Onur Ibrahim

Ecosystems Outlast Organisms

Onur Ibrahim — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 10:30:24 +0000

Ecosystems outlast organisms I recently read a blog post by Seth Godin entitled “Cities don’t die (but corporations do)” In this post Godin introduced the concept of “control” and the “fringes” where the big difference between corporations and cities is level of control. I read this as Central control and testing failure at the fringes. [...]

Facebook email grouping feature

Onur Ibrahim — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 08:06:51 +0000

Imagine, if you could get Facebook to do your email marketing for you….. The possibility of having one line in a trusted feed and having this sent out to all of your dedicated tribe members, these are people that interact with you and follow your actions like true fans. Well, this new feature might be [...]

London street art – Excerpt 1

Onur Ibrahim — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 10:23:46 +0000

This might be a bit graphic, but I think this helps show the creativity of young London artists off Leather Lane, EC1. Today’s art acquires its inspiration from a multitude of sources and locations. This living (or dead) piece was created comically by taking advantage of a usually disturbing sight on the pavement and turning it into something [...]

If music be the food of love, play on!

Onur Ibrahim — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 10:31:54 +0000

Social Networks have traditionally been built around content types. 1. Facebook was built on a better way of Photo Sharing, 2. YouTube was all about Video, 3. Twitter is the information Centre, 4. MySpace used to be the Music Centre, “If music be the food of love, play on,Give me excess of it; that surfeiting,The [...]

Monday morning art

Onur Ibrahim — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 08:29:05 +0000

p43.mov Watch on Posterous It’s amazing how captivating the simplest coincidences can be. I arrived in the office this morning to a floating balloon bouncing on an air stream. Bit silly maybe but, it was enough to capture my attention for a while. Why can’t more advertising follow these simple ideas and be more captivating? [...]