Monthly Archives for January 2009

Social networks and Twitter in Austria

Inspired by Nico’s post and my own intuition I check the search queries for social networks and Twitter in Austria on Google trends. It turned out the Facebook already overtook StudiVZ in September 2008. Obviously this is not connect to … Continue reading

29. January 2009 by Stefan
Categories: Interesting | Tags: , , , , | 2 comments

Video games start spreading

Today in the morning I saw for the first time a granny sitting in the Budapest metro and totally engaged playing with her Nintendo DS lite. It’s hard to figure out if she played Brain Age (which is targeted to … Continue reading

28. January 2009 by Stefan
Categories: Wildlife | Tags: , , , | 1 comment

Life’s for sharing

The first time that a brand could use sucessfully a flash mob. Great idea and cool to watch. Life’s for sharing and this message comes directly across. Seems like that T-mobile wants to start working on their image the second … Continue reading

21. January 2009 by Stefan
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Generation F

Generations are extended periods of time that symbolize societal values, lifestyles and pop culture that are representative for this era. On Wikipedia you can find a list of Generations in America. The current Generation is labeled as Generation Z. Members … Continue reading

20. January 2009 by Stefan
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Experience is the new reality

Another scenario what might happen in the future and like many other scenarios we will not take this serious. Obviously it won’t happen in exact this way because most of the scenarios are an forecast of extremes and don’t pay … Continue reading

14. January 2009 by Stefan
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Obama logo design

Creative director Sol Sender (VSA partners) takes about the development of the Obama logo and the planning behind the campaign. Interesting to hear a bit more what happened behind the scenes of the Obama campaign and how it progressed. The … Continue reading

13. January 2009 by Stefan
Categories: Planning | 1 comment

The hunt for creativity

I found this great video about the creativity juice on Paul Isakson’s blog. And it started to make me think about creativity and it’s origin and purpose. Who are the people that can help us to solve problems in a … Continue reading

08. January 2009 by Stefan
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7 years of 3G hype in Asia

This tweet of Harald Felgner lead me to a super interesting presentation of Benjamin Joffe about the main findings and learnings of 7 years of 3G service in Japan, Korea and China. Is 3G a Dog or a Demon – … Continue reading

06. January 2009 by Stefan
Categories: Business | Tags: , , , | 4 comments