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I like to think that I/ we innovate and instigate new thinking and evolution on the present, the here and now, the what is already there. Only by doing this, by pushing yourself and your thinking forward will we ever evolve. Compare this first mobile phones vs iPhone 5 - without pushing ourselves time and time again would we ever be where we are ...

What else is bubbling away in the darkened beanbags in Silicon Valley that is blending the Geek thinking with your average consumer of social stuff... Facebook  developers have been busy creating some great applications and platform developments, as they continue to rally to Mark Zuckerberg's vision of Facebook being the next pervasive ...

I realized that I haven't been on here since 2010 with a post about how times have changed within Retail where it used to be a big NO having cameras in your store http://tinyurl.com/Madman2010 Since then, I have blogged elsewhere, written papers, produced music and other good stuff... So 2011, and a return to where it all started with my ...

My how we have come a long way since I first began in Retail, goodness that was over 20 years ago! Back then we had no internet, comparison shopping was walking down main street, or the emerging shopping malls. Social Commerce was listening to what your friends had said about a product or store, and whatever the store had information ...

In my last post I touched very briefly on the Games and Movie industry and where the D2C opportunities are heading. These are inevitable – however there are more pressing issues at stake just now and the as 2009 is THE year of the emerging mobile (we all knew it had potential but here it is at last it starts to come of age and will be very ...

Firstly some exciting news from January 2009 The Diary of A Madman Blog will also be available as Podcast of a Madman  with the usual ranting's and good stuff, as well as a whole host of other media that I can only talk about, but the podcast you can also listen, watch and view some episodes - all be announced and then you can subscribe and ...

  Just as the George Lucas sci-fi classic ran for years and years - such is the space for mobile devices - and the Mobile War that will undoubtedly erupt over the coming years I'm sure that the "Empire (may well try to) Strike Back" however with the latest glut of new touch phones arriving on the scene such as the Samsung Omnia ...

I have talked enough about this topic in various blogs, presentations and events. Sometimes I try to be explicit in the reasoning and other times I add it as a point of reference... So The Long Tail - as described throughout by Chris Anderson and others talks about  - and here I am talking about the digital media Long Tail where unlimited ...

    So in my last blog I said that I would be back to update on what is going on over at Apple - especially for Xmas retailers...OK so what was hot at the Apple Conference in San Francisco!  You can watch it all HERE! Apps Store - I said in some of my previous blogs just how significant the Apps store is to Apple and to the ...

If You have one of these invitations below then you don't have long to wait until Apple and Steve jobs unveils the Fall / Christmas line up from Apple. Of course we are expecting some new iPods and there has been plenty of speculation on what we can expect - but I'm not going to do that here (well maybe iPhone 2.1 firmware!) - like any Christmas ...