We’re on the move
From Monday 25th Apr we’ll be in our new home, 200 yards from our old home! We’re going for a cooler space which we can better utilise. A big thanks to Lee and Susie, our on call rent-a-muscle, who have already moved all our stuff except the bare minimum. We’re all sat on boxes with [...]
Social media no longer sexy
Ask any traditional marketer about her potential marketplace and she’ll bark on about demographics, age, gender and various other segmentation approaches. In fact, most marketing departments would be a little stuck without their (fixed) demographic profiling. We are starting to see a change though. As likeminded people gather around fellow likers communities have been springing [...]
Social media at a personal level
Shamelessly lifted and edited from blog.hubspot.com is an excellent article illustrating the meteoric rise to fame that Justin Bieber has seen in the last year. Well worth reading the full version but if you can’t be arsed then I’ve summarized it here. Justin Bieber is the most searched for celebrity on the internet and has [...]
Tactile web?
The absence of many of the senses (touch, smell, taste and largely, hear) when interacting with t’interweb is a challenge that at some point needs addressing if we are to replicate the real world into the virtual world. Lots of studies have shown that these senses greatly influence our decisions and if virtual environments seek [...]
Farming in a virtual future
Image via Wikipedia China is seeing the rise of online “Gold Farming” This is the practice of hiring a group of mainly poor kids to ply their way through the myriad of online games (Everquake, World of Warcraft et al) collecting things of value to other gamers such as gold, potions, weapons etc. These items [...]
Kiva, changing the world, price £16
Please do take a look at www.kiva.org, it’s a really clever idea that allows people to loan small amounts of money to budding entrepreneurs, no more than £16 ($25) in the third world. These small amounts, aggregated, provide (typically) no more than a few thousand dollars to micro-business people to start small ventures designed to [...]
First FREE space for creative minds in Yorkshire
From September 1st, Connected are throwing their doors open to any creative types What? Yup, we’re opening 1,500 sq ft of cool office space to anyone who wants to use it We already have quite a few friends and clients who use our office space and we thought, “to hell with, invite everyone In” Great [...]
Shiny, unhappy people
I shamelessly stole this title from an illuminating article in New Scientist (2739/40/41) in which the author talks about the risk of modern man being enslaved by gadgets, technology and (demanding) services. I am old enough (44) to remember a time before mobile phones, email, Facebook and Gowalla – it now seems odd if I [...]
This week: beard week
Just for a laugh this week, we’ve decided to have a ‘beard week’, so no shaving from last Friday to see who can come up with the best beard – we’ll have marks for colour, length, style, funniest looking and density. We’ll let you know the outcome! Next week is vinyl week, followed by old [...]
That takes the biscuit
Some of the really clever stuff we do here is quite difficult to explain, and technologically, even more difficult. We are _not_ web designers. Sometimes whilst down the pub, I get asked what I do. Depending who I’m talking to and in what context, it’s sometimes easier – and a bit of fun – to [...]
