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OK, with just a week to go it’s time to tell you what we’re doing at MIX this year. Last year, I looked at a whole bunch of stuff in Virgins, Spaceships and Hobnailed Boots but we focused in on a few things like the power of brand experience, and how you go about it with the philosophy of Total Experience Design where you have to look wider than ...

In a previous post, Object Recognition leads the way for Microsoft Surface, I touched on how Microsoft Surface recognizes devices placed on top of it.  Microsoft Surface reads a small square 8-bit tag that is attached to an object so that users can interact with it.  The tag is a combination of dots that works like a barcode. When ...

During the Surface workout Isobel demonstrated the magic of Microsoft Surface.  The one feature of Microsoft Surface that Bel didn’t touch on was object recognition.  Yet object recognition is one of the features of Microsoft Surface that really excites me. The five cameras inside the unit can recognise objects placed on the ...

With the concept of ‘fluid formats’ where consumers / viewers are setting their own viewing schedules for TV programming through the use of Personal Video Recorders (PVRs) like Tivo and Sky+, advertisers have been worried for a while. For a long time, we’ve held the attitude at Conchango that to get the attention of viewers is not hard, but to ...

A quickie to let you know that my MIX08 session has a time, date and place. The full Facebook event is here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=9215037357 - do go join up. It's always slightly encouraging, not to say scary, to see people who actually might turn up! Or for you FB resisters: March 6th, 4.15pm, Delfino 4005, The Venetian ...

So, blog-writing... dangerous thing. You can reveal things you never thought anyone would read ever... lesson-learned: People read your blogs! Shocking, but apparently true according to Thomas and Mike at The Signal. These guys spend their time reading, chatting, getting shouted at by their boss. Much like my life actually, but I don't have the ...

I saw a slogan on the side of a bus the other day: "Swap laptops for flip-flops" This is the latest in a long line of media and advertising that suggests that the computer is a part of our work lives, and that generally we should loathe it. Also that it is never part of our leisure lives; something we might actually enjoy ...

Since the first printed newspaper was published back in the 17th century, newspaper circulation had enjoyed rapid growth establishing itself as the premier vehicle for distributing news.  Technological advancements in TV, radio and the Internet has brought some stiff competition and circulation is on a steady decline as advertisers shift ...

As one of the vinyl generation brought up on a diet 7” and 12” records I never thought the day would come where my stylus would no longer work those grooves.  But in the early 80’s the Compact Disc emerged claiming superior sound quality, a more compact size and increased durability. The vinyl junkies pledged their ...