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Very random thoughts on a variety of interactive media topics. Broadly looking at experience design, brand, digital consumer strategies, innovation and a fair dollop of user-facing technology. I'm Experience Director at EMC Consulting and you can also find me masquerading as @poleydee on Twitter.
March 2008 - Posts
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As more of us get 'hooked up' and start settling into our digital communications lifestyle, more people I know are going through a learning curve that for many of us we went through nearly 10 years ago. It's easy to forget this stuff, so when a friend Read More...
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When you get a new technology like Seadragon , you first work out how to get it out there in the hands of people who can use it in anger, and then you incubate it. In the case of Seadragon, Blaise Aguera y Arcas first showcased it very publicly at TED Read More...
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Stuart Preston runs all of our infrastructure at Conchango, keeping our business running and our people talking to each other and clients - oh and he develops Vista side-bar gadgets, VSTS plug-ins and a whole bunch of other stuff!! After my blog post Read More...
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I was writing a blog post recently , and was describing some approximate and rough calculations. The way we might describe this in the UK is to call them "back of a *** packet" calculations. The word: '***' meaning cigarette. It's also a word used to Read More...
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My good pal Steve Clayton posted tonight about my session at MIX and referenced an audience member, who was indeed from Otto, the company who own the Oli brand. Yes, he said that the LookBook functionality we invented and then built for them has double Read More...
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Following up from Andrew Shillaber's recent post: Organisational Experience - it's fair to say that I've been thinking more and more recently about what the 'experience' of Conchango is. We definitely 'get' experience when it is about how consumers and Read More...
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A few of you have been asking when we're going to organise the inaugural Silverlight User Group we said we would organise in the UK. Conchango has been working with Silverlight 2.0 since its release into the early adopter programme a few months ago, and Read More...
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Inspired by James Saull and Andrew Shillaber ... it's my turn! There are some beautiful and original works of art in London Heathrow's new Terminal 5. Most of them already owned or recently commissioned by British Airways. All of them - tucked away in Read More...
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Steve Clayton sent this around a little earlier in his 'Friday Thing' - always a joy! If you haven't seen this viral video and TV advert put out by Transport for London, then click through now and do the test. Steve guaranteed that you would; A) Laugh Read More...
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Well, I had a great time at MIX08. The session I thought went really well, and the feedback from people who were there was really good. The session is now up at: http://visitmix.com/blogs/2008Sessions/C03/ and this is also the place to give your feedback. Read More...
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Much is talked about Facebook's ability to do very targeted advertising, based on pretty much anything in your profile, from location, to religion. Scary... but legal in the US anyway (no Data Protection Act or European Privacy in Electronic Communications Read More...
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