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Innovative online video advertising

Following on from Stuart’s excellent post about his experiences of working with and researching new media as a platform, I’d like to draw attention to a couple of recent examples of digital marketing that caught my eye.

(They have all been around the blogosphere a couple of times already, but there is a reason for that. [...]

The Job experiment

This video is a fantastic example of creatively solving a problem. Namely, how to get a job. This will probably be the best $6 he has ever invested.

We’ve been conducting our own job experiment. Through social media, we have been publicising our job vacancies. For a princely sum of zero, we have already been fortunate [...]

Domestic Robocop

Drawing inspiration from Robocop, Minority Report and other future-facing science fiction, this video presents an interesting look at what our daily lives could become once our reality is fully augmented.

Augmented (hyper)Reality: Domestic Robocop from Keiichi Matsuda on Vimeo.

Exciting, or worrying?

Those that know us will have noted that our iPhones are never far from our hands. [...]

Mobile industry count

Fantastic visualisation from Gary Hayes – click through to go to the original page, including sources for the figures.

A similar count for social media can be found here.

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As a quant researcher, I couldn’t possibly comment

From Abstruse Goose

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Prezi and presenting on a single canvas

We’re always keeping a look out for new and innovative ways to convey our ideas and present our work.

Prezi is firmly on our radar. Check out the one minute tutorial at the homepage or have a play about with the below presentation from Wired

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A social media revolution?

The video below is doing the rounds at the moment. It reminds me A LOT of another video that went around a year or so ago (featuring the same music), but alas I can’t find it.

Anyway, there are some interesting points in it even when some of the “facts” are taken with a pinch of [...]