Monthly Archives: April 2009

Aim album covers

By Dhiren | Published: April 28, 2009
I’m loving Aim for several reasons at the moment: - Trip-Hop beats are just ace - Reportage style photos on all the album covers that look like they’ve been taken with a rangefinder or some old Kodak Chrome - Retro typeface used for his logo Hear him on all of the usual suspects, Lastfm et [...]
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Us vs. Them

By Dhiren | Published: April 28, 2009
So…I’m a bit late to air my thoughts about this debate, however, I felt I needed to understand the debate before I made any comments. Traditional PR agencies vs. Digital Shops, SEO houses and Social Media Agencies—who’s better equipped at utilising new methods of Online PR and leading clients into digital? A rather tough question [...]
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Be nice or leave

By Dhiren | Published: April 18, 2009
Just an excellent presso from Faris Yakob, it just had to be shared.
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Skins

By Dhiren | Published: April 17, 2009
When did you last use Ask.Com? I haven’t used it since I was at College. Back then they had a guy called Jeeves on the homepage with a tray in his hand, and people actually used to type questions into the search box thinking it was a real Q&A engine. Insane curiosity drove me back [...]
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EPOS of the Future

By Dhiren | Published: April 16, 2009
I was in Waitrose recently buying wine and bits for dinner. Our local branch in Windsor doesn’t have the self-service checkouts just yet— then again I was in Waitrose, and it was in Windsor. Earlier in the week I was buying lunch from Tesco Metro and I used their self-service checkouts. Shopping in both supermarkets [...]
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SXSWi attire

By Dhiren | Published: April 15, 2009
A a little over a couple of weeks ago @miketeasdale headed off to SXSWi with all the other cool cats of the Ad/Media world. He received so many free t-shirts on his trip – we thought it would be plain nuts if he wore a different one each day of the week when he came [...]
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Usability as USP

By Dhiren | Published: April 14, 2009
Whilst I was watching the box last night I noticed that the T.V. commercial for Go Compare was promoting the fact that their website had really good usability. I think it’s a clever move from an advertiser that is now operating in quite a saturated market. There are so many insurance comparison sites and aggregators [...]
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