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The unexpected future: it’s parochial

 - October 1st, 2012

 

Howard Jacobson is a man who knows how to take care of his words. The author of ‘The Finkler Question’ has a simple system for dealing with the perennial paranoia of losing his unpublished novels: he duplicates and distributes them amongst friends. According to a recent interview on Radio 4, Jacobson has, ...

 

What Can The Shrink Teach The Community Manager?

 - September 24th, 2012

 

Here are the slides from the talk I just gave as part of Social Media Week London. We had 30ish people in our boardroom for a quick lesson on behavioural psychology and some insights into how we apply that thinking to help us better manage communities of people. A lot of it backs up the [...]

 

Apple’s boring launch is the most exciting thing to happen in five years

 - September 13th, 2012

 

Last night, a colleague told me a story. His twelve year old girl had asked him if she could sign up to Facebook. He ummed, he ahhed. Finally, he relented. His daughter’s response? “I don’t want to be on Facebook now, it’s for old people.” Instead, she is going to get on Tumblr and Instagram, [...]

 

Playing With The Future – dConstruct 2012

 - September 11th, 2012

 

The famous Canadian philosopher Marshall McLuhan once said “We drive into our future using only the rear view mirror”. It’s a quote that has long been at the forefront of technological innovation. Used by naysayers to present the apparent danger of rapid innovation, and conversely by innovation leaders as a way o...

 

Branching Out

 - August 14th, 2012

 

Branch, the latest startup backed by Twitter co-founders, Biz Stone and Evan Williams, has just been released out of private beta and is being heralded as a ‘new way to talk to each other.’   Many early beta users seem to be drawing comparisons with Quora, due to its focus on extended conversations around a [....

 

Great Graphic Design with a Sporting Theme

 - July 23rd, 2012

 

With the Olympics just around the corner, a few of the hypernaked design team have been keeping their eyes peeled for some examples of great graphic design with a sporting theme. Below are the five that most caught their eye:   1. Olympic rings poster. – http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/josh-king   ...