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links for 2010-07-14
Ben & Jerry’s: A Bold and Digital Reality | Edelman Digital
Good campaign. Some would argue that's it's just another app and that we're reaching appbesity, but look closer! It's been produced by Edelman Digital.
This is peice of work really signifies how agencies are changing. Good creative work no longer just from comes traditional creative [...]
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How to delight
View more presentations from cxpartners.
Giles Colborne, a UE/UX guru, has put together a great deck on how to delight your customers. I think his principles are a good dose of common sense and they can be applied to problems or thinking outside of user experience.
Loving the Post-It pad effects. Somethings will always look cool. [...]
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Earned Media Planning
I’ve been delivering strategy and consultancy for a number of different clients over the last fourteen months. Some of the planning has required me to develop overarching “always on” strategies, whilst some of the planning has been more tactical and product driven.
We find ourselves having varying conversations about the same themes over and over again.
To [...]
links for 2010-06-29
28 Rich Data Visualization Tools – InsideRIA
Lists as blog posts are starting to annoy me, but this one is actually useful.
(tags: visualization data tools javascript chart statistics resources charts)
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links for 2010-06-22
Music Labels Tell Google To Remove Infringing Links | paidContent
Not quite sure how Google will react to this as they're not actively promoting the sharing websites, but their index lists them in search results.
Censoring search results will create a user backlash as Google's bowing, to corporate pressure, will be disliked.
The platforms for piracy [...]
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links for 2010-06-13
The Apache Cassandra Project
New NoSQL used to power the new version of Digg.com
(tags: database nosql opensource software scalability cassandra distributed development cloud apache)
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Dephect Prints
My lovely, limited edtion prints from Dephect arrived yesterday. Both are one of thirty printed and they’re hand signed by the artist.
Beautiful.
Disk Space Analysis
I’ve had my Mac for just over two years and I’ve only got 56GB of disk space left. Today I went on the hunt for a disk space analyser—something to tell me what’s eating away at my disk space.
After some digging I found Daisy Disk.
To my surprise the application is amazing! It visually navigates [...]

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