Ashamed to say that I have only come across these guys recently – the price you pay for being engrossed in your work I guess. I’m very, very struck by the tone of what is

The gift economy was a buzz topic a while ago – but it should be taken back out and re-examined in light of social media advances

Presentation from Paul Adams, Senior User Experience Researcher at Google, putting ‘social’ into a real life context. Grounded, visionary, excellent.

Why hasn’t anyone told media agencies, no one likes getting shouted at?

Consumers are changing their media consumption habits fast. Actually, ‘consumption’ itself is no longer a useful approximation. The GenY of marketeers needs to be playful & experiment with social, mobile & brand engagement marketing ideas.

There’s lots of good insight coming in on how people really are living with their iPad, and what’s in the pipeline from the competition. This is messier than I would like, but as ever time is tight…