by Minter Dial | Sep 10, 2010 | New Tech
The launch of Google Instant Search on Wednesday (Sept 8), which is guestimated to bring about 350 million hours in annual time savings worldwide, is also going to bring about a mini revolution in SEO (search engine optimisation) techniques. I loved this quote from...
by Minter Dial | Aug 26, 2010 | New Tech
Words are in… Wordsmithing remains a critical talent. Whether it is crafting the right slogan, snaring a killer title for your email campaign or cutting down to 140 characters the sweetest tweet, the word is [still] in. If images and videos...
by Minter Dial | Jul 29, 2010 | New Tech
Volvo Logo Sex Symbol In a bold marketing coup, related to an effort to remove itself from a “too safe” and “family car” image, Volvo launched its S60 in five cities across Europe and conducted, secretly, an experiment designed to measure the...
by Minter Dial | Jun 17, 2010 | New Tech
As the Augmented Reality technology/concept passes through more and more research centres, there are bound to be loads of exciting new applications popping up. Here is one that caught my fancy from Natan Linder at MIT Media Lab whereby they are enabling a...
by Minter Dial | May 6, 2010 | New Tech
Over the last few days, I have read a number of reports of the horrors of PowerPoint. It seemed to start with the New York Times article about the illusionary trap of Powerpoint presentations used by US Army ‘intelligence’ which stimulated a post by...
by Minter Dial | Apr 21, 2010 | New Tech
Just over a week ago, Google Docs released a new version, or should I say they added some necessary improvements? Some of the highlight new features (taken in part from Google’s only laundry list here): The ability to upload, store, and share any file in Google...