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Does an Entrepreneur lose flair over time ?

Published 1 year, 8 months ago in Trend, Business and Marketing. 0 Comments

Bill Nguyen, a serial entrepreneur explains in a CNN Money article why he feels that his experience has pushed him to be less bold in his approach and thus probably takes off an edge he would have had on ‘the market’, the first time round :
“Here’s what I think about the whole serial entrepreneur thing: […]

Washing your hands can save lives

Published 1 year, 8 months ago in Trend and Society. 0 Comments

Just came across a very interesting blog and article explaining that a recent study demonstrates beyond doubt that hospitals were employees systematically wash their hands decrease deaths due to infections. The article explains how “the current New England Journal of Medicine reports on a study conducted in Michigan hospitals” :
And it worked, big-time. “The results […]

Outsmarted by your smart phone

Published 1 year, 10 months ago in Tech, Trend, Software and Smartphone. 0 Comments

I have read various articles about how you should not leave your old PC with just anybody, more specifically your hard drive, and use software like cyberscrub myself. I was not surprised to read that Smartphones retain extremely sensitive information about you, even after a reset. WashingtonPost explain how a Smartphone user had encrypted banking […]

Longing for a really unique and luxury iPod again

Published 1 year, 11 months ago in Design, Personal, Trend, Music and Video. 0 Comments

The Washington Post writes about the iPod and how with iTunes it holds nearly 70 percent of the market. When I bought my first (and only) iPod several years ago it was a luxury product. The iPod has kept key functions and design concepts while getting smaller thinner and more powerful.

Even though the new iPods […]

You Tube : the phenomenon

Published 1 year, 11 months ago in Trend, Video, Web and Marketing. 0 Comments

There is nothing like bad publicity the ad people will tell you. Well, You Tube is making the headlines with bad, good and excellent media coverage !
You Tube has made uploading video to the Internet in order to share it, a simple procedure. Sharing videos really is dead easy. Although tagging the content efficiently is […]

Madonna’s fashion holidays in Italy with H&M

Published 1 year, 11 months ago in Trend, Advertising, Society and Fashion. 0 Comments

Madonna in a track suit draped across Il Duomo in Milan courtesy of H&M !

© Red Label
When you have been instrumental in changing the way a fashion concious country like Italy views value for money clothes then making a statement in one of the fashion capitals of the world probably seems acceptable (IHT) :
Both […]

Lyle’s Golden Syrup is officially a UK icon

Published 1 year, 11 months ago in Trend, Advertising, Society, Marketing and Brand. 1 Comment

It seems that Lyle’s Golden Syrup has acquired the status of brand stardom since the Guiness Book of Records has officially recognized it as as Britain’s oldest brand !

Should you have suddenly acquired a craving for golden syrup just looking at the tin, then you’ll be happy to know that you can purchase some through […]

Time Zone change on Google Analytics

Published 1 year, 11 months ago in News, Tech, Trend, Blog, Web and Analytics. 4 Comments

I’ve been conversing with Google on getting my Time Zone changed from the default ‘Pacific Time’ (GMT-08:00), which is not very handy when you live in Europe like some of us
Please note that if your Analytics account is not linked to an AdWords account, you’ll be able to set your timezone preference […]

Bob Dylan plays for Apple

Published 1 year, 11 months ago in Design, Trend, Advertising, Music and Video. 0 Comments

Take a look at the recent advert for Apple’s iTunes & iPod, featuring Bob Dylan. The advert plays with the well known shadows concept commonly used in both iPod and iTunes ads, however each person in the ad like Dylan is recognisable regardless of the shadow effect…

Enjoy

What is next in blogging, please…

Published 1 year, 11 months ago in Trend, Blog, Software and Web. 0 Comments

Taking a look at the online photo industry may well give you the answer…
If you look at the new battle between Flickr (Yahoo) and Picasa (Google) then you could be faced with what will be happening soon in blogging.
Google is putting the heat on Flickr with its Picasa 2 beta that I have recently been […]