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31 January 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Is Facebook Taking Inspiration From Apple’s App Store?

Is Facebook Taking Inspiration From Apple’s App Store?

In the coming weeks Facebook will be launching a new “Dashboard” screen for their Applications. At first glance it has many similarities to the iTunes app store, but looking a bit deeper there also seems to be quite a few lessons that Apple could learn from Facebook’s plans:
The Dashboard
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13 January 2010 ~ 1 Comment

Video Killed The News Story

Here’s some recent headlines from a few technology and marketing websites. Both are about different stories, but the headlines all effectively say the same thing.
Online video more popular than blogging and social networking
Video Marketing Tops Search Marketing as a #1 Priority for Brands and Agencies in 2010?
A lot of stories like this pop up around [...]

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11 January 2010 ~ 1 Comment

Some iPhone Stats

I just got this in info in an email from O2 (I’m a registered iPhone developer), some interesting numbers:
Edit/Update: It seems that they just sent me a summary of Mulley Communication’s iPhone survey results…. from 2008!

72% of users would recommend an iPhone to friends/family
86% of users said their next phone will be an iPhone
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07 January 2010 ~ 0 Comments

iTunes Beats Paypal for Registered Users

iTunes Beats Paypal for Registered Users

A few months back I was watching Apple’s Rock N’ Roll event (this post has been in my drafts half written since then!), and one thing mentioned that really struck me was the number of registered iTunes users who have registered credit cards – a whopping 100m.
I’ve seen the comparisons done between social networks (“omg, [...]

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12 February 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Growth, Reproduction, Generations and The Recession

I was going to call this post “How Darwin could help us out of this recession” in honour of his 200th Birthday today. Apologies in advance for the length, but I hope it’s worth it.

The last book I finished reading was Richard Dawkins‘ The Extended Phenotype. It was fantastic. Although it has given my mind [...]

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