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    Interactive Infographics: Our Choice Book

    Aug 3, 2011 By Sean in Infographics Tags: iPad, Mobile

    Software developer Mike Matas demos the first full-length interactive book for the iPad — with clever, swipeable video and graphics and some very cool data visualizations to play with.
    iTunes Link

    WebGL Demo: Minecraft in HTML5

    Aug 3, 2011 By Sean in Technology Tags: HTML5, Three.js

    WebGL Demo: Minecraft in HTML5

    Demo

    How Much is Your User Generated Content Worth?

    Aug 3, 2011 By Sean in Infographics Tags: Advertising, Social Networks, UGC

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    Art & Copy the Movie

    Aug 3, 2011 By Sean in Digital Strategy Tags: Brands, Copywriting, Creative

    Developing Apps for Chinese Android users

    Aug 3, 2011 By Sean in Digital Strategy Tags: Android, Apps

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    Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No it’s SmartBird, a large, lightweight robot, modeled on a seagull

    Jul 29, 2011 By Sean in Technology Tags: Robotics

    What Surprises the Dali Lama most about Humanity?

    Jul 29, 2011 By Sean in Remarkable People Tags: Life

    Man, because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then he dies having never really lived.

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    What does 15 Trillion Dollars Look Like?

    Jul 25, 2011 By Sean in Infographics Tags: American Dream, US Debt

    What does 15 Trillion Dollars Look Like?

    $15,000,000,000,000 – Unless the U.S. government fixes the budget, US national debt will topple 15 trillion by Christmas 2011.

    Via WTFNoWay

    Halong Bay – Hanoi, Vietnam

    Jul 24, 2011 By Sean in Nomadic Living Tags: Hanoi, Vietnam

    Halong Bay – Hanoi, Vietnam

    How to Win The Internet with Viral Content

    Jul 24, 2011 By Sean in Digital Strategy Tags: Social Media, Viral Content

    Awesome deck on growing your business on the social web through viral content.

    Via: Jonah Peretti

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    Buddha Park – Vientiane, Laos

    Jul 24, 2011 By Sean in Nomadic Living Tags: Laos, Vientiane

    Buddha Park – Vientiane, Laos

    Digital Europe: Mapping Twitter and Flickr Geo-Location

    Jul 24, 2011 By Sean in Infographics Tags: Flickr, Geo Location, Twitter

    Digital Europe: Mapping Twitter and Flickr Geo-Location

    The red dots are locations of Flickr pictures. Blue dots are locations of Twitter tweets. White dots are locations that have been posted to both.

    Via: Eric Fischer

    Doi Suthep Mountains – Chiang Mai, Thailand

    Jul 22, 2011 By Sean in Nomadic Living

    Doi Suthep Mountains – Chiang Mai, Thailand

    Atlanta, Georgia

    Jan 21, 2011 By Sean in Nomadic Living

    Atlanta, Georgia

    3D Projection Mapping – The Future of Advertising?

    Jun 14, 2010 By Sean in Digital Strategy Tags: 3D, Advertising, Digital, Digital Strategy, Projection Mapping

    The advertising worlds new crush – 3D projection mapping is making huge waves right now. Samsung, Nokia and BMW are all at the forefront – recently projecting their latest Ad campaigns using this new tech (all cleverly syndicating it online too).

    Here’s Samsung’s recent 3D projection mapping installation in Amsterdam to promote their new range of 3D LED TVs. Wow… (Sony who?)

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    7 iPad Apps for Information Junkies

    Jun 13, 2010 By Sean in Digital Strategy Tags: Apps, Information, iPad, Mobile, RSS

    So just like you or anyone else that has bought an iPad recently – I have downloaded, deleted, purchased, searched, researched, reviewed and installed multiple iPad Apps.

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    How the Fortune 100 use Social Media

    Jun 13, 2010 By Sean in Infographics

    I wrote a guest blog post for the social media conference iStrategy. It’s based on a report by the super smart public relations and communications firm Burson Marsteller. Thought I’d share the accompanying infographic here for you to see…(Click image to view in Hi Res format).

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    Dropbox Startup Lessons Learned

    Apr 25, 2010 By Sean in Digital Strategy

    • Learn early, learn often
    • Best practices aren’t always best
    • Know your market type and how your product fits into your users life

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    iStrategy 2010 – Moving Away From Campaigns To Constant Engagement

    Feb 14, 2010 By Sean in Digital Strategy Tags: coke, Digital Strategy, social communities, Social Media, Strategy

    Back from Berlin @iStrategy2010, a social media strategy event that was jam packed with awesome speakers, brilliant digital marketers and lots of great insightful actionable insights. For those who couldn’t make it you can find a couple of the iStrategy presentations/workshops on Slideshare.

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    Exquisite Analytics Visualisation Excel App

    Nov 7, 2009 By Sean in Digital Strategy Tags: Analytics, Data Visualization

    Mikael Thuneberg has created a lovely google analytics > excel tool for visualising your web data. It allows you to break down your data via metric/dimension producing exquisite charts for your marketing team to quickly gain actionable insight within a blink of an eye…

    Check out the examples below utilising web data of this blog.

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    A Conversation with Tim Berners-Lee – Web2.0 Summmit

    Oct 25, 2009 By Sean in Technology

    Tim Berners-Lee talks with Tim O’Reilly about the future of the internet, Web 2.0, HTML5, social networks, web apps, trust, FOAF and the mobile web.

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    Visualise Your Web Sites Visitors On Google Maps Using Fusion Tables

    Jun 29, 2009 By Sean in Digital Strategy Tags: Analytics, Data Visualization, Google

    Presenting your monthly SEO campaign results to the Board at the end of the week?
    In need of some killer data visualisations to break up the excel charts and make your audience super excited about their companies search marketing campaigns?

    Say Hello to your new friend Google Fusion Tables.

    Google Fusion Tables

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    Essential SEO Tools For Firefox

    Jun 13, 2009 By Sean in Digital Strategy

    If you work as as an Search Engine Optimiser (SEO) chances are that you use Firefox as your main Browser (2nd  -  Chrome for quick research assignments/social networking,  3rd – Internet Explorer for backwards compatibility browser testing).

    As we all know the power of a great application lies in it’s ability to be fully customisable and extended to however the user requires – Firefox doesn’t disappoint here. For SEO’s those extended requirements are to be able to see key information about clients, competitors websites  – there is no other browser on the market that comes close to be able to review/research sites, links, code etc for SEO’s. FireFox is the browser of choice for the professionals in the industry.

    A couple of days a go Mozilla introduced Add-on collections. Add on collections are a way to share your favourite plugins with the community and help highlight the best extensions out there…

    Watch this cool introduction video on how to browse, create, install collections.

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    Page Speed – A new Page Loading Tool From Google

    Jun 4, 2009 By Sean in Digital Strategy Tags: Google, Page Speed, Web App

    Google launched a new tool today that will be of interest to UX geeks – Page Speed. It is an open-source Firefox/Firebug Add-on that produces immediate suggestions on how you can supercharge your web pages to improve their speed. The tool is very similar to Yahoo’s YSlow which is also Firebug addon.

    Page Load is an important element of user experience and “SEO”. We all know Big G loves fast loading websites and will rank them higher in the SERPS. This tool is definitly worth checking out to get some extra ideas on how to improve your speed (apart from better web hosting).

    A few tips for faster loading websites from past experience….

    1. Use CDN’s (Content Delivery Networks) for user generated content, media files, js frameworks etc.
    2. Reduce the number of HTTP requests
    3. Put CSS at the top of your document
    4. Combine Multiple CSS files into One
    5. Gzip Compress all your external files (can reduce upto 70% of response size – big win).

    I recommend downloading both Page Speed & YSlow to any serious web entrepreneur – every second counts….

    Fast response times foster higher flow states (Skadberg & Kimmel
    2004), higher conversion rates (Akamai 2007), higher perceived
    trustworthiness (Nielsen 1999) – Andrew King.

    Wolfram Alpha – Exploring the Computational Universe

    May 17, 2009 By Sean in Technology Tags: Wolfram

    Wolfram Alpha the first step in an ambitious, long-term project to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone became Conscious this Weekend.

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    5 Essential GreaseMonkey Scripts to Super Charge Google Analytics

    Apr 22, 2009 By Sean in Digital Strategy Tags: Analytics, Greasemonkey

    If you have been reading my tweets recently you will see I have been linking out to a number of useful GreaseMonkey Scripts that help improve Google Analytics in various ways – improved social media metrics, improved keyword trends etc.

    For those of you that don’t know what Greasemonkey is – in short it’s a FireFox plug-in that allows you to customize the way a web page displays using small bits of JavaScript.

    One of the first things I do in the morning while having breakfast is review my clients analytics data – From conversions to search traffic to goals and paid keywords effectiveness etc.

    Over time I have discovered some essential Greasemonkey scripts for Google Analytics that have helped me “go deeper” into the data – listed below are my top five…

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    22 Smart, Inspirational Quotes From Bloggers In 2008

    Apr 1, 2009 By Sean in Digital Strategy Tags: Blogging, Presentation

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