September 2010
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“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you...”
– ~ Mark Twain
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WatchWhat agencies can learn from tech start-ups, and vice-versa.
Lessons from Silicon Valley
Prove your concept
Drive early adoption
Marketing without media
Structure for innovation
Explore new products
Lessons from Madison Avenue
Make branding top priority
Advertising works
Build research into your DNA
Get pithy
Marketing leadership
Of which, Silicon Valley seems to have more pertinent...
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Instant Hits & Wonders
Blergh. Who knew. After Google’s big announcement of Google Instant, almost instantly, we got copycat applications.
YouTube Instant - Created by Feross Aboukhadijeh, an intern at Facebook, in 3 hours++. Later, YouTube’s boss offered him a job via Twitter.
iTunes Instant - Created by 15-year-old (!!!) Stephen Ou in less than 3 hours—or so he claims.
Instant Maps - not bothered to...
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“They say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a...”
– Banksy, in an exclusive interview with The Sun
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WatchI’ve been catching up on the Google-Verizon proposal and net neutrality debate ever since a friend announced that he was ditching Gmail because Google is behaving like a two-faced monster.
Since attending a talk called “The unofficial history of the Internet” by Hardesh Singh, I learnt that the Internet’s infrastructure was purposely built to be “dumb” and...
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