Clever Stuff
Igloo 360 Projection Tent
Friday, July 4th, 2008Our friends in Shropshire at Igloo Vision have been busy working away in a shed for a good while creating the most amazing 360 degree projection tent that is ideal for corporate client hospitality events, festivals, marketing and promotion events, sporting events and exhibitions.
They’ve just done Glastonbury and have stuck some footage up on YouTube […]
SEO Bullshit Bingo
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008We work in an industry that is riddled with terminology that even we don’t understand half the time when someone says “Well that meme is something of a paradigm shift”, we nod sagely but really, we haven’t got a clue either. So in celebration of the bollocks that is talked at marketing meetings throughout the […]
Tudor Fruit Musings and The Tree of the Blogosphere
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008When I was looking at this lovely picture in a Search Engine Land article (drawn by Elliance) I noticed that an image of a ripe apple stood for “fresh content” and an image of a bird-pecked apple - for “user comments”. Both types of apples can be found on the Tree of the Blogosphere (see […]
A week with Google
Monday, October 22nd, 2007Last week I was invited to attend two Google seminars in Manchester. The first was a newly launched Google Analytics training session hosted by Google’s Manchester based Agency Relationships Team, the other was a Google Tech Talk aimed at giving Manchester computer science students a ‘look under the bonnet’ of how the worlds favorite search […]
Mel Carson from Microsoft. What’s New in Search
Thursday, October 4th, 2007Focussing initially on how Microsoft could be interacting with “you” throughout the day:
IPTV
Mobile devices
T’internet
Xbox
etc
Talking about AdCentre targeting, all the dayparting stuff and also incremental bidding based on age and gender.
Talking about the “bleach” case studies. Getting traffic that seemed odd for that term. 18-35 males were clicking on the Ads. Turns out that “Bleach” is […]
3D Avatar Games, 3D Avatar Chat and Virtual Worlds
Thursday, July 5th, 2007There seems to be a growing number of graphical and 3D Avatar Chat rooms, and 3D Avatar games and services.
Very popular with teens, who tend to be early adopters of online technology, but it’s becoming increasingly more widespread in mainstream audiences.
Some avatar companies are forming commercial links with shopping sites, for example My Virtual Model […]
Technology for Online Marketing - Twitter and Flickr to Report Events
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007We’ve been experimenting this week with Flickr and Twitter… and although we’re not entirely convinced of the benefit of these tools, it’s been interesting to see what can be achieved.
There are 3rd party tools for example that make mobile updates much easier - ShoZu is a software application for your mobile that allows you to […]
iBar Interective Touch Screen Bar
Friday, March 2nd, 2007We’re no strangers to sitting at the bar so when our friends at MY Design in Shropshire pointed out this video of iBar on YouTube we were very impressed. Check it out, very cool.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaKehq6qsdY