Amazons systems knowing that I've downloaded the Kindle app for my iphone sends an email to me selling me the Kindle with "free 3G". Most retailers wouldn't be able to make their systems join like this because they are still in the dark ages. I would expect Amazon to tell me which of my friends had Kindle soon. Email below. Dear Amazon.com Customer, As someone who has registered a Kindle reading app, we thought you might like to know more about our favorite Kindle features:- Free 3G wireless, no contracts- Reads like paper, even in bright sunlight- Read up to two weeks on one charge
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Train in london. Rammed. Rubbish
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London vs Philly
London temperature: -1
Philly: -5 London snow: not much
Philly: up to 20 inches London rail: mostly screwed
Philly: normal better than London doing well service London air: mostly screwed
Philly: normal London tube: some disruptions, little bit worse than normal (ie shit)
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Philly: -5 London snow: not much
Philly: up to 20 inches London rail: mostly screwed
Philly: normal better than London doing well service London air: mostly screwed
Philly: normal London tube: some disruptions, little bit worse than normal (ie shit)
Philly: nada! Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device
Facebook and foursquare
I reckon Facebook will try and buy foursquare or if they are not thinking about it - they should.
The train is delayed...
...due to ... lazy people who hate change and can't be bothered to turn up and press start and stop many times a day and get paid for it.
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BNP signups post BBC amplification
So, @memespring reporting that bnp signups post BBC question time amount to a third of their current memberships. This is sad and if true sadly reflects the points in my last post. Whatever the "creative" justification or desperation of the journo's at the BBC - or whatever merit there is to a debate within the middle classes, if significantly more people have joined the BNP as a result of this, and this has an incrementally detrimental effect (even slightly) on any other person in the UK then the BBC has not provided anything positive but to bolster the CVs of their creative folk.
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Social Media and Broadcasters: Please think about user experience over visuals when playing in the social media space.
I've had lots of chats to people in our traditional broadcasters over the last 2 years. I've actually been a bit amazed about how the focus appears to be on visuals rather than experience! Given the point of visuals in a lot of the case is to give people an idea of the experience they may have. However, when building social apps or iphone apps, or websites - you are giving people an experience. It's this mechanic that's important.
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I often point people at the success of a lot of app networks such as Zynga and Playdom - they focus heavily on experience over visuals - just have a look at Mafia wars. Brilliant social mechanics at work, but hardly visually stunning!
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and all of a sudden the BNP has been truly created
For something to exist properly a critical mass of people need to believe it does. In one tiny flash the BBC have allowed to BNP to be real in a critical mass of people. They have given the sort of publicity that Nick Griffin couldn't fund due to lack of critical mass. Rather than collectively ignore the bully or brush him decisively away, the BBC in all their "full of creative people" genius have forgotten about human behaviour, and the power of advertising - and made fascism solidly real for millions of non "Anglo-saxons" in the UK. I will not be paying my license fee.
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Facebook won't make money?
And so Facebook hits 300 million users and goes cashflow positive. Amazingly 150million of these people come back every day - exactly the same metric as when they had 1 million users. Did anyone say anything about not being able to monetize social media? Maybe they were the same visionaries who couldn't understand search and still run media agencies?
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Lunch
Somewhere near headcorn we are having lunch! 48 miles done, 32 to go for the ferry! Am feeling quite tired - maybe the kickboxing class last night was not too clever!!
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