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Glug – The Collaboration Economy
Last night an entire rows-worth of MB’ers headed down to Glug, the ‘notworking’ regular design talk which always pulls in a lot of great names from the design industry and this one was no different, selling out within a matter…
Firebrand insight: Google, googles, googled, googler
‘Don’t be evil’, the unofficial Google motto has served them well over the years. A little more palatable than the corporate mission ‘to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.’ But both cement the intentions of…
Firebrands insight: Yahoo. Struggling to be a serious contender
Yahoo’s stated goal is to personalise the digital world for its users, yet its social strategy is currently failing to connect to people on a deep or especially human level. On Twitter and Facebook, Yahoo’s style is purely broadcast rather…
The 40 Pixel Puppeteer
For myself and 350 million other Google Gmail users, the omnipresent black topnav has been capturing more than its share of web experience. Google is continually positioning itself as the operating system of the web. (hence the Chrome push) From…
FastCo launch their InnovativeNess rankings
Fast Company have launched their annual list of the World’s 50 most Innovative Companies. No surprises that the top four spots go to Apple, Facebook, Google and Amazon respectively. Slightly more controversially, Square edged out Twitter for the number 5…
Where’s the ka-pow!?
The way people consume content is not just changing rapidly, but it has already changed significantly. DC Comics – adapting to the moving world and thus expanding onto other platforms; other areas where the brand needed to live – turned…
2011 Round Up Part Five
When I was asked to write my personal review of 2011 the first two things that popped into my head weren’t really design related. On the one hand we had to surrender to the über-pace of world events that shook…
15 Observations from CES 2012
MBSF’s Nick and Scott headed down to CES in Vegas last week. Here’s a beginners guide to what went down, and some eye-witness footage of the highlights everyone is talking about: 1/ Gesture based UI is going to play a…
Dipping our toe into Internet Week
Back in the studio after a fleeting trip down to Internet Week Europe Headquarters. First up was ‘A Fireside chat with Google’s Rikard Steiber & Chairman of IADAS David-Michel Davies.’ The fact that there was no actual fireplace was a…
