These my micropostings and bookmarks – July 18th through August 6th:

• 22 Michaels: How we tripled our sales using YouTube – Good article on capitalising on Haul Video
• Toshiba brings texture to touch (video) — Engadget – Tactic feedback on a touchpad.
• Compete | Compete – Hitwise meets Alexa. Some useful info free, especially the site to site comparisons.
• Matt Ridley: When ideas have sex | Video on TED.com – Tools evolve more slowly than skeletons, trade is 100,000 years older than farming… stimulating presentation on trade and sharing as the root of human progress and innovation.
• Apple’s Real Achilles Heel – Umair Haque – Harvard Business Review – Apple is a 20th century company dressed as a 21st century one.

These my micropostings and bookmarks – June 28th through July 17th:

• Twitter’s Ascension in Japan – Thomas Crampton – Twitter = mumble, the liking for blogging anonymously, and a haiku-esque brevity all help Twitter fare well in Japan. Neat article.
• Slow fashion: forever yours | Life and style | The Guardian – A new trend towards not having trends? 😉

  Attractive-sounding approach – neo-classics and perennials – emphasising quality and fitness to purpose over the ‘wastefulness’ of fast fashion… Difficult to see this as more than a curated ‘new trend’ to replace the justificiation each year of buying a ‘new twist on a classic’, routine, however the trend to a mixed, eclectic approach is certainly interesting.

  Can’t help thinking, however, it’s just called being a grown-up rather than 18 years old, and sad to see that we’re now calling a ‘mixed price-point’ assortment “egalitarian”… the revolutionaries at the barricades were not after the right to mix Hermes with Bic, or to storm the Bastille wearing Converse as well as Laboutin!

• Insert Batteries Any Way You Like With Microsoft Instaload | Fast Company – Great idea. Even though it’s been a long time coming, it’s something to enjoy just of itself.
• Organic Magazine Theme – Nice wordpress organic theme…
• High Line 2 Sneak Peek: Lounging Lawn, Flyovers, and the “Chelsea Thicket” | Fast Company – Nice article and sneak peak on activity at The High Line in NYC. Really inspiring and a wonderful experience within the ur-city of New York.

  Thanks again to @tlittleton for advising me to visit 🙂

These my micropostings and bookmarks – May 28th through June 28th:

• The Ultimate List: 300+ Social Media Statistics – Erk. 300+? Social Mediaites sure love their statistics about social media… and then put them into such purty videos too!
• Nice-looking and configurable twitter ticker (eduVoyage: Ruby on Rails Development) –
• MILLENNIALS AND ENTERPRISE2.O « Futures-Diagnosis – Quoth Norman in considering this myth, as a prelude to Enterprise2.0

  “The myth of digital whizzkids

  The myth of the digital whizzkid needs to be challenged for four reasons:

  First, because it mistakenly assumes that young people effortlessly adopt digital technology into their lives because they are into the technology;
  Secondly, because the myth of digitally savvy children is actually an expression of adult confusion about how to conduct their relations with children, which has little to do with children’s relationship to the new media;
  Third, because it flatters children instead of critically engaging them in a quest to engage more fully with the technology itself; to understand the science and mathematics behind the magic of the digital world;
  Fourth, because by reducing adults to the level of children in need of expert guidance, it infantilises serious questions regarding collaboration in the workplace.”

• Brian Skerry reveals ocean’s glory — and horror | Video on TED.com – Wonderful underwater photography, with a tough message.
• iPhone vs. Android | Nielsen Wire – Some nice, current factoids on usage and demographics between iPhone and Android users. Nicest of all a section on the respective desires to stick with their OS on their next phone…
• If the past is a palimpsest, what are we? | MetaFilter – Recovered and fabricated memory…

  “happiness is more important than truth” in evolutionary terms.

These my micropostings and bookmarks – April 30th through May 23rd:

• web based CRM software – online contact manager – absoluteBUSY – Interesting-looking hosted CRM solution. Works well and quickly on a Mac and the structure looks neat. Can’t see how to import/export though, nor how to operate with other systems of feeds, but logged here so I can find it later.
• Facebook Leaks Usernames, User IDs, and Personal Details to Advertisers – Very clear deconstruction of how FB passes user information – username, city, age, gender – to advertisers. It’d be a simple problem to resolve globally, so must assume that this is part of their plan?

  Thanks to Antony for pointing this out.

• The Biggest Challenges for a Conference Program Director – Monique gives a lucid view on the challenges for a conference director, articulating well the balance between a conference that people want to attend and the marketing thereof. Rings many bells.

  The format of the video interview is neat too (apart from the sofa – yak!) – brief video, with the key points in text below.

• Etacts – Social plugin for gmail. Tracks contact activity, sets reminders, logs conversations, mass mailing and more.
• BBC News – Today – Audio slideshow: Eye examination – Really nice slideshow format.
• How Renting, Not Owning an iPhone Could Have Saved Gizmodo: Expert | Fast Company – Common sense, interesting angle and well-written to boot.

These my micropostings and bookmarks – April 22nd through April 24th:

• ‘Skinput’ – BBC News – Sensors turn skin into gadget control pad – Following from the Patti Maes ‘Sixth Sense’ presentation at TED here’s further work on ‘bio’ input methods – this time us skin.

  Any technology with a good pun deserves to succeed 😉

• Almost Genius: The Cardboard Box That Fits Anything Perfectly | Fast Company – Elegant and efficient packing.
• Reboot: Puma and Yves Béhar Spend Three Years Designing Super-Green Shoebox | Fast Company – Great design – sustainable, elegant, ruthless and stonkingly desirable. The box is nicer than the contents 😉
• Augmented Contact Lenses Cover Your Eye with a Screen of 100s of LEDs | Inhabitat – Green Design Will Save the World – This is an update on the contact lenses I covered in my Future of Digital Marketing keynote.

  I said 18 months for progress – they’ve achieved more in I predicted, and in half the time.

• The White House unleashes AdWords against Wall Street | Econsultancy – “Imagine for a minute that you’re the president of the United States and you’re trying to make the case against Wall Street. What’s the best way to do it? As the president, you have almost unlimited access to the traditional media, but that’s not always enough today.

  So U.S. president Barack Obama, whose use of the internet arguably helped him win the presidency, isn’t relying on the mainstream media to promote his Wall Street reform agenda; he’s using Google. And he’s going straight for the jugular by bidding on topical keywords related to embattled investment bank Goldman Sachs.”

These my micropostings and bookmarks – March 14th through April 8th:

• Thin and Bright: Rosco LED LitePads | B&H Photo Video Pro Audio – Something else for the “must get some soon” list…
• Atom Activity Base Schema (Draft) – Starting point to document and define the fields and data formats in an ‘activity-based schema’ to support lifestreaming etc. Consider alongside APML and microformats.
• 6 Thoughts About Location Madness – Marshall Kirkpatrick on RWW with thoughts on location-based services and whether they’re the new new thing…
• Category Templates « WordPress Codex – Really useful page describing how WordPress selects which template to use for an archive listing, and how to add a custom template for individual categories. We are using this to create ‘microsites’ of categories on internetretailing.net. Well-described.
• SnowValley – “Thank you for your order pages” Gallery – A gallery of 134 “Thank you for your order” pages from their 2009 christmas order/checkout/delivery report. Nice.

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 –