TAG: trend
When Reality Feels Like Playing a Game, a New Era Has Begun
"We use game models to motivate ourselves, to answer questions, to find creative solutions. For many, life itself has turned into a game."
Tags: videogames psychology culture trend
"I realized the magic of the information age is that it allows us to know less. It provides us with external cognitive servants."
Tags: brain trend memory technology
Human Memory and the Outboard Brain
"My point is that the cyborg future is here. Almost without noticing it, we've outsourced important peripheral brain functions to the silicon around us."
Tags: brain memory trend technology
Online advertisers may gain from downturn
"The focus will be on advertising that can be measured for effectiveness, and online will gain share relative to television, newspapers or radio."
Tags: advertising internet economics trend
The evolution of buttons on Yahoo!, Adobe and Apple
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Proper comparison points for Kanye West, Michael Jackson, 50 Cent, and Norman Mailer
"Meanwhile, who is really the new Michael Jackson? The iPhone of course."
Tags: music trend insight technology culture
In praise of dubious trend stories
"In general, this kind of thing drives me crazy. But I’ve decided to stop complaining about it. Because I’ve had an epiphany. Bullshit trend stories can be a force for good."
"The project documents every instance of the phrase "is the new" encountered from various sources in 2005. It is intended to map the iterations of a peculiarly common marketing and literary device."
Tags: culture trend visualization
loss of context for me on Facebook
"I do feel the need to point out that context management is still unfun, especially for early adopters, just as it has been on every other social network site. It sucks for teens trying to balance mom and friends."
Tags: facebook culture socialnetworking trend
Cheap fashion: the trend may be over
"Prices have fallen dramatically in the past decade as products are sourced from countries with low labour costs, but clothes cannot carry on getting cheaper."
"I've liked noticing the solidification of the internet recently, it seems to be becoming more like a thing and less like a service or process."
Tags: internet culture trend insight
"Small changes in incentives can make a big difference in our beliefs. For instance, UFO sightings are down dramatically in the last decade...I think [one factor is] cell phones and cell phone cameras."
"Fopp's gone bankrupt. Prince is bypassing the stores completely to give away his new CD. But Adam Webb finds that the future of the record shop might not be as gloomy as the past week's headlines suggest"
Prince Points the Way to a Brighter Future for Music
Prince gave away his new CD with Sunday's Daily Mail. "Part of the problem, according to retailers, is that Prince's move helped solidify a growing perception on the part of consumers that music is free."
Tags: music business trend copyright
'omg my mom joined facebook!!'
"A nosy parent goes where the kids are and learns more than just what her kid is up to."
Tags: facebook youth parents socialnetworking privacy culture trend
"I sat there at one moment thinking what it would cost me in time and effort to meet any of these people. Tons. Tons of time and effort. But these people have found one another, thanks to the internet, blogging"
Tags: blogs culture community trend
You're a Nobody Unless Your Name Googles Well
"In the age of Google, being special increasingly requires standing out from the crowd online. Many people aspire for themselves -- or their offspring -- to command prominent placement in the top few links on search engines . . . "
Tags: search culture identity names trend
Enter a few words or phrases and see how often they appear on twitter.
Tags: twitter statistics trend
Predicting American Idol winners with search.
Tags: search television trend culture analytics
Google is now showing the hottest trends for the day . . . interesting way to see what's going on at the moment.
Tags: google internet trend culture search
Bummed I'm missing it, some great speakers there.
Tags: conference trend planning marketing business london
Branded Utility: Interview With Johnny Vulkan of Anomaly
"Brands being genuinely useful to their customers, employees, suppliers and the people they touch."
Tags: brandedutility marketing business interviews trend
Mere Luxury Isn't Enough for Superrich
As luxury brands move into the mass market, they need a new way to make the superrich feel special. Welcome to the 'experience economy.
Tags: marketing luxury culture trend
Why The Luxury Market Continues To Roar
"The biggest trend of all, and the one I should have mentioned first, in addition to the search for the memorable, the unique and services that have high value, is what I call the rise of connoisseurship and the hunger to know."
Tags: luxury interviews marketing trend
Riding a bike without brakes on the streets of New York may sound insane. But to the zealous adherents of fixed-gear bikes, they are a thing of beauty and a way of life.
Tags: trend culture bike nyc nytimes
Following the frogs in the pot
"Fragmentation, disintermediation, the ability to unbundle content from form, and the personal media revolution have all created an abundant, customer-in-charge world for media, one in which pure reach-frequency ad models won’t work."
Tags: media2.0 newspapers advertising trend
"So as our cities grow more dense, our social relationships are moving into Twitter time. Bettencourt and his coauthors would claim that this is neither good nor bad -- it's simply the inevitable outcome of urban growth."
Tags: culture blogs twitter mobile time trend
Colbert: Content for It-Getters
"Peak content offerings, web-like referencing, harnessed users enhancing the overall work--these are the concepts that everyone is trying to master whereever new media is intersecting with old."
Tags: cgm television web2.0 trend
"My point wasn't about whether someone gets Apple TV or not, rather that it's a product designed for a different market than folks who want to hook up traditional PCs to TV sets."
Tags: apple television video technology trend
"Hecklers have moved toward the mainstream, making headlines, torpedoing careers, and exploiting a new stage of their own on video-sharing Web sites like YouTube."
"Shops Want to Prove Communications Planning Is Vital to Marketers in an Increasingly Digital World"
Tags: marketing commsplanning strategy naked trend
"Fire the publicist. Go off message. Let all your employees blab and blog. In the new world of radical transparency, the path to business success is clear."
Tags: transparency business blogs trend marketing culture
"By looking at marketing as a service rather than a message, marketers are sure to gain competitive advantage, enhancing their product offerings and engaging their customers and prospects in fresh and meaningful ways."
Tags: marketing brandedutility business trend
Numbers Drop for the Married With Children
"Punctuating a fundamental change in American family life, married couples with children now occupy fewer than one in every four households -- a share that has been slashed in half since 1960 and is the lowest ever recorded by the census."
Tags: demographics trend culture marriage
Beauty and the death of zero sum
"Zero sum is dying in our culture. The notion that there is one single hierarchy of any kind is now in question."
7 Branding lessons from the Dove campaign
"A global research project told them [Dove] that of the 3200 women they had surveyed, only 64 of them (or 2%) were prepared to call themselves beautiful. Seventy-six per cent of the respondents wanted the idea of beauty to change. "
Tags: marketing advertising branding trend research beauty
Brands are "used to living in a world of quite crisp lines but those lines are getting less clear. The best response, it seems to me, is to forget about the increasingly suspect goal of 'message delivery' and try and get more interesting, more useful or i
Tags: branding marketing trend brandedutility media2.0
As younger people reveal their private lives on the Internet, the older generation looks on with alarm and misapprehension not seen since the early days of rock and roll. The future belongs to the uninhibited.
Tags: attention radicaltransparency identity culture trend blogs youth technology
"Now that a billion people are online, even sites aimed at a narrow slice of the Web audience can attract huge crowds. Make way for the meganiche!"
Tags: business economics longtail marketing trend
"I thought I'd bounce around a few thoughts. It's basically about taking a few key trends and looking at them at a different angle."
Tags: trend marketing brandedutility blogs curation
Jay-Z to help relaunch Cherry Coke
"Jay-Z is set to help relaunch Cherry Coke. The rapper's Rocawear firm will design the new can, and the product's TV commercials."
Tags: branding marketing design trend music
"I believe that the basis of competition in web services will shift from the data to the system that manages the acquisition, and use of that data."
Tags: data trend future business internet
Who Will Win High-Def DVD Format War? Ask The XXX Industry
"But considering the adult-entertainment industry’s historical lead in adopting new media and marketing technologies, could its withdrawal from physical media signal a larger media-consumption trend altogether? One without stamped DVDs?"
Tags: dvd technology trend sex video
Ubicomp, everyware, spimes and clipes
"It all started with language, I guess. We named things, and by naming things we labeled them. Now we're giving the labels electronic voices in the form of tiny transmitters."
Tags: spimes rfid trend future communication
Placing Ads Anywhere and Everywhere
New York Times documents some of the stranger places advertising is showing up.
Tags: advertising marketing strange trend
"She has self-selected what she takes in to such a degree that getting a word or thought or image into her consciousness that she hasn't chosen herself is like serenading a cinderblock wall."
Burger King Sells 2 Million Game Copies in 4 Weeks
"Burger King 'announced that its trio of games for the Xbox and Xbox 360 had broken the 2 million mark in just four weeks'"
Tags: marketing videogames food trend
"Although the web has enabled all of us to connect with so many people we couldn't have before we still don't know that many more people face to face. It's the real-world meet up that realizes the whole social networking phenomenon."
Tags: socialnetworking coffee likemind culture trend
Breakfast Is Late, So Business Is Good
"For the late-rising professions, the networking site of choice is a cafe with a Continental vibe."
Tags: coffee breakfast trend business networking food nytimes
"If the thought of being a yuppie once made you shudder, you’re not alone. But if you’re a thirtysomething professional, it’s quite possible you’ve become a yuppie without even realizing it."
Anal Sex Is Increasingly Popular in the Hetero World
"Anal-sex talk still makes people blush. But it’s also increasingly popular in the hetero world."
"Enough about jargon, the explicit implicit web is all about the value that will accrue to an Internet user when their every action is tracked, recorded, and used to provide value back to that user."
Tags: attention trend community privacy aggregation recommendation
"Instead, inexpensive, miniaturized and connecting technology has created a Little Brother Society where the masses are outfitted with cameras and are ready and willing to record, report and snitch on each other and the government."
Tags: culture transparency trend
Marketers: It's Time To Stop Blaming Your Woes On The Consumer!
"Marketers should embrace this growing period of reciprocity by refocusing on the fundamentals. Those fundamentals mostly likely are what made you successful in the first place!"
Tags: marketing trend business customerservice
"There's something about a low-end brand that offers a sense of authenticity, particularly among those who feel jaded by traditional advertising."
Tags: culture trend advertising marketing
"Fed up with members' bars and superclubs, nocturnal thrill-seekers are looking to illicit drinking dens for kicks, Fleur Britten reports"
Tags: trend alcohol culture secret bars
"Looking back over a few of last month's headlines, it's clear that old media is making some dramatic strides in the adoption of Web 2.0 practices and content."
Tags: web2.0 media2.0 trend video
what i mean when i say "email is dead" in reference to teens
"Email is not gone but it is dead in the sense that it is no longer a site of deep emotional passion. People still have accounts, just like they still have mailboxes. But their place for sociable communication is elsewhere."
Tags: email trend youth culture
1. Marketing should make the world better. 2. Millennials are about to change the world (more). 3. Brands are anthropomorphic.
Tags: marketing branding youth trend
two approaches to change management and brand architecture
"The specialty store could go deep. It could cultivate the brand carefully and well. But in a hyperactive marketplace, where consumer taste change often and shifts suddenly, the real challenge is remains current."
Tags: management fashion economics trend marketing
Top 10 Alternative Marketing Trends for 2007
"While marketers are constantly watching for alternative methods that can give them a competitive edge in over-crowded markets, Drew Neisser, CEO for Renegade Marketing explains the ones that will rise fastest in 2007."
"It's about how brands today need to show some respect to consumers, think about building communities . . . and brand experiences not simply rely on interrupting people through broadcast advertising."
Tags: marketing advertising innovation trend technology
Messing With Your Brand's Logo Is No Longer A No-Go
"Though MTV has been known to constantly update its logos, branding experts were at a loss to remember the last time a marketer tweaked its logo in an ad."
Tags: branding logos design advertising trend
Embed marketing in products: Crispin Porter + Bogusky CEO
"Google and Starbucks both don’t use much traditional media to get their message across, he said. But that’s because their marketing is embedded in the brand."
Tags: business advertising design trend
The Unique And Beautiful Snowflake Trap (Or Why 90% Of You Must Die)
"Because despite what Google says it’s not about page rank. Or page views. Or even popularity. It’s about inspiration, ideas and cool people."
"A deep lesson is being taught by Netflix: in a post-network economy where value creation outside the boundaries of the firm is exploding, staying closed will, more and more often, be a dominated strategy."
Tags: trend business strategy netflix
SteelPixel Web Hosting and their No-Advertising Model (Word-of-Mouth-Marketing)
"We don’t really spend money on advertising because we feel the dollars a customer spends with us should improve the services we provide them."
Tags: marketing advertising trend customerservice
The State of OMMA: Making It Up As We Go Along
No one has any idea what they're doing. "As Rishad pointed out, when someone hands him shit, he says, great, it’s fertilizer. There’s never been a more fertile time for innovation in media, marketing, and advertising."
Tags: advertising media2.0 marketing business trend
Times Square Makes Everyone Feel Famous
"The man with the cameraphone is going to capture your street performance whether you like it or not."
Tags: music business culture trend
"The tuna story" and customer experience
"Good experience means focusing on what really matters to customers, in the long run - offering genuinely useful, effective, or healthy products and services - and marketing them in a way that is honest and transparent at every step."
Tags: marketing business customerservice trend
Advertising's New Idea: Don't Push the Product; Pull the Consumer Instead
Advertising's New Idea: Don't Push the Product; Pull the Consumer Instead
Tags: advertising marketing business innovation trend
People are cheaper than ad space
"What I've tended to conclude from this experience is that for a lot of businesses people are cheaper than ad space - that it costs less on an ROI basis to get some guy to stand in the cold for eight hours a day than it does to take out an ad"
Tags: advertising marketing trend business
All about the act of 'friending.'
Tags: myspace facebook socialnetworking trend youth culture
Research Note: Show Me the Money Markets, Networks, and Communities
"The next great game isn't about just microchunking ads (preroll, postroll, blah, blah) - it's about making ads part of the hypercultural and part of the hypersocial."
Tags: marketing trend media2.0 myspace advertising internet
Advent of an era? Corporate America finally gets contemporary culture?
"When does the corporation get in touch and build a system for staying in touch? Naturally, this will happen when senior managers decide that it is in their best interests that it happen."
Tags: business culture innovation internet trend
"Sites like GigaOm and TechCrunch are rushing to list help-wanted ads, but is there room for all?"
Tags: jobs longtail business trend
Marketing Cannot Cover Up for Company Shortcomings
About Renegade suggesting to a potential client that they fess up to their less-than honest ways rather than pretend everything's dandy with a new campaign. (I'm quoted.)
Tags: business marketing rmg trend customerservice
Why marketing should make the user manuals!
"What if we stopped making the docs we give away for free SO much nicer than the ones the user paid for? What if instead of seducing potential users to buy, we seduced existing users to learn?"
Tags: business marketing passion trend
"Much of avant-nerdism has borrowed from what Wasik calls 'the idea that you can take connections that exist online and suddenly actualize them in this kind of real-world physical way, among the uninitiated.'"
"In summary, there's no easy solution. There's a big opportunity (though very tough job) for someone to come up with a meaningful metric that weighs a bunch of factors."
Tags: attention internet trend statistics business advertising
Understanding the Unconference
"Because the cost to attend is minimal (or non-existent), anyone who wishes to can come. And because everyone at the unconference participates in some fashion, interaction, networking, and the exchange of ideas is a given.
Tags: conference community trend marketing
"We have designed education to promote certainty (i.e. a state of knowing)...we now need to design education to be adaptable (i.e. a process of knowing)."
Tags: learning education trend
"I would say that most Americans qualify as expert music listeners. We have the cognitive capacity to detect wrong notes, to find music we enjoy . . . an activity that involves a process of meter extraction so complicated that most computers cannot do it"
"So what’s changed in the last several years that gave designers a seat at the boardroom table and why do we have technology and information overload to thank for it?"
Tags: design business strategy trend
Interface Culture 10 Years Later Notes
"Interface ecosystems. It's now easy to think of the world in terms as modules. Don't have to reinvent the wheel every time. You deal with this problem, I'll deal with that one. Easier to stitch together innovations."
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Are Advertisers Suffering From Addiction?
"If we are headed to a world where consumer attention becomes far less attainable with paid media, then where does that take us? I believe it means we’re approaching an age where real competitive differentiation becomes a better overall brand experience
Tags: advertising marketing attention branding trend
The Industry of Consumer Advocacy
6 ways marketers can be advocates for consumers.
interesting things that are going on
"Russell Davies talks about some of the interesting themes/topics/trends he's seeing in the media/marketing/advertising world."
Tags: marketing business media2.0 community advertising trend
The Coca-Cola Company and chunky marketing
"Yes, a new culture is upon us. But the real challenge is the old cultures that still prevail within the corporation. It may be possible to cultivate lots of diversity within the corporation but I suspect that "skunk works" strategies will be called for
Tags: business marketing longtail trend
The Ten Biggest Themes of 'What Teens Want'
A great roundup of teen trends from Anastasia at YPulse.
Tags: youth research trend branding business marketing
The anatomy of the 21st-century marketing professional.
Tags: branding marketing trend business strategy planning technology
"YouTube dispels the mystical air around witnessing things. The TV audience doesn’t have to stick around."
Tags: youtube television media2.0 culture video trend
"We all have the regrettable responsibility to act like some weird hybrid of embedded reporter and reality TV star."
Tags: media2.0 trend internet journalism
"These kids don't need to read The Long Tail, it's just how the world works to them. Rad."
Ruthless Focus on the Customer
From the Mini Cooper to Whole Foods, companies and brands are discovering how superior customer experience keeps 'em coming back for more
Tags: design business branding marketing trend
Social Networks are Killing Email
"Email is now a commodity feature: we can almost assume that we’ll always have some sort of messaging system no matter what software we use. Messaging puts the social in social software…"
Tags: email socialnetworking trend youth facebook
Laws of post-network economy: Strategy is a commodity
"In a world where strategy is a commodity, creativity becomes the vital factor from which value flows. When everyone can think strategically about everything, the locus of value creation shifts from out-thinking everyone to out-creating them."
Tags: business creativity trend strategy future innovation
The era of the blockbuster is so over. The niche is now king, and the entertainment industry – from music to movies to TV – will never be the same.
Tags: longtail media2.0 economics trend business
The People Formerly Known as the Audience
Jay Rosen's state of the media audience.
Tags: blogs media2.0 community trend journalism
"New technologies are disrupting and inverting these economics, by making attention the scarcest resource in the value chain."
Tags: attention business trend media2.0
Which products, used by few today, will be essential in five years?
A great look at the year 2011.
Tags: future trend technology innovation attention
"The plenitude of information, not its scarcity, defines the world we live in now. And journalism must change to accommodate that fact."
Tags: informationoverload journalism trend attention
For Some, Online Persona Undermines a Resume
College kids are facing the hard truth from all the stuff they've posted about themselves online.
Tags: jobs college youth internet identity trend nytimes
"Consistency assumes that presentation and messaging are the only model for brand marketing. That is simply not how communities, word of mouth, interactivity, experiences, imitation and other proven good ideas work."
Tags: marketing advertising trend business
Attention Scarcity and its Effect on Marketing
"Marketing was formerly based on ... Intercept, isolate, inhibit ... it should be based on the three A's: attract, assist (develop understandingn of context both pre and post purchase); affiliate (mobilize people to help deliver value)"
Tags: marketing attention trend future
"Who killed the cool hunter? I think contemporary culture did. It got more complicated, in the process outstripping the cognitive abilities of even those who claimed guru status."
1/3 of referrals to washingtonpost.com from blogs
"In a signing of the growing power of blogs to drive traffic online, WashingtonPost.com Executive Editor Jim Brady says that one-third of the referrals washingtonpost.com gets now comes through blogs."
Tags: newspapers blogs trend
"Marktd is a library of marketing articles weighted in importance by users. Click below to read the top stories, or use the left menu to browse marketing stories by specialist category. It's work in progress but we invite you to join in."
Tags: marketing socialsoftware community trend
"In a world of attention scarcity, we will not continue to receive attention unless we earn that right. If we do not receive attention, we risk becoming progressively marginalized."
Tags: attention culture trend internet
Romanian site that has some interesting interviews with Planners.
Tags: interviews trend marketing
25 Things I Learned on Google Trends
"To give you a sense of its tremendous power for tapping into the world psyche, here are 25 things I learned on Google Trends. Someone should start a blog on this kind of stuff."
Tags: trend google search statistics
Look at historical data of how much people have searched for specific terms over time. Graphs the whole deal out. Pretty sweet.
Tags: google trend search research
Barbie? Who's Barbie? Young girls are playing electronic house with The Sims, and the game lets them tell their own stories.
Tags: videogames gender culture youth trend nytimes
"When it comes to jobs, let your blog be your screener. If you run into potential employers similiar to those Kristine had to deal with, then screw ‘em, there are better places out there that’ll have more respect for you."
Tags: blogs jobs trend culture identity
In Search of a Comprehensive Type Design Theory
"Just as the purpose of DNA analysis is to identify the location and function of every human gene, so the study of typefaces can be seen as an attempt to understand the formal appearance of the smallest unit of the written word."
Tags: typography design font trend
Is Amazon S3 the first Tier 0 Internet Service?
"When you get down to it, Amazon S3 is simply a large, distributed hash map with an API. Unless people build applications on top of it, it’s useless. Amazon clearly expects this will happen - and what’s more they expect people will pay for it too."
Tags: amazon api trend internet
Why Features Don't Matter Anymore: The New Laws of Digital Technology
" As computing and digital devices move more and more into the consumer space, features and functionalities will increasingly take the back-seat as motivators for technology adoption."
Tags: technology trend design simplicity ux
The New York Times touches on the current fascination with type.
Tags: typography font design trend nytimes
"Younger people are not tied to a location anymore," said Ritch Blasi, Cingular's director of media relations. "They really are tied to their phones."
Tags: mobile trend youth nytimes
The Attention Economy: The Natural Economy of the Net
Michael Goldhaber's speech about the relationship between the new attention economy and the internet.
Tags: attention economics internet trend
10 Web Trends That Should Die in 2006
"Here’s a new years resolution for the web at large: stop doing silly things to users. Following are top trends that I just hope will not see 2007."
Tags: trend design internet usability
Most obnoxious line of an otherwise good article: "In the existential hall of mirrors of the new mass technoculture, what goes around comes around, like plot points in a Charlie Kaufman screenplay."
Tags: unbundled business future trend advertising internet technology media
Platicity and Post Branding Mini-Case: Spot Runner
"Spotrunner's intent isn't just to make buying TV ads hyperefficient - it's to make the entire TV advertising value chain hyperefficient, like Google makes the larger media value chain hyperefficient."
Tags: business advertising television innovation trend
Soderbergh does a DVD-theater release combo
A red carpet will roll out Thursday night in front of Parkersburg, W.Va.'s historic Smoot Theater for the official premiere of a movie that, according to backers, represents the future of the film industry.
Psst, Don't Tell Anyone, But the Internet Is Over
David Card explains, "People seem to be settling on what they use the Internet for, and doing fewer things overall."
Tags: internet trend youth research
"A Hype Cycle is a graphic representation of the maturity, adoption and business application of specific technologies."
Tags: trend technology culture research
There's no such thing as cyberspace.
"I find very compelling the idea that we beginning to see a generation that has not grown up with the idea of the internet as a separate "cyberspace""
Tags: internet youth research trend
Garrett Dimon: "With big and simple, it’s about removing the noise, and making the important stuff standout."
Tags: design trend usability simplicity
Teen Content Creators and Consumers
"Teen Content Creators and Consumers: More than half of online teens have created content for the internet; and most teen downloaders think that getting free music files is easy to do"
Tags: youth research internet blogs remix trend posted
The Lives of Teenagers Now: Open Blogs, Not Locked Diaries
""The more kids are involved with digital content creation, the more thinkers will emerge that will eventually produce tomorrow's innovative products," said Brendan Erazo, a 15-year-old."
Tags: blogs youth nytimes research posted trend remix
"The acclaimed SoHo store owner highlights the design trends he sees emerging around the world, from the human touch to low-tech approaches"
Tags: design trend furniture posted
Web Development Trends for 2006
"Curious about what technologies and techniques are going to be popular in the coming months and into the next year? Well, our crack team of editors . . . have assembled a list of up-and-coming trends that you should keep an eye on."
Tags: trend internet design marketing posted
"The value is no longer in maintaining an exclusive hold on things. The value is no longer in owning content or distribution. The value is in relationships. The value is in trust."
Tags: business media blogs trend web2.0 posted
When You Are Your Own Client, Who Are You Going To Make Fun Of At The Bar?
"The minute we saw this equation from the other side we knew what we had to do. Without realizing it, we had already built the audience, now we needed to create a product for it. “If they come, you will build it.�"
Tags: blogs business entrepreneur trend longtail posted
Content Stripped Bare: Death of design; reign of content?
"Design, too, is stripped bare. With content playing first fiddle to the world of digital applications, design (or the kind of design that encompasses album art, book jackets, editorial illustrations, and even websites) becomes less and less important."
Tags: design art music future trend posted
Press release from Feedster talking about the new ability of AOL portal users to customize their homepage with RSS feeds. Score one for Feedster.
Tags: rss aol search trend posted
Keeping T-Shirts in the Moment
NYTimes: "Lately limited edition T-shirts, most likely made in someone's cellar in Brooklyn, have suddenly become the hipster's preferred mode of expression."
Tags: art business fashion customization trend posted
Steve Rubel's top 10 tech trends for the next 10 years.
Tags: future lists business technology posted trend
The fundamental unit of the web
Kottke.org: "And now it seems that there are several efforts underway to cut the fundamental unit down to the phrase or word."
Interview with Eric von Hippel: "I mean that product and service users-both individuals and firms-are increasingly able to innovate for themselves."
Tags: interviews innovation trend collaboration opensource posted
BusinessWeek looks at Cornerstone and other so-called "experiential" brands marketing to the hip
Tags: marketing business music posted trend
"A thought struck me about how successful, modern mainstream brands (think Jet Blue, Axe, even Fox News) now behave. They act like insurgents."
Tags: branding business marketing trend posted
Interview With Josh Rubin, Mr. Cool Hunter
IF decided to ask the Cool Hunter a few questions about the site and the consultancy he offers brands.
Tags: interviews fashion trend posted
Old brews cool to young drinkers
"Just as young consumers might wear '70s-look sneakers, sip '50s cocktails or download '80s hair band tunes, many are bellying up to the bar for the beers Grandpa drank"
Tags: alcohol trend consumerism posted
Mass collaboration on the Internet is shaking up business
Tags: business collaboration economics longtail trend wiki posted
"Trends are not an accusation of some widespread lack of original thinking. Instead, they are a sign of design evolution in our ever-shrinking world."
Tags: design logos business trend posted
Ten interesting ideas in videogame design
Gamesblog: "So here’s the entire article, which looks into a few interesting ideas buzzing around the industry at the moment – ideas that promise to take gaming in intriguing new directions."
Tags: videogames trend wifi mobile posted
An experiment to track del.icio.us' most popular posts, to ascertain who are the most frequent deliciously popular people.
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Can any self-respecting thirtysomething music fan turn their back on a record collection dominated by hip bands such as Muse and Interpol and revert to their first love - the Moody Blues, ELO, Queen, Toto and, yes, even Phil Collins?
Tags: music writing bestarticlesof2005 trend
One law rules dedicated followers of fashion
New Scientist: "The magnetic model predicts that when people have a strong tendency to imitate others, shifts in behaviour will be faster, and there may even be discontinuous jumps, with many people adopting cellphones virtually overnight."
Tags: trend science culture behavior posted
They're known as firework careers: bands whose popularity rockets, flares - and dies all too quickly. Dorian Lynskey reports on a worrying trend and looks at what a new band can expect
Tags: music culture trend posted bestarticlesof2005
Korean Kids' Greatest Fear: No Cell Phone
"What would be the harshest punishment to junior and senior high school students today? Confiscation of their cell phones, rendering them helpless to send SMs to their friends or post their digital school pictures on the Internet."
Tags: mobile trend korea youth posted
Designer and budding mogul Marc Ecko says the business of culture is regional
Marc Ecko: "Convergence. Blurring lines. Brands existing dynamically in real time in multiple places. And being more purposeful and meaningful than just being a commodity."
Tags: interviews marketing design trend posted
Magazines Find Ways to Include Unconventional Elements in Deals With Marketers
"So just as the TV networks seek to entice marketers with sales packages that go beyond running 30-second spots. . . publishers are also developing elaborate offers that involve more than just running ad pages or advertorial sections in their magazines."
Tags: nytimes magazines advertising marketing posted trend
French mobilize to save cheeses under threat of extinction
"In 30 years, more than 50 have been struck off the menus as the proportion of industrial cheeses continues to grow while cheeses made from unpasteurised milk only represent seven percent of our consumption," said Veronique Richez-Lerouge.
Tags: food france trend posted
Concern over rise of 'happy slapping' craze
Fad of filming violent attacks on mobile phones spreads
Tags: strange trend mobile video england posted
Blogs Will Change Your Business
Look past the yakkers, hobbyists, and political mobs. Your customers and rivals are figuring blogs out. Our advice: Catch up...or catch you later
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Firefox Market Share Gains Continue
ClickZ: "Firefox more than doubled its reach, hitting the number two spot with a 10.28 percent share of the market, up 6.05 percent from January's measurement of 4.23 percent."
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Dan Gillmor: "The emerging web is one in which the machines talk as much to each other as humans talk to machines or other humans. As the net is the rough equivalent of a computer operating system, we’re learning how to program the web itself."
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Innovation Moves From the Laboratory to the Bike Trail and the Kitchen
NYTimes: "But a lot of significant innovations do not come from people trying to figure out what customers may want. They come from the users themselves, who know exactly what they want but cannot get it in existing products."
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Bubblegeneration: "The feedreader, I suspect, is becoming the browser 2.0. This is hugely important, but little discussed. Because someone else has control of your browsing,the value equation gets flipped on it's head. Now, the point of this is not that t
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Two rules for trend spotting
Notes from talk--The Real Deal: How Young Adults Spend Their Time Online
Susan Mernit: "from RSS and SMS to peer-to-peer file sharing, find out how newspapers can tap into the new information networks, and the audience was about 40 newspaper editors and one online news producer."
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'LIFE CACHING': collecting, storing and displaying one's entire life, for private use, or for friends, family, even the entire world to peruse.
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Picking Up Where Search Leaves Off
The time-saving trend of "tagging" is luring legions of Web surfers -- and Yahoo!
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New Forms of Online Communication Spell End of Email Era in Korea
Advertisements Get More Play in Video Games
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Netflix sees Amazon entering DVD rentals
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Technology's gender balancing act
Companies are thinking about women and technology
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Helping parents keep track of their kids with GPS
Students crazy about iPod follow the music to Apple laptops
Interview with the head of Daily Candy
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Japanese get first mobile wallets
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The Great Open Source Giveaway
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Mobile phones with purchasing power
RFID phones in Japan
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More phone users are hanging up land lines
I know I have
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DaimlerChrysler explores brand for younger buyers
Reader survey for blog advertising.
Blogads survey from May
Will the Tiger finally break Windows?
Will the iPod's market dominance be the tipping point to displace PCs?
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[Press Release] Broadband Video Is Set to Threaten the Prevailing Video Distribution Models
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