During the commercial hype of Secondlife, many brands considered whether they should jump on the band wagon of holding presence and gaining from the virtual economy. However, just like entering any other new foreign market, planning and decisions must not be hastily made. Chipuya Town is a proposed virtual replica of Tokyo’s Shibuya shopping district, [...]
Continue reading Chipuya Town I recently had a conversation about the trend of a ‘new method of keeping in touch‘ where short, pointless or irreverent updates such as text (Twitter, Facebook) picture (Radar) and video (Seemic) create a ”soft, ambient social activity that enables us to get to friends, colleagues, and acquaintances in a different way”. Related to this topic, is this [...]
Continue reading Open Privacy These roads use cars as tuning forks to play music as they travel. Currently there are three such roads in Japan with colored musical notes painted on the road that indicate when a song is coming up. Part art project, the system appears to have a hidden function: inducing very slow driving. Speeds faster than [...]
Continue reading Melody roads At the Own It: 3D Business, Reality or Fantasy? seminar, my friend asked a question regarding the user-friendliness of virtual world interfaces and here, I think Habbo Hotel’s new website provides some stimulus. Based on consumer research, the site was redesigned to provide its teen-users easier navigation and therefore a better experience. “With quick menus and personal ‘landing’ [...]
Continue reading Habbo Hotel 2.0 PSFK notes how instead of providing a $100 laptop, perhaps it be “better to provide the kids with smart phones”. This reminds me of a comment a colleague made during an internal meeting; she said in some countries (mainly BRIC?) people are completely skipping the ‘PC generation’ and heading straight to mobile phones for combined usage. [...]
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Aha, not me! *Happily taps away at his magic iPhone*
o2 certainly seem to be churning out big UK projects; having acquired and transformed the former Millennium Done into an entertainment hub and currently, holding exclusive UK rights to the iPhone. Now, they are working with Nokia and VISA PayWave to create a phone that takes a smiliar stance as the Barclay’s OnePulse card: a [...]
Continue reading o2 + Nokia + Visa PayWave Lily Allen’s new TV show due early next year, could to be an attempt to blend online activity with the home television set. “Based around her MySpace success, the audience will consist entirely of Lily’s online friends, who will also have exclusive access to behind-the-scenes footage and can sign up to have highlights sent directly [...]
Continue reading Lily Allen and Friends Apparently, even ‘grandma doesn’t want to dress as grandma’. Does this mean that in the future, everyone will look/dress “young”? Women are passing up conservative-type clothing from Talbots, Ann Taylor, Lord & Taylor, Bloomingdale’s, Liz Claiborne and Jones New York for sexy and hipster fashions at Zara and Forever21. Other existing run-of-the-mill fashion labels such as Liz Claiborne’s Juicy Couture and VF Corp’s recently [...]
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I always got the impression that “elderly” fashion today is when the person in question 1. Stops growing therefore doesn’t need to purchase new clothes, 2. Stops following fashion, maybe through change of priorities, or just loss of interest.
So that leads me to think that what the elderly wear now, was fashionable for them.
So I think it will work in a similar way for us. When we’re old, we won’t dress like our grandmas and grandads, we’ll dress like we do now. Which “is” youthful, well at least for us. But by then, surely youthful fashion has moved on to something else!
Photowalking is “an activity amongst members of photosharing communities. Essentially long jaunts where the point is to take pictures of everything encountered, photowalkers use Web 2.0 sites such as Flickr, Zoomr and Facebook to connect with others, organise walks and share their resulting images”. I wonder whether this would dramatically increase competition in the industry and cause [...]
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You could say the same for internet bloggers saturating the media, or wikipedians reducing the number of high-quality encyclopedic articles.
There will always be a spectrum of low to high quality content, but with the increase of highly collaborative Web 2.0 sites such as Wikipedia and Flickr, there is indeed “power to the people”
Who says professionals make better content than amateurs anyway, the open-source software movement has already proved this!
Nick Zinner (guitarist of band the ‘Yeah Yeah Yeahs’) beautifully concluded an article about Western pop acts in China: “playing in China was something the band had wanted to do for years. When asked why, Mr. Zinner opened his eyes wide and looked at the crowd of the well-dressed young Chinese. “It’s the future,” he said.” [...]
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Michael Voong is discussing.
Michael Voong 13:51 on November 30, 2007 Permalink |
Thanks Danni :D keep the posts coming. Privacy control is such an important issue, and has been highlighted yet again by the results of my privacy survey in location-aware applications.
Another question for you – should lying be supported by location-aware computer systems? We can lie when we’re asked where we are, so why can’t we override locations on computer systems? This is different from simply hiding data from others by incorporating a “silent” mode.