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Whichever way you cut it, Justin Bieber gets Social Media. Or maybe it gets him?

I’m guessing you’ve seen the movie? Never say Never. Who hasn’t? Especially if you have kids. And even more especially if those kids happen to be of the female variety. I went in kicking and screaming, and came out a raving Justin Bieber fan. Very simply because

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Newly connected younger workforce, is already influencing coworkers

Yesterday I posted some information from the Cisco global research report on today’s younger workers. Here’s an infographic pulled from their report. Makes for some interesting thinking. The highlights of the report are social media and mobility (flexibility in time and space) What’s interesting to add is that it’s

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What the pace of change looks like when you condense the last 3000 years into 60 minutes

As part of my deep dive into creativity this month, one of the books I’m reading is ‘Out of our Minds: Learning to be Creative‘ by Ken Robinson. One of his chapters deals with the pace of change, and therefore the need for imagination and creativity. As

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60 Minutes Interview with Steve Job’s biography author Walter Isaacson is on the Web

The Steve Jobs biography is launched today digitally. You can get a copy on iTunes or Amazon. It’ll cost you $18.09 on Amazon and $20.55 on iTunes (by my calculations – I only have a UK account for iTunes) You may also want to watch the 60

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The launch of the PadFone. This is a beauty. It’ll make your day.

I was grateful to TechCrunch for this one. It made my day and kept a smile on my face all week as I played it over in my mind. It’s a story that actually broke in May 2011 (so it may be old news for some of

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There’s no future for magazines when children don’t know how to use them

I often wonder why we struggle to look backwards and recognise that many of the conversations our ancestors had, as new technology was ushered in, are the same conversations we engage in today? I imagine as the telephone began to gain momentum there were many people who

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RBS drives Video Conferencing – the story of an unintended consequence

I got sent a link last week from a friend (@KatieJay_) about the cost-cutting RBS is currently going through (RBS Cancels Christmas for Investment Bankers). I’m sure different people who read this Bloomberg article will find all sorts of different parts of it interesting, and for different

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Augmented Reality Breasts. For real, in a manner of speaking

I can honestly say I’ve not imagined augmented reality to be used in this way, but having read an article on penn-olson.com recently, I’m surprised it wasn’t invented a long time ago :) Osaka-based Ningen Inc. has developed something big. Its AR Kyonyu uses the Kinect camera to detect people in its field of vision, and

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Tech Innovations that significantly disrupted their industry and the world

For those people who see my tweets from time to time, you might have noticed me saying, “I love clever people”. I do. Whenever I find an article about people who’ve approached the world differently, and then had the courage to go on and execute their idea,

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Retire Successfully

Last Thursday evening I attended the launch of Chartered Wealth’s Retire Successfully digital resource. It consists, at this point in time, of: Web Site FaceBook Page Twitter Feed It’s a great resource they’re offering for people either in, or heading towards retirement (aka refirement or retyrement). There’s

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