Gizmo explores the kitchen

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Its still about the content

A while ago, I bought one of those Creative VADO videocams. Really cool gadget, great for creating short clips and publishing them to the likes of YouTube for sharing. If you have good content to film, of course. And that’s the problem with user-generated content. The web is filled with rubbish – videos of pets...

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Change

This morning I saw a story on CNN about change.gov. It’s a website set up by the Obama transition team to harvest ideas and feedback on their policies, priorities and so on. When browsing for it, I accidentally discovered another “change” website. This one is change.org, calling itself a “social action network”. The great thing...

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Merry christmas

Fair dinkum, its been another busy couple of weeks. I’m aware that I haven’t written an update to my blog for a while, so, friends and family far and wide, here’s a quick one. We had another highly successful pre-xmas spectacular sale day last week at M & S – 20 % off absolutely everything...

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Fair dinkum, what a week

I made my usual call to Hector yesterday. He’s both my dad and one of my best mates, and its great how alike we think. I told him the story of Thursday, of how I was handing out leaflets for the sale at our Marble Arch store and then the competition turned up. “I hope...

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Proud but not lucky

Yesterday, one of my good friends in the US sent me a link to the blog of a mutual friend. I had only met him a couple of times and had lost touch with what he had been up to. It was wonderful to see that he had become married to his partner – but...

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Thinking like a net-gener

Yesterday I read Don Tapscott’s brilliant article about net geners and work in the Guardian. (He was the guy who wrote the excellent book, Wikinomics). He talks about a whole generation of people who want to work for organisations where “work” equals “fun”. And how these people, if correctly fostered by organisations, could drive their...

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Playing with google optimiser

Last week I discovered Google Website Optimiser. It’s a great free service that allows you to perform some simple A/B and multivariate tests on a website. And it helped me to understand more about what these types of tests are, and how to set them up. First, A/B Testing. Put simply, A/B testing is where...

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