Entries from February 2008

The Future of Digital Media, apparently.

February 13th, 2008 by Ben · 3 Comments
In Media · New technologies · Stories

At least, the future according to the voice of The Count from Sesame Street:

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Facebook is the Hotel California

February 12th, 2008 by Dan O'Connor · 1 Comment
In Stories

Concerned citizens of the interwebs and fans of the overreaching analogy should check out this story at the New York Times.
Facebook, not content with telling all your friends about everything you buy, now wants to love you for ever and ever and ever.
Seriously, Zuckerberg, your college project is now officially just creepy.

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Sign of The Times

February 6th, 2008 by Ben · 2 Comments
In Stories

I recently followed a link to an article from The Times, to find the day’s newspaper and old archive copies displayed online in the form of an e-paper. The interface is really tasty: highly functional while remaining easy to understand. And it looks quite nice.

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The Tipping Point, tipped over?

February 4th, 2008 by Dan O'Connor · 1 Comment
In Stories

The excellent Sean Lawson points me in the direction of this article from Fast Company magazine, “Is The Tipping Point Toast?”  (a question not to be confused with that raised in last month’s Apetizer’s Digest, “Any Top Tips on Toast Points?”), exploring the marketing heresy that maybe, just maybe, there’s no such thing as superinfluential [...]

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