Day in day out we’re bombarded with companies telling us how important it is to remove the barriers between us and our information. The iPad, for instance, offers to put the web in the palm of your hands. No browser, no operating system, no hardware, just the web, flopping about in your control, an...
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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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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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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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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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