Monthly Archives: February 2007

Yacco Blogs

Posted on 27/02/2007 by Iain

Nice to see that Yacco, Poke‘s new creative director, has started blogging. It’s early days, but I’m sure there’s going to be some nice things on there… I made a NetVibes tab that contains all of the Poke bloggers in … Continue reading →

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I’m In New York

Posted on 25/02/2007 by Iain

And it looks a little something like this… I’m going to Flickr my photos when I get back, but I couldn’t resisit posting this one. I shall call it simply ‘Irony’.

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Arcade Reality

Posted on 21/02/2007 by Iain

This is very cool. I want to see more things that use phone camera’s like this. I don’t know why, I just do.

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Evil Recruiters

Posted on 21/02/2007 by Iain

Not all recruiters are evil, but lots of them are. In my inbox today I’ve got 3 unsolicited candidates from cold-mailing (i.e. spamming) recruiters. This is bad. And it’s unfortunate for the candidates as I’m not even going to look … Continue reading →

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First UGC Win In The Bag

Posted on 21/02/2007 by Iain

Well the evil plot to pillage the world of UCG has begun. Nothing major, just 2 tickets to a club-night on Saturday. But worth 30 quid. Not bad for 5 minutes spent writing a 50 word response to something… Interestingly … Continue reading →

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QR Codes – There’s More

Posted on 21/02/2007 by Iain

Following earlier posts about QR codes (or Semacodes) – the barcodes that your phone can translate into cool stuff – thought I ought to post this from the MIT Advertising Lab on uses for QR codes. I can’t help but … Continue reading →

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Sorry IMified Chaps

Posted on 20/02/2007 by Iain

Dave from IMified left a comment that the message I got was an AOL limit thing. And as such is not their fault. Fair play to them. As he indicates running a service on top of someone elses platform is … Continue reading →

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IMified

Posted on 20/02/2007 by Iain

Now this sounds good – IMified! I like Instant Messenger. I like the fact that IM clients are lightweight applications that can be accessed anywhere (as long as I’ve got mobile or web access). And the promise of opening up … Continue reading →

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ZeFrank on Waves

Posted on 20/02/2007 by Iain

I liked this. I’ve been thinking about the notion of ‘surfing’ a bit recently, and this just felt good…

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This Makes Me So Happy

Posted on 20/02/2007 by Iain

Over at Pink Air Jeffre talks about the ‘kick off’ meeting. The dreaded meeting after the business has been won. The thrill of the chase has gone. The hunt is over. And the carcuss is rotting before your eyes… In … Continue reading →

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