London Fashion Week Loves Digital

I think it’s so great to see some of the top luxury fashion brands really embracing digital as a communication channel for Fashion week. Particularly given the industry has generally shied away from this medium until recently. Luxury fashion companies are recognised as trend setters in their product categories, however many continue to be traditional [...]

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Altogether Launch Sony’s Fantasy Festival

If possible I would love to put a bypass around the forthcoming winter. Lets be honest here Christmas is overrated. In January you will fail after 3 days to keep to an enforced health kick and only if you’re lucky February or March might involve a skiing holiday, but that’s pretty much it. So lets [...]

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Puppetmaster

Remember all that fun bossing around a man in a ridiculous chicken suit. How about Subservient Cameron? Or maybe even better, Subservient Brown? Well if you fancy living out your fantasies of being a political puppet master, your chance to pull at the strings of power may be closer than you think.
Speech Breaker offers you [...]

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Navigation rollovers (IE6 friendly)

Whilst coding away today, I came across a little bit of code that I’ve seldom used and rarely seen documented, but is extremely useful for all those of you who try doing image-replacement for text and want it to work nicely in IE6.
My personal technique of choice, and one of the most accessible, is to [...]

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Giving Your One Percent for the Planet

In 2001 Yvon Chouinard and Craig Matthews the founder of Patagonia and Blue Ribbon Flies respectively created One percent for the Planet, an initiative where companies pledge to give 1% of gross revenues to environmental causes. 1% now has over 1,243 businesses in 29 countries and has contributed over $30 Million so far to over [...]

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United Boost Guitars

Remember that old marketing quote ‘One unhappy Customer will tell 10 people’. Well I think that saying should be updated. How about, ‘one unhappy customer can tell 2,950,217 people’ (at last count).  When United Airlines broke Dave Carol’s guitar and refused to compensate him, they never thought it would turn into [...]

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Evolution of the User Interface

Since 1984, the humble mouse has become the essential computer peripheral we know today. It has been an integral part of our connection between the human and the digital screen. Now with the advent of advanced computer video gaming systems, designers have been rethinking the way consumers interact in a digital space.
Over a month ago, [...]

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Rethinking Page Rank Sculpting

Matt Cutts  dropped a bomb shell earlier last month which reverberated around the global SEO community. In case you haven’t heard, the way the HTML nofollow attribute works has now changed. Historically, the nofollow attribute could be used to direct the flow of Page Rank around your site to those pages which were more commercially important, [...]

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Give A Little Respect

In the online era of  Twitter, Facebook and social media in general – you can effectively say anything almost anywhere. The shift reminds me of the way the camera phone combined with 24 hour news has changed much of the landscape of news reporting today. Computers and smart phones have become the tools of getting [...]

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DDOS the new Molotov Cocktail?

The Iranian election issue has been fascinating to watch unfold. Twitter has shown itself to be more than just a place where people announce what they had for breakfast or drunkenly send updates from night buses as they meander home. Twitter has gained real importance in the eyes of many – where firsthand updates [...]

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