August 2011
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TV sport: Bud & FB hint at the future
lookatluca:
Some time ago I posted about what I considered was the untapped relationship-marketing potential of Formula 1, steeped as it continued to be in the world of free-to-air television and its somewhat retro business model.
So… Free-to-web is going to replace Free-to-air. And that’s ‘progress’?
In that case give me ‘retro’ any day.
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Why Android, not iOS, killed WebOS
Yesterday HP announced that it was killing of its WebOS-based phone and tablet products. It has also said that it will keep WebOS alive (in other areas), but, since HP doesn’t licence WebOS to any other mobile hardware manufacturers, if is clear that WebOS is dead as far as the mobile space is concerned.
Some bloggers have tried to hand the credit (if one can call it so, as I think this...
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The Great Disconnect: Why Riots were Inevitable
We have a society where almost half the eligible population feel that there is no point in voting - that the mechanisms that run our country have nothing to do with them. For certain age groups, such as the young, that proportion becomes the majority. So why do most young people feel that there is no point in voting, that there is no point in expressing their point of view about how the world...