LinkedIn x Apps = Better

At a recent First Tuesday someone in the audience asked Kevin Eyres, European MD of LinkedIn, “what’s the value in taking the time to be on business networking site?”  Kevin’s response was that LinkedIn were looking to move towards being a place where people do business rather than just add connections, an answer that [...]

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The future of NFC is delicious

Plucked from Victoria Richardson’s Twitter feed (Proxama’s Head of Marketing), here’s a link to Nokia Phone Blog’s article on MIT’s recent NFC study. A lot of the concepts I mentioned in my last post are there, with the exception of the NFC-built sandwich. YUM YUM

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NFC, a realistic future tech

NFC tech has been cropping up on my radar a lot more recently, so I rocked along to the most recent Mobile Monday (if you’re not signed up and have an interest in mobile, sort yourself out) last week to see Proxama and o2 talk about the technology and its applications. There are tons [...]

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Did you hear the one about the chocolate fingers, arf arf

Twix have got a ‘Get the Girl’ interactive game going on their main site at the moment. It’s buggy (almost every time I play, it freezes at some stage) and a wee bit too cheesy, but in spite of that I can’t help but like it. It involves your Twix-munching “Joe Sixpack” (thanks [...]

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Putting Animals in Positions of Power is Key to Revitalising the Global Economy

I was watching clips from last night’s Colbert Report and he mentioned Tama the Stationmaster cat, a feline who has apparently boosted the local economy around the the Japanese rural town of Kinokawa to the tune of over $10 million in 2007 by attracting tourists through the previously infrequently used Kishigawa line. I remember [...]

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