This neat map from the New York Times shows just how global the Olympics are today and some interesting trends.

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Anyone with a tappy keyboard will get evil looks and anyone with VoiP may be in serious peril. Business travellers will have no respite and kids will squeal at miniclip in delight. American Airlines has just launched WiFi on 3 routes. Is WiFi going to change air travel as we know it?

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So long petitions. RIP protest marches. Now if you want to get heard, just start a Facebook group. read full post »

Fascinating post on YouTube by a regular consumer putting to the test Apple’s claims about the speed of the iPhone 3G .

What’s interesting to me is not just the content of the video - which is revealing in its own way - but the way that consumers are increasingly challenging and distrusting advertising.

And how easily they can spread the message.

Even the comments on the YouTube page are mostly in favour of Apple, but based on the fact that, ‘It’s advertising, dude, of course it’s fake.’

Last week I mentioned that it is probably the unknown “size of the consumer base and the newness of the App Store - that is most likely scaring marketers [away from developing iPhone apps]. If a platform is uncharted, how can a marketing director establish ROI from it?” Now, after only one month since its unveiling, sales show it could be a huge success. read full post »

Tive already pointed out (link), brands have not exactly fallen over themselves to launch iPhone apps.

I intended this to be a review of the top five, but by the time you discount media owners like the New York Times and online brands like Facebook and Google, there are only five branded apps, one of which is terrible (find out which below). read full post »

In movie terms Bond is still one of the biggest brands around, especially with the 2006 re-invention of Casino Royale staring Daniel Craig.

Even so, these days it seems you can’t make a movie without some product placement … so do we really care what phone Bond is using in his latest movie? read full post »

I remember the first time I saw a Tiny URL address (in a computer magazine) and being a little puzzled by it. As the genius of the idea slowly sank in I started wondering why no one else had come up with this before.

A few years down the line and it seems like everyone else did have the same idea … now there’s several sites offering the same or similar services … all competing for the ‘Tiny’ crown. So who’s top of the tiny charts? read full post »