Archive for April, 2011
Can Your CV Do This?
Completely creative use of QR codes sets Victor Petit’s resume apart from others – and lands him a job. It all started with a one-page resume. Simple enough – but way too common. Instead of fighting for attention with brilliant designs or a clever uncommon font, Victor Petit applied for a Digital Communications role by [...]
LinkedIn Reveals: What’s In A Name?
According to research by a new study by LinkedIn, these are the names that highlight job prestige. At the top of the list for CEO’s, it’s “Peter” for men and “Deborah” for women. The study also found that mose men’s names tend to be shortened as nicknames which shows the direct relationship between being open [...]
Royal Wedding will be Tweetless
Westminster Abbey installing signal-jamming technology to keep the wedding, a wedding. Members of the royal family have collaborated with police and security to introduce the systems which they hope will cut down on distractions during the ceremony. The main concerns of the organisers were Twitter, photography, video recording and message and call ringtones. Buckingham Palace [...]
Political Correctness? How Big Brands are Saying F*ck You to Tradition
Political Correctness. The ‘tasteful’ core ingredient in financially sapping television campaigns. Online, specifically YouTube and its comedy counterpart Funny Or Die, has changed all that and made producing and marketing videos so economically sound and viewerships equivalent to Powerball jackpots. Normal, polished videos just don’t cut it online, so brands, in an attempt to connect [...]
Does this convicted felon own 50% of Facebook?
Paul Ceglia is unknown, even unnanounced in The Social Network movie – but his current lawsuit could change all that. Despite all the controversies with the Winklevoss twins and Eduardo Saverin, we all thought Facebook was undoubtedly Zuckerberg’s. However, a new lawsuit claiming a written contract and an exchanged $1,000 arises from a convicted conman [...]
General Practitioners now have a chance at being paperless
Dr Crono is an iPad app developed to log and show everything a medical practitioner could ever need. The App, which has only just been released into Beta testing mode, has been designed to sync with current medical software, meaning it could even do away with computers in the surgery. Physicians can schedule/change appointments, write [...]
April 16 is now Foursquare Day
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg officially proclaims April 16th to be ‘Foursquare Day’. What started as a comical and off the cuff remark by a Foursquare user, has now escalated into a full-scale event of recognition. Nate Bonilla Warford commented last year that because four-squared is 16, therefore 16/04 should be called Foursquare Day – [...]
Case Study: Why Social Technology is Killing Retail
It used to all be about bricks and mortar – in fact – that was the only way you could be taken seriously back only a few years. Walking through one of Queensland’s busiest shopping centre just last week, on a school holiday on ‘late night’ trade, I came to notice a trend that may [...]
Unbelievable New Mercedes, Loaded with Tablet Tech
The once boring A-class Mercedes Benz were reserved for the lower end Mercedes market, or those looking for an entry point to the luxury car market. Perhaps now even the ‘forgettable’ A-class is now out of reach. Mercedes-Benz have completely redesigned and flipped the new generation A-class to a level unmatched by any car manufacturer. [...]
Crying YouTube Kid Becomes Governor of New Jersey
A crying wish from a three-year old boy on YouTube is granted – for one day only. Well that proves it. If you can’t get your own way, just cry and it’ll happen. The 2009 video shows Jesse Koczon as a three-year old, crying because he is too small to be a governor – and [...]
