The wife mopped into the living room recently; Kindle in hand, downtrodden look on her face, the Kindle screen showing all the telltale signs of an LCD screen that has recently come second in a fight with a foot. Yes – the worst had happened. the Kindle had been stood on and now is was [...]
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Why no one cares that the Kindle is unreliable
Posted: 9th October 2011 by boboshady in Digital Commentary, General Content, I Like MoaningHP Touchpad – the best marketing ploy ever seen?
Posted: 31st August 2011 by boboshady in Development, Digital Commentary, General Content, ProfessionalLast week, I had an argument with a friend about HP’s decision to drop out of the hardware market and their attempts to shift warehouses full of unwanted HP Touchpad stock at the firesale price of £89 (or $99 in the US). I put forward the notion that, with the Touchpad launching with such tepid [...]
Presence Overload
Posted: 14th August 2011 by boboshady in Digital Commentary, General Content, I Like MoaningI am one again reviewing my online presence – this blog was originally intended to be the first step in bringing everything together, and yet I find myself using it less and living more on twitter and, more recently, tumblr. Well, I say I live more on those services…I’m actually using them less than I [...]
Your children will be DBA’s
Posted: 5th June 2011 by boboshady in Digital Commentary, General ContentI had a brief but very interesting and thought-provoking discussion with the missus this weekend about how our generation will ‘remember’ their lives in fundamentally different ways to any before it. It was provoked by Google’s latest advert for Chrome, where a ‘dad’ is emailing his new born daughter the daily goings-on of her life [...]
Properly Positioning Your Proposition
Posted: 19th May 2011 by boboshady in Development, Digital Commentary, ProfessionalI’ll keep this one nice and short. In summary, I was chatting with a friend the other day and we were discussing something she’s working on and the feedback she’d received from a recent panel review of her idea. The upsum was, make sure you’re concentrating on the right people when you’re putting your idea [...]
Gamification in Action
Posted: 19th May 2011 by boboshady in Development, Digital Commentary, ProfessionalI blogged recently about gamification and game theory (actually on my employer’s blog, repeated here). I thought I’d quickly follow that up now with some examples of where this sort of thing is already happening, just so you’re clearer on both the obvious and less obvious instances of such things. Firstly, let’s look at one [...]
The downfall of Android?
Posted: 16th May 2011 by boboshady in Apple, Digital Commentary, General ContentAsk anyone I know with a smartphone and they’ll confirm that I’m a big advocate of iOS and a general naysayer of anything else. Mostly, it’s done in jest – I do actually like Android and PalmOS (and I’m about to find out what WinMob 7 is all about), but I do honestly believe that [...]
Setting Realistic and Strategically Relevant KPIs
Posted: 16th May 2011 by boboshady in Development, Digital Commentary, ProfessionalSomething I see a lot when reading through client briefs and tender documents in general is a list of Key Performance Indicators – essentially a list of what the client will use to measure the success of their new website. When I don’t see them listed, I ask for them as they’re vital in being [...]
Gamification and Game Theory – How It Applies to Your Digital Strategy
Posted: 15th May 2011 by boboshady in Development, Digital Commentary, ProfessionalGamification, and to a lesser extent Game Theory, are terms you’re going to be hearing a lot of over the next six months or so. They are going to be used in the context of digital marketing strategies, and will probably be poorly explained to you. But what actually are they, and should you really [...]
Second Layer Insight – Concept Launch
Posted: 22nd November 2011 by boboshady in Digital Commentary, General Content, ProfessionalI won’t put the full post here, but it’s worth a cross-link – Today I launch the name of something you’re all going to care about in the future. http://boboshady.tumblr.com/post/13156694331/second-layer-insight