Entries from February 2007

Joost.com Invitations

February 28th, 2007 by Mat Morrison · 35 Comments
In New technologies · Stories

I’ve got a couple of Joost Beta invitations going spare.
Quiz?
Edit: 21 April
If you want me to send invitations on to you, I’m afraid that you’ll have to give me your real first and last names (as well as an accurate email address). The Joost invitation engine insists on both.
Cherry & Didgiman - I’m afraid [...]

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Latest Japanese Cellphones Will Feature Deep-Fat Fryer

February 28th, 2007 by Dan O'Connor · No Comments
In Brand innovation · Customer experience · Stories · Tool development

The latest development in the inexorable convergence of all technologies into a single, faintly sinister biotech wetware unit that we will likely have implanted into our retinas by unfeeling bureaucrats at the “Human Upgrade Center” is the news from Japan that shortly you will be able to pay for your Big Macs and Chicken McNuggets [...]

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Babies on Rockets or Beware What You Say on Forums

February 27th, 2007 by Dan O'Connor · 2 Comments
In Blogging · Social media · Stories

Highly unliekly childcare news here at RMM. The childcare ‘expert’ (sorry, but beyond feeding the little brats, what else is there to it, eh?) Gina Ford, is demanding a public apology from the owners of the mumsnet website due to comments made on their forum. The comments, mostly contesting Ford’s obsession with ‘routine’, included the [...]

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Ill-Applied Historical Analogies #246 in a series: ‘Digital Maoism’

February 22nd, 2007 by Dan O'Connor · 10 Comments
In Blogging · Networking · New technologies · Social media · Stories

Jaron Lanier has beheld Web 2.0 and lo, he is not best pleased.
Lanier, best known for popularising VR in the 80s (and looking like an even less attractive version of Mick Hucknall than Mick Hucknall - terrifying proof of which after the jump), fears that in the rush to long march to the collective generation/management [...]

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Digital Social Networking Will Save You From Terrorism (and Other News from the States)

February 16th, 2007 by Dan O'Connor · 7 Comments
In Stories

And you thought facebook was just a novel way for twelve year old kids in Wyoming to bully each other…
Brains at the University of Maryland are proposing a network of Community Response Grids in partnership with the emergency services. According to one of the brains involved, Professor Shneiderman, traditional telephone reporting systems get overwhelmed during [...]

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