In No Particular Order

Editing recurring events in iCal that you’ve accepted from MS Exchange/other…

Ian Jindal — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:08:01 +0000

Thought I’d share a mini-triumph to a niggling problem with iCal and recurring events I’d accepted into my calendar.

I work with a number of clients, most of whom are on MS Exchange of one flavour or another. I get meeting invites from them and accept them joyously into iCal on my Mac. For the most part this works fine, except when it comes to recurring events. My diary was littered with recurring events stretching into the future without end and I was unable to delete these since – as iCal kindly reminded me – I was not the meeting organiser.

I asked clients to send a cancellation, but this didn’t remove the event, and in some cases they’d already removed or finished the recurrence, just leaving me with an infinite stub.

I could delete the individual instances, but had to remember not to delete the whole series (or I’d lose the events that had really happened and that I’d attended) and I also had to take care not to ‘inform the organiser’ of the deletion – it’s never fun getting spammed about someone cancelling an event that doesn’t exist in your world!

In a moment of googling joy today I came across this ancient tip:

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2006012408314747

where it mentioned that the ‘organiser’ was identified by their email address. The tip suggested grepping and editing the underlying calendar with a text editor (wah – destruction of data alert!) but it sparked an idea that worked… Here’s how to be able to edit these otherwise untouchable appointments…

Open the event and look under attendees for the organiser (it says after their name, eg “Ian Jindal (organiser)”)
Click on the organiser’s name to see their email address and copy this (an option if you ctrl-click on the name)
Close the appointment and go to Address Book app
Go to your own address card (Card >> My Card)
Enter edit mode (apple-L) and add a new email address for yourself – paste in the copied email address for the event organiser, then exit Edit mode (apple-L again)
Go back to your calendar and open the event
Bingo! iCal thinks that “you” are the event organiser (since they Organiser’s email address is in your address card) and therefore lets you edit the event. Change the recurrence ‘end date’ to a date of your choice.
Save.

I now have a clean calendar and a light heart

Just remember to remove the temporary extra email(s) from your address card.

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The Guide: Artwork by Clement Price-Thomas

Ian Jindal — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:58:59 +0000

Wow – I love this!

A friend’s brother’s just won an art prize and when I initially looked at the video (distracted, sorry), I didn’t really “get” it. Half way through it hit me – great idea, beautifully executed and recorded with restraint. Tip: look at the leaves…

Anyway, Clem won the Celeste Prize in the Video, Installation, Sculpture category. Nice one. Here’s the video…

The Guide from Clement Price – Thomas on Vimeo.

Inside the bubble – video The good folk at Banner have put up the video from the panel discussion they ran: "Inside the Bubble". I...
Building Stonehenge? On man moves 22,000lb stones YouTube - Building Stonehenge - This Man can Move Anything Thanks to Mr Worley for this. ...
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Microposting(s) for September 17th through September 29th

Ian Jindal — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:00:17 +0000

These my micropostings and bookmarks – September 17th through September 29th:

Xtranormal | Text-to-Movie – Nice online tool to script and create '3d movies'. A way to have gags, stories etc voiced by 3d avatars and put straight onto YouTube etc.
Guardian.co.uk Has Lost £20 Million Since 2002/03 | paidContent –
The Dirty Little Secret About the "Wisdom of the Crowds" – There is No Crowd – "there is no crowd"
The Writing Desk: Pilot Pluminix. – cute fountain pens. Like their wonderful disposable ones… just not disposable
www.leicagoodies.com –

MacRumors.com : MacWorld San Francisco 2007 Keynote Live Coverage Not quite "being there", and not as fast as IRC, but props to the folk at MacRumours for their...
PocketMod – paper, pocket, disposable organiser PocketMod: The Free Disposable Personal Organizer Wonderful. Having recently dumped the Treo650 (or "threo", I should say, since it was...
Lost in translation… Lost in Translation What happens when an English phrase is translated (by computer) back and forth between 5 different languages?...

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Speaking at a BIMA/Netimperative dinner

Ian Jindal — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:22:01 +0000

Last night I spoke at a BIMA dinner, since I’d been asked by Justin Cooke, the new Chair of BIMA and CEO of Fortune Cookie.

The format was a nice, intimate one: a couple of dozen digital and ecommerce folk, cosy restaurant on Piccadily and, er, me.

It was only after I’d accepted (and the first Netimperative email landed) that it dawned on me that I’d never done a ’speech’ before. Much as I hate powerpoint, all of my public speaking to date had involved a projector, a script and some pictures. I suddenly felt very nervous indeed!

Turned out OK though – the time passed very quickly and the questions were lively. I spoke on some themes I’m keen on:

the role of ecommerce – taking some of the points from my musings on the Chief Electricity Officer (blog post)
data (trying to cover the notions of epiphenomenology without pictures…) (see my presentation at the Future of Digital Marketing conference)
the Obama-Preedy Pricing Principle – yes, there’s a well-overdue editorial on this that’s notable by its absence…

Thanks to Justin, Davina, Danny and all of the guests for breaking me in gently!

Danny took notes, but I’m not sure what’ll be left after he’s edited for language, career-limiting comments, confidential asides etc. Maybe a photo?

Adobe, Agency.com: some recent speaking I was invited by Agency.com to speak at one of their 'brownbag lunches' and managed to do so on 29...
Speaking at Manchester Digital I spoke in Manchester last night at the Digital Shorts event, organised by Manchester Digital and e-consultancy. I spoke at...
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Microposting(s) for September 8th through September 15th

Ian Jindal — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 23:07:19 +0000

These my micropostings and bookmarks – September 8th through September 15th:

ToyCamera – Art&Mobile – Wonderful add-in app that turns the crap camera of iPhones up to the 3g into a fun, creative thing – with lo-fi simulations of various cameras and styles. Instant Lomo? Lolo? 1974 colour? All here I love it.
Lomography Store… – Woo. Lomo store. Not _that_ far from the new Leica Store ("experience") off Bond Street. Film photography seems renascent – provided your name begins with "L". Lodak? Lolaroid? anyone?
Garden Offices, Garden studios, Therapy, Sound-proofed music rooms – Woo – shed envy. I'd love a shed. Mind you, first of all I'd love a garden that's sufficiently large to have a shed. A large shed. A shed with room to dream. Ah, a shed.
Google – Internet Stats – Cool – and really pleased to see that InternetRetailing is one of the sources
Merlin Mann –

Google’s Retail Summit I was really pleased to be invited to moderate a discussion at the Google Retail Summit - on "eCommerce Excellent...
“Swim across the Atlantic Ocean – 3,462mi”: Google from: New York, NY, United States of America to: London - Google Maps Oh, I know it's doing the rounds...
Google Analytics: impressive I'd had a fiddle with Google Analytics when I managed to get on the early trial, but I'd never...

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Google’s Retail Summit

Ian Jindal — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:31:16 +0000

I was really pleased to be invited to moderate a discussion at the Google Retail Summit – on “eCommerce Excellent – winning this Christmas”.

The event brought the great and good together to hear from Google and each other and followed the successful and enjoyable inaugural event last year (Google’s site, my blog post).

On my panel I was joined – with great humour and good will – by Steve Robinson, CEO, M&M Direct, Nick Lansley, Head of Innovation and R&D, Tesco and John Hinchcliffe, CMO, N Brown Group. We’d decided beforehand that we’d avoid the blander approaches one sometimes gets at industry events and try to deal head on with some of the hard choices and real differences this Christmas. I was really pleased that they entered into this and can’t remember chuckling so much during a panel before Hats off to Steve, Nick and John.

Here’s the eminent Peter Fitzgerald of Google opening proceedings: note the Lolo colours, courtesy of ToyCamera iPhone app…

The next panel was on KPIs and featured Michael Ross of eCommera (@manross) in fine form on his pet topic – KPIs. I won’t quote some of his excellent one-liners since not only would that be ‘goal-poaching’, but because Michael’s doing an article for November’s Internet Retailing magazine and I don’t want to scoop ourselves. Watch this space.

Finally on the photo front, here’s the lab squad (or some other name) of Google engineers around to answer questions. All good fun.

I understand that the event was filmed and so – if our panel session makes it past the censor’s cuts for language, sarcasm and career-limited comments – I’ll post the link.

Google Retail Summit – moderating “Scaling and Managing the $1bn Online Business” Retail Summit Google UK have convenened an interesting and senior morning on etail and ecommerce. You can see the list...
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Inverin marketing conference: bit of a joke. Now I'm not particularly shy when it comes to speaking on matters many and divers (well, digital marketing, eCommerce etc)...

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Microposting(s) for August 30th through September 5th

Ian Jindal — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 21:00:37 +0000

These my micropostings and bookmarks – August 30th through September 5th:

Flexibits | Cameras – Found this neat little plugin:
"With familiar System Preference functionality, Cameras allows you to manage what happens when you connect your:

* Digital camera
* iPhone
* Digital media reader
* Any photo device

In addition to launching a specific application when you connect a camera, you can also have your images download automatically. Never again spend time launching the right app or quitting apps that you didn't want to launch."
Perian – The swiss-army knife of QuickTime® components – Perian is a free, open source QuickTime component that adds native support for many popular video formats.
Review of Maturity Models::immeria::web analytics blog::Stephane Hamel – Six approaches to maturity models compared, with the aim of finding an ideal one for the Web Analytics Association. The review is a useful round-up though for anyone interested in maturity models and their applicability.
Starting a new business – free advice, tools and resources | Start Up Donut – The Startup Donut – from Business Hotline Publications
iO | Innovation Onboard, integrating portable devices into your car – Bluetooth Music Streaming & Hands Free kits. iPhone hands free car kit & iPhone music integration into your vehicle – Neat way to get iPod/phone music into an old car
Blogging is back, thanks to Posterous | Blog | Econsultancy – Nice, enthusiastic review of Posterous, with mullings on microblogging. Chris didn't mention that 'annotated delicious tags' are also microblogging too…
Retail Retweets (retailretweets) on Twitter – Retail retweets? Great idea

“Cult of the Amateur” – Andrew Keen. Innovation Reading Circle: 05: Amateurism, culture and excellence Congratulations to Nico Macdonald for another interesting Innovation Reading Circle, attended by Andrew Keen, the author of "Cult of...
Most useful digital marketers to follow on Twitter : Dave Chaffey’s Right Touching Blog Most useful digital marketers to follow on Twitter : Dave Chaffey's Right Touching Blog Dave "Dr Dave" Chaffey, esteemed author...
“Just the one”: August. New venue! Venue details. Well, it's 'that time of year again' (ie a few months after our last drink ;) )....

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Microposting(s) for August 4th through August 25th

Ian Jindal — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:00:13 +0000

These my micropostings and bookmarks – August 4th through August 25th:

Data Based : The Relational Model turns 40 –
Walmart.com – see it in 3-D –
Barclays, Orange Partner on Mobile Payment | AFSCM – Contactless payments using Mobile. Hmm – Octopus.com.hk anyone?
Ronan Le Goff – Impressive sailor and nice guy who owned the house we stayed in while in Brittany.
Teens Don’t Tweet; Twitter’s Growth Not Fueled By Youth | Nielsen Wire – Interesting factoids from Nielsen on how twitter under-indexes the overall web use for the under 25 segment.
Apple Wants To Build A PayPal Killer, Say Wall Street Gossips (AAPL, EBAY) – This makes immense sense to me. iPhone users are used to their iTunes app and make micropayments ($0.79, say, for a tune up to £20 for an app and £100 for their .mac account…). In the absence of a PayPal app on the iPhone (invoked how? with no multitasking and clunky hand-shaking between apps…?) this would make sense.
Certainly it's no more onerous than Google Checkout and would be better integrated.

Cat, pigeons, amongst.

“Just the one”: August. New venue! Venue details. Well, it's 'that time of year again' (ie a few months after our last drink ;) )....
It’s August: a survey on Londoners’ swearing emails… Cockney suits abuse f**king email | The Register Brilliant. While anecdotal and personal experience would of course confirm the...
K800i synchronising with Mac OSX I've finally managed to dump the abominable Treo650. After years of Palm use I've called it a day: crap...

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Future of Digital Marketing: Keynote

Ian Jindal — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 12:07:38 +0000

I was really honoured to be asked to keynote at Econsultancy’s 2009 FODM in June 2009. I’d spoken before and found the audience to be tough but receptive. It’s one of the more difficult speaking gigs of the year, I find, and there’s always a pressure to perform well (and Ashley commenting that there’s “no pressure” of course just makes it worse… ). At least this year he didn’t promise I’d be “funny” (a throwaway remark that gave me my first night of lost sleep in 10 years as I imagined that I’d been forced to perform a standup routine at the Comedy Club without a script! Wah).

Anyway, the event was held at the rather spectacular Congress Hall and upon entering I realised both that is was a great presentation venue, and that 350 marketers is quite some audience

There were some spectacular and energetic speakers (Jonathan MacDonald in particular), and two sessions that interested me in particular on digital publishing and ecommerce in retail.

The presentation went well and I used the time to reprise themes from previous FODM presentations, wander into the realms of Augmented Reality, build on some KPI discussions I’d been having with Michael “KPI” Ross and finally introduce the “Obama-Preedy Pricing Principle” (the result of a beer-supported discussion with Tony Preedy on how discounts and promotions should be related to a specific place, time and – increasingly – appropriate behaviours). Maybe it should have been the Pavlov-Preedy Principle??

You can see all of the presentations on the Econsultancy page (you need to be a subscriber), or you can see my presentation via the Slideshare link:

PS084 Future of Digital Marketing – “Making and Measuring Marketing Magic”

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Microposting(s) for July 12th through August 1st

Ian Jindal — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 13:01:22 +0000

These my micropostings and bookmarks – July 12th through August 1st:

House of Fraser directors to join Crombie | News | Retail Week – House of Fraser directors June Lawlor and Colin Porter are to leave the department store to join menswear brand Crombie in September.
June Lawlor, who was director of womenswear, accessories and beauty at House of Fraser, and Colin Porter, who was commercial director at the department store, will join Crombie as joint managing directors.
The duo plan to revamp the brand, focusing on its heritage and on producing classics with a twist. They also plan to expand Crombie’s network of standalone stores, concessions and its website.
Songbird – Open Source Music Player – iTunes alternative that – w00t – plays FLAC (lossless audio format) files. Will play at high definition (24bit/96Mhz) and so with an external DAC makes your mac the storage and source "heart" of a digital uber-hifi system.
Blue Circle Audio, Inc. – The USB Thingee HO – DAC and pre-amp. Rave reviews, characterful (unique) construction and a fifth of the price of the Benchmark DAC 1 PRE…
Now, where do I get one of these in the UK?
GoodSound! Equipment Review – Benchmark DAC1 Pre Digital-to-Analog Converter and Preamplifier (2/2009) – Wishlist… wish wish wish
X Lossless Decoder (XLD): How to create flawless CD rips on Mac OS X :: What.CD – Setting/tutorial for the XLD ripper for OSX that creates FLAC files.

Acquisition Manager, E-commerce, House of Fraser, House of Fraser | Econsultancy Acquisition Manager, E-commerce, House of Fraser, House of Fraser | Econsultancy A quick heads up for a new role...
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House of Fraser – Head of eCommerce | Job Listings | E-consultancy.com House of Fraser, one of my clients, is looking to recruit its senior e-marketing team: House of Fraser, the...

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Great image from “What makes a good logo?”

Ian Jindal — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 12:23:00 +0000

What makes a good logo?

Leaving aside my antipathy to tooth-rotting schmaltzwasser, this is a great timeline of competitive head-to-head logo change.

From http://justcreativedesign.com and via @peterabraham

Olympics 2012 | London unveils logo of 2012 Games So let me get this right: an out of touch Tory Lord and a septuagenarian once-trendy designer have come...
My ‘Web2.0 logo’ from the ‘Web2.0 logo generator’ Excellent! Via Azeem's revitalised blog and the generator site. I'm rather tempted to use this ;) ...
Like.com: First True Visual Image Search? Herewith a further step in visual merchandising. The Like.com engine takes both text and images as queries, something no...

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Microposting(s) for July 11th from 15:42 to 16:52

Ian Jindal — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 17:00:23 +0000

These my micropostings and bookmarks – July 11th from 15:42 to 16:52:

Linn Records – specialists in Classical, Jazz and Celtic music – … and now with Studio Masters available for download
AIX Records – Audio Fidelity Beyond Reality – High definition audiophile downloads…
HDtracks high resolution audiophile music downloads – High Definition downloads. 24bit/96Khz. Limited selection for now – just like CDs in the old days
Ripping it Right! – High Quality CD Ripping | Home Entertainment – Quality ripping tips – squeezing all of the quality out of a CD. Doesn't include upsampling tips.
Computer Audio for the Audiophile | Home Entertainment – Outboard DAC review and roundup of audiophile-grade audio playback from a Mac. Now the question is how to get 96Khz audio into iTunes in the first place. Oh, and getting a cheaper DAC – $4k isn't really 'audiophile' – it's "divorce"

US Eurovision: Fine – but who’s their “Wogan”?? BBC NEWS | Entertainment | US to emulate Eurovision contest "Eurovision is the granddaddy of all talent shows and the...
Sun editor held in Kemp assault BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Sun editor held in Kemp 'assault' Well well. No facts. A possible family upset, and...
At least we know where Galloway is for the next month… BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Galloway joins Big Brother house Ah - showing either his ironic sense of humour and...

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Microposting(s) for July 1st through July 8th

Ian Jindal — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:03:36 +0000

These my micropostings and bookmarks – July 1st through July 8th:

MAMP: Mac, Apache, MySQL, PHP – Quoth ye site:
"The abbreviation "MAMP" stands for: Macintosh, Apache, Mysql and PHP. With just a few mouse-clicks, you can install Apache, PHP and MySQL for Mac OS X!
MAMP installs a local server environment in a matter of seconds on your Mac OS X computer, be it PowerBook or iMac. Like similar packages from the Windows- and Linux-world, MAMP comes free of charge.
MAMP is installed in the typical Mac fashion: very easily. MAMP will not compromise any existing Apache installation already running with your OS X. You can install Apache, PHP and MySQL without starting a script or having to change any configuration files!"

Sounds interesting and a nice way to play server without messing up one's MBP…

Furthermore, if MAMP is no longer needed, it is sufficient to delete the MAMP folder and everything returns to its original status (i.e. MAMP does not modify any of the "normal" OS X).
About & Tour | Sifter – BaseCamp lookie-likie bug and issue tracking software. Hosted, not cheap, but certainly cheerful looking.
KartOO : The First Interface Mapping Metasearch Engine – Looks pretty. Some interesting links. Not the hyperbolic tree viewer I'd expected, so that's good. Via Mark Russell
Maturity Model approach to web analytics – from http://blog.immeria.net/2009/06/tale-of-web-analytics-near-miss.html
Interesting to see the CMM approach now applied to as assessment of an organisation's approach to web analytics.
A tale of two retailers – Very interesting article comparing the IT approaches of two retailers – House of Fraser (disclosure: a client of mine) and ASOS. The two IT directors comment on the approach to IT. At HOF it's the ecommerce team are the digital 'haves', while at ASOS it's more pervasive (as befits an ecommerce pureplay). The challenge is the extent to which legacy systems and business approaches are a 'defensible investment' or a drag on progress.

Google Analytics: impressive I'd had a fiddle with Google Analytics when I managed to get on the early trial, but I'd never...
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6 minutes 40 seconds: Pecha Kucha cubicgarden.com... Ian Forrester's ever-interesting blog has taught me something new yet again: "Pecha Kucha" . Not only is this a...

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Microposting(s) for June 24th through June 30th

Ian Jindal — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:00:18 +0000

These my micropostings and bookmarks – June 24th through June 30th:

Ruder Finn Intent Index – Interesting index on consumers' intentions for their use online, and some lovely graphics too.
Alice.com – Managing home essentials online – brands, direct to customer rather than via a supermarket… Interesting to know the ownership of Alice… P&G? Big Brands? Challenging the supermarkets…? Or another WebVan?
Quicklist: Diptyque luxury body and beauty products from Liberty – Nice quicklist feature (right hand side – purple button).
Gift-Library.com : About Gift Library Luxury Shopping – Personally 'curated' gifts. Nice tone of voice and clear idea of the persona
Direct2Dell – Direct2Dell – DELL COMMUNITY – Horse's mouth story of the success of Dell's twittering – $2m in revenues

Christmas Snow – Shoots @ Lupe Gallery Well, another fun session at Seamus Ryan's Lupe Gallery just off Columbia Road. Many moons ago I posted about...
Magnum Festival: Celebrating the Art of Documentary / June 2, 2007 What a line-up of interesting, small exhibitions and shows, all taking place in NYC for the 60th anniversary of...
Alice in hospital Poor Alice, here in the isolation room at the Royal London Hospital. She'd had chicken pox, then impetigo and...

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Microposting(s) for June 21st through June 23rd

Ian Jindal — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:02:12 +0000

These my micropostings and bookmarks – June 21st through June 23rd:

Customers given too many choices are 10x less likely to buy | Derek Sivers – Useful summary and factoids:
"For 10 years, Columbia professor Sheena Iyengar has been studying choice. For her research paper, “When Choice is Demotivating”, they ran a great test:

They set up a free tasting booth in a grocery store, with six different jams. 40% of the customers stopped to taste. 30% of those bought some.

A week later, they set up the same booth in the same store, but this time with twenty-four different jams. 60% of the customers stopped to taste. But only 3% bought some!"
Sheena S. Iyengar – Research – When Choice is Demotivating:
Can One Desire Too Much of a Good Thing?
Vans Custom Shoes – Like Nike ID, but you can 'invite your friends to design with you'.
Produced by fluid.com
Lucky Brand Jeans – The use of video is well-integrated and restrained, while the 'chat to a friend' feature on every product page is straightforward and actually works.
Almond Cookies I – All Recipes – These worked – most tasty. I made with an extra 30g of ground almonds instead of the flour.

Christmas Snow – Shoots @ Lupe Gallery Well, another fun session at Seamus Ryan's Lupe Gallery just off Columbia Road. Many moons ago I posted about...
“Electronic channels hitting store sales”. Surely not! Electronic channels hitting store sales. Apparently... Some 50% of retailers at the Retail Business Show believe their e-commerce channels are...
Magnum Festival: Celebrating the Art of Documentary / June 2, 2007 What a line-up of interesting, small exhibitions and shows, all taking place in NYC for the 60th anniversary of...

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Microposting(s) for June 9th through June 17th

Ian Jindal — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:02:45 +0000

These my micropostings and bookmarks – June 9th through June 17th:

activeCollab 2.1.2 is Available for Download | activeCollab – Project Management and Collaboration Tool –
Microsyntax.org –
GE | Plug Into the Smart Grid | Augmented Reality –
SOFA – Design, Interfaces & Software – How beautiful is this design? really? 'Tis luscious.
50 Alluring Typography and Grid Focused Websites | The Design Cubicle – Nice list of very attractive sites.

The Logos of Web2.0 The Logos of Web 2.0 | The FontShop FontFeed | Font blog, typography tips, and design news. This is a...
Magnum Festival: Celebrating the Art of Documentary / June 2, 2007 What a line-up of interesting, small exhibitions and shows, all taking place in NYC for the 60th anniversary of...
Helvetica: A documentary film by Gary Hustwit Came across this interesting film: Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture....

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Microposting(s) for May 25th through June 2nd

Ian Jindal — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:01:35 +0000

These my micropostings and bookmarks – May 25th through June 2nd:

House of Fraser boss urges retailers to support retail diploma | News | Drapers –
YouTube – What's Your Moleskine In? – ay yi ay. What craftsmanship! Handmade leather covers for Moleskines. What a pity that the paper's not worthy of this, but wonderful nonetheless. I want one.
Royal Mail Environmental Policy – Sustainable Mail –
Can you believe it? New Yorker cover done on iPhone app. – Interesting, but there are times when surely a piece of paper and pencil have more to offer
Tonchidot’s Sekai Camera iPhone application – Augmented reality coming to iPhone – Augmented reality – tantalising demo. Sadly not yet real. Very very interesting though… Imagine this + merchandising engine… Add a head-up display and we're much closer to Star Trek…

Paper Airplane Designs This is a great resource! The "Floating paper aeroplane" is my current fave since the folded-back nose adds some...
Mark Pigou of Internet Retailing captured in mobile phone interview Just seen this on YouTube, uploaded by Hermione of NewsPepper.com This is a quick, 3-question, interview with Mark, recorded on...
Galloway defends his BB appearance BBC NEWS | Politics | Galloway reality TV move defended Oh well that's OK then. t is his hope that...

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Inspiration Index – MyDeco takes the top spot in the “Customer Experience” dimension of IRII

Ian Jindal — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:10:11 +0000

Inspiration Index – MyDeco takes the top spot in the “Customer Engagement” dimension – Internet Retailing

So – it’s not official: MyDeco.com has grabbed the top spot.

You can read the full results and analysis of the second ‘dimension’ of the Internet Retailing Inspiration Index (IRII) at the post above.

The next dimension is open for voting NOW and for a week, just a week, until 8 June…

Vote here:

https://ecustomeropinions.com/survey/survey.php?sid=349531418

Vote now. Tell your friends.

This time, it’s “Operations and IT”: who do you envy? admire? copy? Tell all – the gloves are off!

Internet Retailing – first results from the Inspiration Index The March issue of InternetRetailing's hitting desks around Europe and we're able to release the standings after the first 'dimension'...
InternetRetailing launches its “Inspiration Index” I posted this on Internet Retailing - please do vote if you're in retail or ecommerce Vote now! Internet Retailing's...
e-Consultancy and cScape’s 2009 Customer Engagement Survey The third annual cScape/e-consultancy survey on Customer Engagement has been published, and it's one of the biggest samples to date....

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Microposting(s) for May 20th through May 25th

Ian Jindal — Mon, 25 May 2009 22:00:10 +0000

These my micropostings and bookmarks – May 20th through May 25th:

Mobilizy – Wikitude AR Travel Guide – Augmented Reality travel guide. Looks like a product. Only on Android atm
Impressive Augmented Reality Game Possibilities on the iPhone – Augmented reality. The demos and mockups are getting better…
Plugging In $40 Computers – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com – $40 -aka "soon to be nothing"; self-configuring IP… "every lightswitch can be a server"… etc.
Leaving the hype aside, the combination of small, cheap, robust and lightly-programmed simple(r) chipsets in pluggable and robust armatures is a further step towards sensors, feedback and 'extensions' everywhere.

Interoperating node + sensing + extension + data portability = interesting.
Polaroid Two – Digital Instant Camera – buy at Firebox.com – I want!
Google Announces Support for Microformats and RDFa – O'Reilly Radar –

Commercial coffin nail for film? Nikon to focus on digital: Digital Photography Review So Nikon has announced formerly that it's to focus on digital, dropping...
Carling’s digital “iPint” – sensible, inventive mobile advertising. Thanks to an article in Indy (Clare Beale's "On Advertising") I've seen and now downloaded the most excellent iPhone guerilla/game/viral...
No Samples Through Letterbox. Thank you. We'd been at the Royal London today for an ante-natal class and while walking back to the car we...

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Microposting(s) for May 18th through May 19th

Ian Jindal — Tue, 19 May 2009 13:01:09 +0000

These my micropostings and bookmarks – May 18th through May 19th:

A Collection of Social Network Stats for 2009 « Web Strategy by Jeremiah Owyang | Social Media, Web Marketing – Social network stats and where/how to access them. Useful.
Staction – Simple communication based project management and time tracking – Hm – two passions in one: project/management software AND command-line interface and rich fingertip control. Worth watching. Can't help that this is all thanks to UNIX geeks meeting Twitter interface and making beautiful sweet love.
Thanks to @offmessage for this. You know me too well
Bazaarvoice Releases Traffic Stats – "Austin-based Bazaarvoice, which provides online applications to online retailers for ratings and reviews, said Friday that the firm now has served what it says are over 50 billion user-generated ratings, reviews, and other information through its platform. The company said it now serves up 4 billion pieces of user-generated content each month. The firm did not say what that translates to as pageviews or unique users. Bazaarvoice provides tools that allows ecommerce providers to display and collect ratings on products they carry, which it offers as a software-as-a-service offering. The firm said it now has 525 brands using its products. "
True Knowledge – Blog: How to build a Universal Answer Engine: ten vital principles – Interesting post on their principles of knowledge, the corpus of data, inference, contribution – and OS software and speed. Good insight.
How Our Primary Source of News & Information Changed in the last 200+ Years – Moving from Traditional Media to the Internet – Nice graphic in the changing mix/source of news over 200 years. Via @azeem

Delicious gets flickr’d: enters the Yahoo! fold Macworld: News: Yahoo buys social bookmarking firm Del.icio.us Just as I was wondering how delicious, one of my favourite web...
e-Consultancy post: ” Web 2.0 needs to lose the social software thing, please “ Web 2.0 needs to lose the social software thing, please | Internet Marketing News and Blog | E-consultancy.com Interesting post...
The Walpole Yearbook – my article on Social Media in Luxury I've just posted my article on Social Media in the Luxury sector on my blog: http://www.ianjindal.com/the-walpole-yearbook-article-on-social-media/ The article was a...

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