Luxury brands and social media.
Good overview of online styling sites, making the parallel with Netflix.
No-one’s quite cracked the formula here yet. Personally I think data’s only part of it.
Might Apple’s next iPhone actually be the iPhone 6? It will, after all, be the sixth iPhone:
1. iPhone
2. iPhone 3G
3. iPhone 3GS
4. iPhone 4
5. iPhone 4S
6. ????????
The iPhone 4 name made sense, because it was the fourth iPhone. The iPhone 3G made sense because, well, it was 3G.
Perhaps it will be the iPhone 4G, if, as rumoured, it’s a 4G phone. But if Apple go with sequence numbering, rather than a name based on its features, shouldn’t it be the iPhone 6, not the much touted “iPhone 5”?
(PS - I’m sure it won’t be, but thought I’d stake an early claim to some iPhone 6 SEO)
Gamification of Coding: Codecademy -
This might, finally, get me learning to code again.
Now can someone please gamify learning to play Bluegrass banjo?
Two former eBay colleagues today launched their next generation job ad platform Adzuna, offering ‘jobs in London, the UK and beyond’ and integrating some nice social features.
‘Adzuna Connect’ allows you to find out which of your connections work at the companies who are currently hiring: nice to see some social innovation in the recruitment space.
More specifically, one of the six to complain about the BMI Business Class flights ‘offer’
Last year I played a game of Settlers of Catan with my friends Sevitz and Marc plus comedian Dave Gorman at The Ship in Wandsworth. We asked Dave if we were to be the victims of a new book about playing games with strangers, but he denied it. Lo and behold about a month ago Dave Gorman vs. the Rest of the World hit the bookshelves. Here’s where I get introduced. I can’t really complain about the Kiefer Sutherland reference, but home counties? And chinos?
Whilst passing through Gatwick airport recently, I was curious to see the airport using Internet of Things startup StickyBits to keep travellers updated on progress with building works.
I stumbled upon this in the app store today, recommended to me via Genius after I’d downloaded the ‘Do Some Good’ app.
The folk at the London School of Economics behind the Mappiness app are trying to get better data on what makes people happy, using iPhones as data-logging devices to randomly record levels of happiness and the associated circumstances.
George MacKerron explains in more detail at the TEDxBrighton event:
It’s somewhat ironic that two recent incidents have served to highlight how the internet, constructed and architected to provide a robust, fault-tolerant computer network has become susceptible to single points of failure.
Then Amazon’s cloud computing and storage service, EC2 fell-over, bringing down services like Quora, Foursquare and London’s Vzaar video service.
First a pensioner in Georgia reportedly managed to literally cut off Armenia’s internet access by hacking through fibre-optic cables with a spade.
On that note, I’m escaping the world of online for a week to get into the Lake District fells. I’m curious to see if Ambleside is showing the same love for Facebook as Argentina and the Yorkshire Dales.