Mohammad Iqbal writes a dangerous manifesto on ChangeThis.com claiming the traditional “one-value” brand is an old institution which should be put to rest. The solution…
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I don’t know what they were thinking over at Nordea when they agreed to this poster, hanging in their storefront window on Solli Plass. Translation:…
Aftenposten writes about knocka.tv and current.tv in a form that makes them stand out as the next generation video content websites. But what is so…
Read the PostDoes Aftenposten get it all wrong? The old generation video websites launch
For a long time I have said that in traffic don’t always follow the rules, but follow the pattern. What I would mean by that…
Read the PostPatterns and predictability of traffic and design
Don’t forget the silver haired consumers. European research showing that 55+ consumers are spending on average 8.8 hours surfing the internet a week. In Norway…
Read the Post“silversurfers”; an important targetgroup with clear presence on the net
Neuromarketing claims that “committed party voters did not process information in a rational or analytical manner.” (link). Would this also apply to: “people in love…
Not exactly rocket science but researchers at The Karolinska Institute have identified the Basal Ganglia in the brain as important when filtering out interruptions when…
Paco Underhill would have killed for this. Like Real-Time Rome in a much smaller scale. The ability to track peoples movement inside a shop without…
An article discussing the first mobile phone for newspapers. Funny thing is that newspapers are threatening to pull their content from the mobile internet unless…
Read the PostBlaming the unsuccessfulness of mobile phones as content carriers on the startpage?
Everybody is discussing Google’s new launch; Knol. On the official Google Blog. jeremiah Owyang Stowe Boyd Robert Scoble The BBC +++ But this isn’t only…
After being mesmerized by Erin McKeen on both Ted and PopTech I changed from defending the beauty of the original language to embracing the energizing…
Viral is the spreading of ideas from hive to hive with the help of “sneezers”. (Seth Godin) Now, this resent research from ChoiceStream (via NeeTeeVee)…
The graph showing New York Times gaining 7.5 milion visitor after turning of it’s pay-program indicates quite clearly the incentive of giving away your content…
I still can’t figure out why most shops on the internett cater almost exclusively to customers who already have decided what to purchase and are…
Read the Post56 percent want to feel confident and convinced
An article in Aftenposten (print edition) summarizes a very interesting Norwegian survey concerning how below 30-year olds use The Facebook. Classmates and childhood friends top…
It’s almost become a standard that web2.0 startups or internet service companies ad a personal tone on their descriptive texts around their website/application. This has…
Another thorough briefing from Trendwatching sums up 8 trends for 2008. Althouh I just want to recommend going over to their site and reading it,…
Two topics that I have seen discussed concerning “friendships” in social networks: – Why do you have all these “friends” it’s not like you’re going…
Read the PostCybertribing on the Internet, why we have so many friends on social networks
Google is carefully trying out a bit of paticipatory functionality on an “opt-in and sign up” part of their page. As I have talked about…
Read the PostGoogle tests searcher participation in algorithms
Just two snippets from an article by Mona Patel ( Influencing the customer experience through the internet) over at mycustomer.com. Mona argues the case…
Read the PostCommunicating to both the rational and emotional parts of the brain
Anand Agarawala of BumpTop proclaimed this (see title) during his TED presentation of the BumpTop software in March 2007. A quote I might even be…
A short listen to two podcasts from the Usability master of rhetoric, Jarred Spool, brings up an interesting point: – People don’t want to search,…
Skelliewag.org pulls of an extremely useful 2-part series on how to find good images on Flickr. The first post is about the LAW…. which pictures…
Stop trying to bludgeon your customers to death with unmotiated text and imagery. The time for richer experiences on the net is finally here, and…
Are 3rd party sites a good, persuasive motivator. Or a bad branding decision? While doing some big pitch research for a service provider a onth…
They say memans ( fancy word for self-centered humans ) spent 5 000 000 years to invent wheels on their suitcases. In that case, the…
Three recent studies enhance my belief in Ken Robinsons adage that intelligence is as much found and created through visual and expressive language as the…
They say you can’t trust Alexa anymore (or really that you never could :o( After first messing it up majorly with Google and YouTube and…
Read the PostTwo strikes and your out, no more trust in Alexa
It is a challenge figuring out how consumers 5$ movies can fit into one’s own million dollar adproduction without destroying the whole flow, taste and…
Have you ever come across the demand to make the design accessible to people who don’t use color? It is a “requirement” from the people…
Excellent use of double ads, video and lightboard to, once again, take the piss out of Vista. Nad it looks especially nice against the boring…
Read the PostThe lightboard is back, Mac reinvents – with the proper use of additional tools
Steve Garfield‘s number two rule of videoblogging: Keep it short. (first one is still passion). (View video) I believe this applies to all kinds of…
Orange continous it’s marvellous campaign beyond this site. This video, as far as I can gather from Iain, it’s released as an interactive tv-commercial. By…
I’ve been watching and listening to these movies posted on New Tee Vee for the last hour now. Some people are amazing… Combine that with…
Read the PostMusic, mastery, entertainment and out of the box