A few things we can learn from fashion & Victor Churchill
We can all learn a lot from Fashion. Fashion brands exist based on their ability to connect with consumers emotionally. Fashion has nothing to do with price and more about marketing than product, it has everything to do with the need to associate at an emotional level.
As the saying goes, people “do not buy the soda”, [...]
Foursquare launches new tool for business.
Foursquare, a location-based social network, plans to distribute a free analytics tool and dashboard in the coming weeks that will give business owners access to a range of information and statistics about visitors to their establishments.
Tristan Walker, director of business development at Foursquare, said that the latest features were intended to help local merchants run [...]
The Legion of Extraordinary Dancers | by TED
Lets transcend into a place, less about business, and more about evolution or more to the point, the evolution of dance. The LXD (the Legion of Extraordinary Dancers) electrify the TED2010 stage with an emerging global street-dance culture, revved up by the Internet. In a preview of Jon Chu’s upcoming Web series, this astonishing troupe [...]
Dan Ilic on The Future of New Media with Reuters, New York Times & Al Jazeera
Dan Ilic sits down with three executives from some of the world’s biggest media outlets to have a chat about the future of their business. Moeed Ahmad, Head of New Media for Al Jazeera, Chief Scientist at Reuters, Nic Fulton, and the CTO of the New York Times, Marc Frons, were all in Australia talking [...]
Ecosia:: The worlds greenest search engine.
Every year a rainforest area larger than England is burned or cut down. Therefore the deforestation of the tropical rainforests is the single most important source of CO2 emissions in the world and about 20% of all global CO2 emissions are caused by rainforest deforestation. It is a major contributor to:
• Global warming
• Global climate [...]
IF Melbourne in review:: “Nostalgia, denial & arrogance” – Ben Crowe @ IF 2010
uncluttered white spaces hosted our second Innovation forum (IF Melbourne) on Tuesday night at Denmark House Melbourne.
The night turned out one of the most influential panels and guests list I have been involved in with some amazing contributions across the floor. IF exisits to bring together like minded innovators and thought leaders to share ideas [...]
Information is Beautiful:: Does the BBC give good value for money?
Last week, the BBC cuts made all the headlines: it is closing two radio stations, capping spending on sports events, and slashing other costs. All to generate extra revenue for programming.
David McCandles has covered this in an Infogrpah reviewing the BBC budgets.
As ever, it’s a little hard to understand all the abstract figures from the BBC [...]
Adidas + Augmented Reality & a few Stormtroopers.
Taking on the now industry standard concept in the games field of augmented reality, adidas has created a virtual 3-D world that can be accessed using a future line of five men’s sneakers. Users need to visit the adidas site and hold up their sneaker to their webcam; the show will feature a code implanted [...]
A reader puts in a request for honest plain english.
I am in the process of travelling from Sydney to Perth of a business trip. Majority of my time has been spent reading business mags and newspaper.
In reading the long list of earnings announcements, I’d like to make a minor change . To make a translation of a sentence I read a number of times [...]
Rick Klotz on the world’s got problems.
As a continuation on our series tracking the devlopments at Freshjive (or formerly known as) in relation to the recent name changes, we found this short documentary intruiging, controversial with plenty of room for interpretation.
If we can take 1 insight from Rick’s approach, it is certainly that he is prepared to put it out there [...]
From the Bull:: What happens when you give more than you take?
Recently, I was chatting with a great friend of mine who runs his own successful business. He’s a fantastic guy who is loved by everyone. His network of friends, business contacts and acquaintances is huge. He is smart, pragmatic and has the best “bull-sh*t detector” on the planet. He can be gruff at times and [...]
Good Magazine:: Design an Infographic for Haiti Submissions
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Good Magazine presents the competition for budding visualizers to help us better grok the situation in earthquake struck Haiti. Some really great contributions for talented web folk. This ranks as our #1. The runners up for white spaces are listed below:
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From the Bull:: The ultimate feedback question.
Remember the old staff suggestion boxes? Staff were encouraged to submit ideas, suggestions, criticisms etc via a suggestion box which once every week or so a manager would open and review. If their suggestion was controversial or personal they could submit it anonymously. In the bad old days this was sometimes the only voice that [...]
A few facts about plastic bottles and the resistance.
Seth Godin has been talking a lot lately about the Lizard brain. The conversation in your head that tells you no, don’t do it. In a recent interview with white spaces, he made an interesting comment. When he hears the lizard in his head (the resistance), he takes that as a signal to forge ahead [...]
The Dark Lord of the Sith taking over the streets of New York. With Snoop Dogg!
Star Wars x adidas Originals New York March from hypebeast.tv on Vimeo.
We talk a lot about alternative business models, which often leads to discussions around collaboration. It can often be seen as a stale conversation around two organisations struggling to leverage their own footprint alongside either an inferior brand, bigger brand or cooler brand. Its [...]
Google launches Buzz: Real time feeds for Gmail.
Google, like someone arriving late to a party already drunk and boisterous but with a lot of party favors, is trying to grab some of that Web2.0 social glimmer by polishing up Gmail with Google Buzz. The app, which is integrated into Gmail, includes the best features of Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare and other well-known social [...]
We think you should visit:: TheLoop.com.au
Matt Fayle and Pip Jamieson have launched Australia’s very first online multi-media platform aimed to match creative professionals with potential employers. The idea was born in early 2009 after Matt and Pip identified a much-needed resource for the media professional environment.
The Loop, in its very short existence has over 80,000 Australians signed up along with recruitment [...]
THE BULL :: Bill Clinton has the X Factor
In the past ten years two of my friends had the pleasure of meeting Bill Clinton. One met him at a speaking function where he was part of a greeting line of probably 200 people. The other met him, by accident, on the wharf at Port Douglas in Queensland. On both occasions the meeting took [...]
What are the most important risks for 2010?
The World Economic Forum held its annual meeting at Davos, and the theme this time was “Improve the State of the World.” Which naturally meant coming to terms with the risks out there. Their economists came up with a comprehensive list and assigned probabilities to each–and also mapped the linkages between each one. Then they summarized [...]
What if the easel held the pen, and you held the paper?
Line Navigation Time Trial Challenge
Daniel Eatock points us to some amazing places and in this instance, he creates an interesting experiment with the Line Navigation and Time Trial Challenge. Whilst the web site is in a dire need of an upgrade, the content is none the less inspiring, insightful and relevant.
Usually, the easel holds the [...]