January 13, 2013
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November 27, 2012

Manufacturing a huge Apple logo

Covent Garden Apple store

Great  video shown by Macnn - Apple retail leaders (including Ron Johnson, who has since left) provide insight into the thinking behind their stores. Picture credits unknown, Top: Finishing touches to giant Apple logo, below: Covent Garden Apple Store. HT: @Macnn

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October 17, 2012
Taken with Instagram

Taken with Instagram

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August 2, 2012
Looking up at me… (Taken with Instagram)

Looking up at me… (Taken with Instagram)

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July 4, 2012
Thinking about process and flows and assets, and revisiting Tumblr!

Thinking about process and flows and assets, and revisiting Tumblr!

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April 25, 2012
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March 16, 2012
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February 3, 2012
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January 27, 2012
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January 14, 2012
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October 13, 2011
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September 2, 2011

Yes, a few providers of highly successful time-killers can score good coin: Angry Birds has sold more than $300 million in downloads. But this equates to about 3 cents per hour of user time spent slinging those addictive birds. Similarly, celebrity gossip is probably worth 0.02 cents per page view. (Clueless marketing managers might currently pay more for banners nobody looks at, but eventually CPM for generic content and generic traffic will drop far below a dollar to match their real value. Advertising budgets won’t be misspent forever.)

Other mobile use is worth more: the minute I spent making a dinner reservation on the OpenTable app translated into $115 revenue for that restaurant and about a dollar for OpenTable itself. Let’s say $60/hour = 2,000 × the value of playing Angry Birds.

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July 25, 2011
Overheard on the tube at Charing X: Buzzcocks, that’s oldschool that is!

Overheard on the tube at Charing X: Buzzcocks, that’s oldschool that is!

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July 2, 2011
Awaiting the pride march (Taken with Instagram at Piccadilly Circus)

Awaiting the pride march (Taken with Instagram at Piccadilly Circus)

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