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What is Google Findy?

20/04/2010
By Max Tatton-Brown
What is Google Findy?

Google’s little secret I’m not going to lie to you, I don’t have much more to ask here than the question: What is Google Findy? I stumbled upon it during a recent search but strangely it isn’t on Google, Bing or Yahoo anywhere.  Perhaps it’s just linked to The Scottish Business and Entrepreneurship Awards but that seems...
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Spot If I am right about the future of Spotify.

19/04/2010
By Max Tatton-Brown
Spot If I am right about the future of Spotify.

As usual, the writing of this post was accelerated due to current events, namely the excellent new version of Spotify’s iPhone app. But that’s not actually what I want to talk about today. In fact, there’s a much bigger picture here involving the brutally buzzwordised concept of “music-as-a-service”.
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Why I’ll always have time for timesheets

14/04/2010
By Max Tatton-Brown
Why I’ll always have time for timesheets

Graham Goodkind’s recent piece on why PR timesheets should be scrapped seems to over-simplify the issue.  Certainly, they’re an imperfect system as demonstrated by his stats showing how they are inevitably filled out with less than ideal accuracy. But so’s democracy – as Churchill famously stated, it’s the “worst form of Government except for...
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Apple’s Razor Sharp New Direction

12/04/2010
By Max Tatton-Brown
Apple’s Razor Sharp New Direction

With the iPad, Apple has clearly slashed its usual profit margins and priced the device to sell. I think this marks a fascinating shift for the company toward the classic ‘razor blade‘ strategy of providing a cheap platform to enable a steady revenue stream.  The announcement of iAd only confirms this, introducing yet another...
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Maxicom – AxiCom = MaxTB at Wildfire

12/03/2010
By Max Tatton-Brown
Maxicom – AxiCom = MaxTB at Wildfire

Hello anonymous blinking observers. It’s time to announce that as of Monday the 15th of March, I’ll be leaving my role at the magnificent global PR powerhouse AxiCom to join the team of thrusting young things at Wildfire PR. Raising the Temperature You may be familiar with the agency online via such noted Wildfirers as DannyWhatmough...
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