iPad
On my recent trip to Sydney, I picked up an iPad (around £100 cheaper in Australia given I could claim back the 10% GST as I was taking it out of the country, and it is not subject to the “cost of doing business in the UK” Apple tax). What has amazed me is that everyone [...]
August 5, 2010
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social networking
As this post has been receiving a fair amount of traffic from people searching for “how to vote in the Australian 2010 election” I thought I would provide details on how to vote in the UK for Australian Citizens. If you are an Australian Citizen in the UK wanting to lodge a postal vote for [...]
July 18, 2010
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social media
This coming Friday, 9th July 2010 Reputation Online will be hosting an event at the London Hesperia hotel in Victoria titled “Navigating the online monitoring jungle“. Having recently presented to an agency who said they had “shortlisted” 12 other monitoring companies, I know that this will be of great interest to those who want to start on [...]
July 7, 2010
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social media
On July 14th between 4-6pm Visible Technologies is sponsoring an event at the IAB in London looking at the “buzz about the social media buzz”. The team at brand-e.biz has assembled a fantastic line-up including Chris Clarke, Global Chief Creative Officer, LBi on leveraging social media for the Conservative Party Robin Grant of We Are [...]
June 21, 2010
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social media
By now everyone knows that news that on the weekend, the ITV High Definition (HD) channel missed the first goal scored by England due to an “interruption”. it was actually an ad. While many people have (rightly) beaten up ITV and their commercial approach, the incident points more towards how things will look “beyond advertising” [...]
June 15, 2010
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social media
It must be a slow news week, because a recent Daily Mail article by Jason Lewis titled How ‘BT Sarah’ spies on your Facebook account: secret new software allows BT and other firms to trawl internet looking for disgruntled customers seems to suggest that companies that are actively seeking our customer feedback on public websites [...]
June 6, 2010
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mobile
I received a note via LinkedIn from an old contact Theresa Mascarenhas about a new iPhone app she has developed for Children called “When I Grow Up (Vol.1)”. It sounds like a great use for the iPhone platform so I thought I would promote it here. When I Grow Up is the first personalized children’s [...]
June 6, 2010
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mobile
IAB to drive research in the mobile industry with appointment of Alex Kozloff as dedicated mobile manager The Internet Advertising Bureau – the trade body for online and mobile advertising – has appointed Alex Kozloff, former media research manager at Unanimis, to expand its mobile research and education programme in the UK. Working alongside head [...]
May 23, 2010
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social media
It’s nice to be able to welcome the rest of the Visible crew to the UK. WPP Company Establishes European Headquarters to Support Growing Demand for Comprehensive Social Media Monitoring Solutions Visible Technologies, a leading provider of social media monitoring and engagement solutions, today established its European headquarters in London. This will enable Visible Technologies [...]
May 18, 2010
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