Long Live the Web: A Call for Continued Open Standards and Neutrality
More: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=long-live-the-web
Social Shopping
ThisNext is an example of Social Shopping – which allows you to share your best finds with the community. The boutique alternative to catalogue retailer like Amazon.
More: http://www.thisnext.com/
Posted in Shopping, Social
Leave a comment
Data visualization is where its at
David McCandless, a London-based author, writer and designer. I’ve written for The Guardian, Wired and others. His book information is beautiful which was out last year, pretty much tells the story of how powerful data visualization is for all media formats; and provides useful illustrations for GenY consumers.
Posted in Information, Visualisation
Leave a comment
Youtique
French Connection You Tube Channel Youtique is a simple idea, videos showing trends to shoppers looking for particular outfits: eg work to party, with each video linking all items straight through to the French Connection ecommerce site.
More: http://www.youtube.com/user/frenchconnection?gclid=COPA4pidpaUCFYw14woduwtQJQ
Posted in Fashion, Video
Leave a comment
Walking routes, carbon friendly
A useful service that helps you find the most direct, less buys or low pollution walking route in 31 UK cities. It tells you the time it will take on fast, slow, the no of calories or steps uses, and the amount of C02 saved.
More: www.walkit.com
Posted in Carbon friendly, Local
Leave a comment
TWITTER TAXI: Tweetalondoncab gathers momentum
Apart from letting punters find cabs via twitter, get better deals and establish a more meaningful relationship with drivers, this entrepreneurial group of 300+ licensed taxi drivers constantly share traffic issues, roadwork locations, etc with each other. The friendly cabbie I had the pleasure of being driven by could hardly contain his excitement for Echofon – his iPhone twitter app. Much more like someone I’d meet at a tech networking event that the Luddite I had anticipated!
Posted in Apps, GPS, Mobile, Smartphones, Travel, Twitter
Leave a comment
Phone Apps to Navigate Traffic
DREADING traffic jams this holiday season? There are apps for that. The advent of GPS-enabled cellphones has generated a wave of applications, many of them free, that turn drivers into veritable traffic reporters.
Source: New York Times
Posted in Apps, Mobile, Travel
Leave a comment
The Social Network
Simon (founder of ideas.org) recently went to see The Social Network with around 200 of London’s digerati and was interviewed by Hermione Way (The Next Web). Facebook is without doubt a huge success but we sense there is massive opportunity and room for innovation in the social networking space over the coming years.
Posted in Facebook, Film
Leave a comment
Facebook launches instant smartphone vouchers…not yet in UK though
Facebook has launched a service that allows businesses to offer users deep discounts through its smartphone application.
Users physically out shopping who “check in” to the Facebook Places programme via their mobile smartphone will be presented with an offer they can redeem immediately in the store. The Facebook Deals programme has been launched in the US, but will be rolled out internationally in the coming months … [more on sociable*]
Posted in Facebook
Leave a comment
Windows Phone 7
We had a demo of the new Windows Phone 7 from Oded Ran who is the Head of Consumer Marketing, Windows Phone, Microsoft UK. We think the OS and the user interface is a great innovation and will help Microsoft re-enter the smartphone market and spur Apple & Android on to think hard and innovate faster.
Posted in Mobile
Leave a comment