Year: 2014
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One click ordering from Amazon is coming into your homes
Amazon’s “one click” ordering is well know in online shopping, providing the easiest possible way to buy something from Amazon. But Amazon are taking it a step further with a physical “dash” button you can place in your home to instantly order something. The imagined future of cupboards and fridges ordering your groceries for you really isn’t far…
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Cloud computing has a way to go
I’m sure there is someone, somewhere, working on an app which can do this.
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Apps that are good for your health – the NHS app library
I was signposted to the NHS App Library today by @danslee via @healthybrum. It’s been around for 18 months and is a safe and trusted collection of apps to help you manage your health. Each app is reviewed to make sure that: “they are relevant to people living in England, comply with data protection laws…
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Umbrellas up, heads down – how to still get your message seen
East Asian agency Ogilvy Asia have created a campain to promote holidays to Hong Kong residents as they battle through the rainy season. [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/94505970[/vimeo] I’m not sure how durable the water repelant is, but it’s certainly an innovative idea. Found at www.springwise.com/holiday-ads-rain/
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Robert Watson-Watt – inventor of radar and early agile practitioner
A friend and ex colleague has recently returned to blogging with aplomb, posting a piece about being a recovering perfectionist. It made me think about a recent BBC drama Castles in the Sky, telling the story of Robert Watson-Watt’s development of the first radar in WWII. An inventive scientist who pulled together an unlikely team…
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Being a digital human – a fear to break the magic
I’ve been meaning to recommend the BBC Digital Human radio show and podcast since my wife found it a few weeks ago and it’s one of those programs that I wish I’d found sooner. Thankfully the BBC have a full podcast archive and a tumblr blog so you don’t miss out. The program looks at how at how…
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Don’t just show your audience the highlights; put them in the story.
Red Bull is not a typical company. Most people think it’s a company which makes an energy drink and sponsors lots of adventure sports, and they’re half right. What Red Bull excel at is marketing. They don’t sponsor lots of sports, they own lots of sports. They don’t sponsor an F1 team, they own an F1…
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App gives you healthy options of supermarket food
It’s been around for a while now, but I discovered a new app at the weekend which tell you about healthy alternatives to food you’d find at the supermaket. Scan an item from your supermarket (it has info on more than 90 products) using the built in barcode scanner and it looks up the total fat,…
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Annoying nuisance noisy neighbours
I’ve been working on a working on a project recently which helps people report noisy antisocial behaviour so was interested to read the results of a recent survey that 25% of people have had a problem with nuisance neighbours in the past year, and the report highlights that 64% didn’t know how to get help and advice…
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Business jargon shows what people would be rather be doing
Liz Ryan has written a piece at forbes.com titled “What Business Jargon Says About Us“. I found two things particularly interesting. Firstly the fact that most jargon relates to sport, war and cars: Over time it occurred to me that these activities — playing or watching sports, fighting enemies and driving cars as fast as…