http://hugoking.com Sun, 01 Nov 2009 14:19:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en hugokinghttp://feedburner.google.com There's nothing like a warming soup on a wed and windy winters day. The pumpkin has to be the king of winter soup vegetables and this is my favourite recipe for it. The addition of the roasted seeds gives a slight nuttiness to the creamy pumpkin and it's great to ... http://hugoking.com/pumpkin-soup-with-roasted-seeds/ The latest microsite I've been working on is for the new Ford Ka. This is another huge campaign targeting younger (prospective) small car buyers across all the usual channels; TV, print, email, mobile and (most importantly) web and social media. The campaign is all about discovery - it's called Go Find ... http://hugoking.com/go-find-it-with-the-new-ka/ I've had two weeks with the new iPhone now - long time admirer, first time buyer - and I'm pretty impressed. Actually, I'm more than impressed; it is every bit the brilliant nugget of technology it has been promoted as. What stopped me getting one before now wasn't the stills-only camera, ... http://hugoking.com/iphone-invincible/ Paris is absolutely freezing in February so god knows why we chose to go then! But it was fantastic to go back to Paris; to see the Eiffel Tower, to eat great food, to offend French people. And as always we had a mission: to compile Fifty Facts Française and ... http://hugoking.com/paris-je-taime/ UPDATE: The full site has now been decommissioned (the part with the mashup content) but the barebones concept of the site is still there. So here's what I've been working on. This is just part of a huge Europe-wide marketing campaign for the new Ford Fiesta. The campaign is the culmination of ... http://hugoking.com/fiesta-fiesta/ If you haven't heard of Twitter already it's a 'micro-blogging platform' where users post tweets - 140 character messages - in answer to the question "What are you doing?". As a user you can 'follow' others, and others can 'follow' you, with your tweets being broadcasted to your followers. It ... http://hugoking.com/is-twitter-for-tools/ This script idea came to me in a dream, that sounds really cliched but I swear it's true, and I guess it's just my idea of a perfect meeting between boy and girl. It's only a short, 3-5 minute, film idea and is meant to be all cute and feel ... http://hugoking.com/in-the-beginning-script/ So another year, another Macworld, and this year the big news is the MacBook Air. But before I get onto that a little on what else we saw, or in my case read, from San Fran this time round. Movies Apparently people want "movies, movies, movies" or so say Steve-o, personally I've ... http://hugoking.com/macwild/ Video on the internet is a big deal. A fair number of conversations I have contain the words "have you seen ... on YouTube" and regional news even occasionally run a story on the latest "viral video phenomenon". YouTube itself is so popular that it has completely proliferated our day-to-day ... http://hugoking.com/the-vid-e-web/ Well this is my first blog entry, my foray into the blogosphere, the yard stick against which all future posts will be measured. So what better subject to get stuck in with than the concept of the 'blog'. Blogs must be one of the stranger things to come out of the ... http://hugoking.com/blogs-are-a-funny-thing/