and he’s walking the talk by making multiple versions of the book – in print, online, and audio – available for free. I’ve got a copy of…