These my micropostings and bookmarks – March 6th through March 10th:

• Reaching Affluents on Social Nets – eMarketer – Affluent customers don’t use social networks to ‘connect with’ brands.

  Doh.

  Question is whether any at all “connects” with a brand once they’ve ‘friended’ it in passing…

• Kelkoo Press Release – UK online shoppers biggest spenders in Europe – Recent factoid from Kelkoo
• ASOS Follows Fashion – fashionable thoughts from our favourite tweeters – Not only do ASOS “get” twitter, but they’re now setting out to ‘own’ it! For fashion, at least. Remind me, what did publishers used to do? 😉
• US and Western European online retail will grow double digit year-on-year over the next five years – The Forrester Blog For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals – Factoids from Forrester
• Reduce. Reuse. Reinvent. | Free Patents That Will Save Our Galaxy – Awesome. Great ‘patent’ illustrations. Oh to be able to draw this well and have the dedication to turn the thought into something this funny and well-produced! Bravo.

These my micropostings and bookmarks – February 12th through March 6th:

• “Embrace Your Page Rage” – adaptive path » newsletter for february 24, 2010 – Nice and provocative article on the notion of ‘pages’ in web design. Of interest to ecommerce professionals and online merchandisers given the dynamic, algorithm-driven ‘pages’ we serve to our customer ‘personae’.
• Layers: Screen Capture for Mac. PSD Compatible. – Wow – screen capture on steroids. Not only does is have nice, full-window and full-browser grabbing (even parts outside of the screen), but the grab is converted into a PSD layered image so you can play with the various elements in photoshop later. Very interesting.
• Bokode – Camera Culture Group, MIT Media Lab – Bokeh-code: diffraction patterns from out-of-focus light points convey more data, from further, while using less space than a traditional barcode.
  The requirement for a light source could be an issue, but certainly a nice approach, and one that uses ‘out-of-focus’ as a way of carrying more data.
• FCUK Exposes Its Naked Marketing Scheme to ChatRoulette Users | addybaddy | Fast Company – Nice appropriation of ChatRoulette to bolster the brand positioning. Quick off the mark – I like the confidence.
• HipLogic Inc. – A mobile ‘platform’ layer that runs on closed handset systems to offer an integrated ‘smartphone’ and app-like experience, even for phones that lack an app-friendly OS. Currently available in the UK via Carphone Warehouse as https://snapplife.com/
• Last day of Borders – Lorenzo Wood’s photo – Lorenzo’s photo of the last day of Borders.
• Quick and easy podcasting with an iPhone 3GS, GarageBand, and Posterous –

These my micropostings and bookmarks – January 29th through February 9th:

• 45+ CSS Grid Systems, Layout Generators and Tutorials that every Designer should know | tripwire magazine – CSS grid layouts
• Grid System Generator – Neat interface to play with grid options for wireframes
• The Fallacy of Old World PR | Jonathan MacDonald – Succinct piece on Toyota’s response to the recall – knowledge for 13months, do nothing, taken by surprise… then the CEO driven away from the press conference in a black Audi…
• Samson Zoom H4 Digital Recorder: Six Ways to Maximize Your Use of This Awesome Device | I’d Rather Be Writing – Tom Johnson – Useful summary of using the zoom h4. Comments are useful.
• doubleyouwhy! » Nikki Graziano – Plotted equations overlaid on photographs. Neat (but the graphs are more interesting than the images 😉 ).

These my micropostings and bookmarks – January 15th through January 22nd:

• Data, Data Everywhere and Not a Thought to Think « Jim Sterne on eMetrics – Jim’s contribution to the ‘data: tool or crutch; evil or saviour’ debate. Balanced and with some nice links. Ideal given that it’s a topic I’m speaking on at an SXSW panel this March! Thanks Jim 🙂
• Christmas 2009 volumes – Hitwise Intelligence – Robin Goad – UK – Interesting to see the “dec 26/27” surge in web activity again, but also the sheer volume of customers searching for sale information and store opening times…
• “Myth of the White Messiah” – review of the tropes in Avatar – Fun and well-put argument on the plot of Avatar.
• WordPress › TDO Mini Forms « WordPress Plugins – Wonder if I can use this as a way to let peeps upload press releases?
• RankSpeed – video conferencing: good – Interesting “blog/twitter ‘sentiment'” rankings. Analyses key words in social media ‘mentions’ to build a picture of a product’s reputation.

  This is the list for “video conferencing”. The list is useful even if one queries the methodology.

These my micropostings and bookmarks – December 14th through January 7th:

• YouTube – Zugara’s Augmented Reality & Motion Capture Shopping App – Zuagar’s ‘demo’ of AR in use to choose clothing. Now apparently in use at Fashionista.
• YouTube – How to use Fashionista – The New Webcam Social Shopper – Nice implementation (in video, at least) of Zugara’s augmented reality software. Not sure why AR’s needed at all – just seems to do scaling that could easily be done with arm-waving.

  That said, it’s a nice demo of how the Playstation’s EyeToy is not being used for apparel retail.

  Funny old world.

• Josef Hoflehner Photographer | Jet Airliner – Wow – that’s what I call wonderful black n white photography. Not only is the subject incredibly well-observed, but look at the contrast, the choice of tone… Sigh.
• How to Write a WordPress Plugin | Devlounge –
• Xmas 2009 online retail stats round up | Blog | Econsultancy – Useful roundup of the various stats, predictions and punditry
• Mobilizy Proposes ARML to AR Consortium :Mobilizy – Hm. After APML we now have “Augmented Reality Markup Language”.

  The main thrust is to get geo/location information into AR browsers and devices.

  This appears to be a glorified “Open Waypoint” system (since the ARML data should work on Google Earth etc), and I wonder whether there’s something similar already in the directory/hyperlocal/yellow pages community to manage this?

These my micropostings and bookmarks – November 23rd through December 2nd:

• What Is A Klout Score? – The Klout score – an interesting (and openly-stated) measure of twitter “clout”. Props to them for their opennes – much to ponder.
• Twitter Fan Wiki / Mashups – Useful list of twitter resources and mashups.
• Twitter API Wiki / Twitter API Documentation – The Twitter API documentation – the what and how of accessing information from the mighty twitter
• Jack Cheng — Jack of all trades, master of none. – Great weblog: – tone, content and design. Particularly like the time-based nav (top) and the footer.
• Mr B – Emporium of reading delights in Bath.

  https://www.mrbsemporium.com/Gift%20Vouchers.htm in particular is a great idea – building on the store experience, with a twist of humour and individuality.

  This, surely, is why passionate, niche retailers will survive and hopefully thrive?

These my micropostings and bookmarks – October 20th through November 21st:

• Feltron Eight – Graphically-lovely, informationally stimulating and generally the sort of thing I wished I’ve have thought of (and had the commitment to actually do… 8 years ago!).

  Just look at the lovely triangle/fractally thing for 2008. Sigh.

• Wordr – Monoblogging – expressing yourself one word at a time.

  Beautifully-executed site, too.

• Five qualities of a great iPhone app | Software | iPhone Central | Macworld – Sensible and relates well to the Gap’s recent iPhone app-design competition.
• MySupermarket.co.uk launches online service for retailers and manufacturers – Interesting development. As the company moves from price-comparison and basket-switching they realise that a) they are a data business and b) that the grocery retailers need the comparative data maybe more than they need the sales!

  This is a bit like ‘hitwise for grocery consideration’.

  “mySupermarket Insights service will enable clients to view real-time supermarket prices of all products in their categories at Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Asda and Ocado, in order to help assist their pricing, sales and marketing strategies. In addition to instant access to current pricing data, the service also offers all prices and promotions going back an entire year, and automatically inform clients upon logging in which prices have changed within the past seven days.”

• Get Started with Wave – The Complete Guide to Google Wave: How to Use Google Wave – Useful. I was confused. Now a little less so, but still no-one to wave to…
• What’s Happening Now: Hashtags on Twitter Lists « OUseful.Info, the blog… – Twitter lists, Yahoo Pipes… all very clever. I’ll read this one day and maybe understand it…
• “Fun can change behaviour for the better” – YouTube – Piano stairs – TheFunTheory.com – Rolighetsteorin.se

  Nice example of visual clues, humour, interaction and situationalist approaches.

  Not sure what VW’s involvement is, but if it’s marketing it’s the sort of fun marketing I like.

These my micropostings and bookmarks – September 17th through September 29th:

• Xtranormal | Text-to-Movie – Nice online tool to script and create ‘3d movies’. A way to have gags, stories etc voiced by 3d avatars and put straight onto YouTube etc.
• Guardian.co.uk Has Lost £20 Million Since 2002/03 | paidContent –
• The Dirty Little Secret About the “Wisdom of the Crowds” – There is No Crowd – “there is no crowd”
• The Writing Desk: Pilot Pluminix. – cute fountain pens. Like their wonderful disposable ones… just not disposable 🙂
• www.leicagoodies.com –

These my micropostings and bookmarks – September 8th through September 15th:

• ToyCamera – Art&Mobile – Wonderful add-in app that turns the crap camera of iPhones up to the 3g into a fun, creative thing – with lo-fi simulations of various cameras and styles. Instant Lomo? Lolo? 1974 colour? All here 🙂 I love it.
• Lomography Store… – Woo. Lomo store. Not _that_ far from the new Leica Store (“experience”) off Bond Street. Film photography seems renascent – provided your name begins with “L”. Lodak? Lolaroid? anyone?
• Garden Offices, Garden studios, Therapy, Sound-proofed music rooms – Woo – shed envy. I’d love a shed. Mind you, first of all I’d love a garden that’s sufficiently large to have a shed. A large shed. A shed with room to dream. Ah, a shed.
• Google – Internet Stats – Cool – and really pleased to see that InternetRetailing is one of the sources 🙂
• Merlin Mann –

These my micropostings and bookmarks – August 30th through September 5th:

• Flexibits | Cameras – Found this neat little plugin:

  “With familiar System Preference functionality, Cameras allows you to manage what happens when you connect your:

  * Digital camera
  * iPhone
  * Digital media reader
  * Any photo device

  In addition to launching a specific application when you connect a camera, you can also have your images download automatically. Never again spend time launching the right app or quitting apps that you didn’t want to launch.”

• Perian – The swiss-army knife of QuickTime® components – Perian is a free, open source QuickTime component that adds native support for many popular video formats.
• Review of Maturity Models::immeria::web analytics blog::Stephane Hamel – Six approaches to maturity models compared, with the aim of finding an ideal one for the Web Analytics Association. The review is a useful round-up though for anyone interested in maturity models and their applicability.
• Starting a new business – free advice, tools and resources | Start Up Donut – The Startup Donut – from Business Hotline Publications
• iO | Innovation Onboard, integrating portable devices into your car – Bluetooth Music Streaming & Hands Free kits. iPhone hands free car kit & iPhone music integration into your vehicle – Neat way to get iPod/phone music into an old car
• Blogging is back, thanks to Posterous | Blog | Econsultancy – Nice, enthusiastic review of Posterous, with mullings on microblogging. Chris didn’t mention that ‘annotated delicious tags’ are also microblogging too… 😉
• Retail Retweets (retailretweets) on Twitter – Retail retweets? Great idea 🙂