February 2012
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'Crap' in the hat? Dr. Seuss rolling in his...
Oh dear. Budget cuts I guess…
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'Bringing balance to the (Mobile) force'. Cheaper...
via smh.com.au Well, without saying I told you so, Android continues to grow, and develop at a rapid pace. As said before I use multiple devices on multiple platforms, so no iHating (well only really towards iTunes) but balance and choice are incredibly vital to growth. All to often in all walks of life, when absolute power is given to one, it corrupts and skews development for others. ...
'Out of the box'. Customer Experience Of A Mobile...
via vimeo.com Not quite technologically minded? Got an older relative to whom this worlds gadgets are all too much? This is a great way to set up a phone and deliver excellent marketing, customer experience, design and brand affiliation. Shame it’s probably all lost when it comes to apps and using the device for older people, still off a to an excellent start here!
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Adidas Trainers...with wings.
Perhaps sponsored design by redbull? : )
January 2012
Give us a kiss
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SOPA Breaks The Internet. Educate Yourself & Save...
via vimeo.com SOPA. Up to speed yet? All familiar with the latest slice in moronic out of touch law, attempting to be pushed through the US government by the ‘Entertainment industry’? Probably not, but you should be… In short=bad. This short video above may help, or if your feeling more whimsical, let the Oatmeal explain, via a horny Koala.
Lunch at Fandango
Taken at Fandango
Looking up...
Taken at Waikiki Dive Center
December 2011
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Why Mobile Apps Must Die. Yes Really...
I use multiple mobile devices on Apple & Android, and believe really strongly in a fair and balanced approach for customer experience. Why? Because we have evolved (partially) from the design for one browser mentality, and why would we waste time going back to that awful closed thinking? Mobile is at a huge evolutionary step, and in all aspects of life we have to deal with other fanboys such...
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Beautiful.
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Wishing You The Very Best For The Zombie Season...
Do the right thing, make sure your little ones are provided with heavy artillery this holiday season. Toodle pip! Related posts; The Walking Dead, begins to walk…
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Google Turns Telstra NumptyLand Into AndroidLand.
Many years ago Telstra really thought they were ‘all that’ (and a bag of xxxl potato chips). They believed Sensis, their woeful search engine, (now in 2011 powered by Google. Ah sweet irony.) was what Australian’s wanted. Sensis was better, faster, and that Android was to just be ignored. They then put all their eggs in the iOs/Apple basket, and as usual, another not so smart...
November 2011
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How Amazon Became the World's Largest Online...
via mashable.com My favourite store, and one that just works as the customer generally wan’t it to and with good prices. Sadly still limited product availability in Australia from Amazon sites, but rumours earlier this year of a dedicated site, look likely that will change for us, and I for one welcome and end to rip off bricks and mortar retail prices. 137 million customers per...
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Microsoft Windows 7 Phone Marketing. Live on stage...
via mashable.com Mashable in slightly suck up mode to MS I think here. ‘Wild event?’ Windows 7 phones are a solid product, and it’s no Vista, but can’t help seeing how ruined this is by the very staged marketing video. The cheap dig at Android with ‘we are not robot’s’ also does them no favours. Likewise Free pizza and a splash event in NYC doth...
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DJ Pogo Weaves More Of His Magic, This Time on...
Another excellent, and as always touching video/audio remix by talented Australian resident DJ Pogo who this time weaves magic on Spielberg’s A.I More on Pogo
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Adobe Will Discontinue Flash Player For Mobile,...
via phandroid.com Finally some common sense, and something we can thank Steve Jobs for, by simply standing up and saying no… Read on for more
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Breaking Bad. Finally began watching what has to...
Life gets a little more in perspective when you see it through Walter’s eyes… a highly recommended show
October 2011
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Online Check Out...In Real Life.
This is exactly how many organisations treat our customers today. Scarily accurate.
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Crash Your Party by @Karmin. Excellent Cover Group...
via soundcloud.com The awesomely talented Karmin who have done some amazing R&B and Hip Hop covers on YouTube to millions of viewers, get their first ‘real’ single release and cool little pop tune it is. http://soundcloud.com/karmin/crash-your-party Haven’t heard of them? Start with thier 42 million viewed ‘Look At Me Now’ - A Chris Brown ft. Lil Wayne,...
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'This painting is not available in your country'....
via vimeo.com Just over a year ago I had a rant about silly money grabbing region restrictions we face, despite us being a connected global world. This video is not available in your region, this application is not available, this game is not available, the list goes on. And all about making you pay more for something that costs less elsewhere. So I was really pleased to hear from the...
September 2011
Pimpmobile?
Taken at The Crimean
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Copygram. Get All Your Instagram Photo Filter-y...
Love Instagr.am? I do too, but getting photos off your phone and instragrams non existent web site is a bit of a pain. You can use extragram to view them, or http://www.ifttt.com for copying new photos to say a dropbox or flickr account, but a simple way to get older images is using copygr.am. Just sign in with your instagram account and your on your way to download all your photo filter-y...
Albert Park Driving Range
Taken at Albert Park Driving Range
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The Quiet Place. We All Need Some Of This...
From amitaytweeto.com Beautiful. Via the always awesome Darth Ambiguous
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The Battle for App Store Dominance, Star Wars...
via pcmag.com The ‘Droid Star’ is a coming.
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Freddie Google Doodle is just fantastic...
via google.com Visit Google.com today and watch the amazing tribute to Freddie Mercury. With some ingenious eight bit animation this is seriously well done! (Actually reminds me of Shaun of The Dead too!)
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The Future of Mobile is Multi-Platform; Australia...
via 3rdsense.com Android handsets now account for 30% of Australian smart phone sales to iPhone’s 40%. (IDC survey) So the divide is becoming less and less, and competition is a very good thing for consumers and customers. The screen shot above shows the dual options business are now taking as having iPhone only options, is beginning to offer a kind of ‘older generation/not quite getting...
August 2011
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Ignorance Is 'i-bliss'? Android's 42% Dominance Of...
Image from nashvillescene.com Despite Androids now 5.4% growth this quarter and now 42% dominance of the US smart phone market, (Apple 1% growth and 27% share of market) still many choose to remain deeply myopic in Europe and Australia to Androids viral growth. Ignorance is ‘i-bliss’? Even ignoring those childish and bitter mobile patent wars from Apple & Microsoft...
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Are your Web site/app users S.T.U.P.I.D?
via boxesandarrows.com A colleague shared an article on the excellent boxes and arrows site which I had not been on in years, and I discovered an excellent article. Written by Stephen Turbek, he points out some obvious, but oh so easily missed key design items that all site and app designers need to remember. Good point on the Apple iPhone ads that of course, also trained generations...
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Great Scott! Buenos Aires, Argentina? 2011?
What is this video for? So far so viral but seems Doc Emmet brown is back, from y’know the future… Part IV? Bring it! More likely to tie in with this…
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Mark Vidler of Go Home Productions. Excellent &...
via gohomeproductions.co.uk The ever excellent mashup talent that is Mark Vidler, yet again offers free tracks via his new release the ‘Super Bastard EP’. Check out just one of the tracks and then head to his downloads page for more freebies…
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Charlie Brooker on how to prevent more riots &...
In the smouldering aftermath, some politicians, keen to shift the focus from social inequality, have muttered darkly about the role of BlackBerry Messenger, Twitter and Facebook – frightening new technologies that, like the pen and the human mouth, allow citizens to swap messages with one another. via guardian.co.uk As usual, sharp wit and crystal clear observation from Charlie. Particularly...
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RMIT University is refreshing, mobile and open...
I rarely ever talk about my work here on this site, but we’ve undertaken some major work recently that I think is worth sharing. It’s been three years since we took a redesign at RMIT, and in this case, we’ve only taken a refresh rather than a full redesign so far. Simply put, most web sites these days are incredibly hard work to change. As businesses realise the importance...
July 2011
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Owls have their own social networking site it...
via b3ta.com
Enchantment under the sea! Ade & Skye's wedding
Taken at Melbourne Aquarium
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I'm buying shares in Oatmeal airlines. Oh yes.
via theoatmeal.com “You get to fly the plane, while lingerie models feed you jellybeans and sing merry songs about your privates”. Read more
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7-Up gets a rebranding. No Cool Spot or Fido Dido...
via adbrandetc.com 7-Up got a makeover in the last few months which I missed and it’s looking good. Beautiful logo design, and am not missing the angled 7 of old. Apparently no rebranding happening in the USA which is odd, being the giant soda guzzlers the market is, but it turns out in the USA the brand is owned by Dr.Pepper Snapple Group, and all over the rest of the world we have...
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Like vs Plus. Finish him!!
via likevsplus.com A cool little site letting you pick your social button. Click the image to fight! I’ve not had as much time as I would have liked to dive deeper in to Google + over the past week, but every day it just keeps getting better. Maybe it’s the smaller crowd, maybe it’s the G+ geeks like myself, but this service IS your social network. Not Farcebook’s ad...
Make mine a dirty granny. No werthers thanks
Taken at Cookie
June 2011
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Ah, old media how I occasionally miss thee...
via img143.imageshack.us Look in October 1993 this was ‘hot’ and ‘risque’. Ignorance it appears was bliss…good times.
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Trash The Devil iTunes and Worship Spotify...
via sabotagetimes.com A great rant about the devil incarnate, iTunes. The blood sucking, soul destroying, worthless piece of corporate disney-fied, cack your limbered with using if you have an ‘i’ device. So nice to hear someone with even more venom for the turd of a program than me! : ) And especially worth reading just for iTunes is a vicious bunny-boiling bitch, going...
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Cheap Flights! Hilarious.Yes crap marketers we...
via youtube.com Genius. Shame on you Ryan Air, Tiger Airways…and the list goes on…
May 2011
Hoe time!
Taken at Belgian Beer Cafe Eureka