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Lego Matrix Trinity

Posted on 01. Dec, 2009 by Rory McCafferty.

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Berlusconi’s women

Posted on 01. Dec, 2009 by Rory McCafferty.

Even in Europe’s normally permissive political landscape Italy’s prime minister Silvio Berlusconi is under pressure for his relationships with many women.
The full slideshow is on Vanity Fair.

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Pepsi & CBS team up to run video ads in a paper magazine

Posted on 20. Aug, 2009 by Rory McCafferty.

I think Harry Potter got there first but Pepsi and CBS are teaming up to run talking ads within old media.
Irish Times writes
Soft drinks company Pepsi, TV network CBS and publishers, Time Warner have partnered to insert a paper thin interactive video screen into the September 18th copy of Entertainment Weekly .
The screen will be powered [...]

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Cloud computing – an idea that’s time has come?

Posted on 20. Jul, 2009 by Rory McCafferty.

For some time now the tech world has been abuzz with cloud computing. The concept provides great promise, companies can operate with less hardware and use on a need to basis, every application can be on the web with users accessing remotely. According to IDC the market for cloud computing will be $42 billion in [...]

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Custom Letters

Posted on 09. Jul, 2009 by Rory McCafferty.

LETTERCult has an interesting piece on the best custom lettering of the first half of 2009, I especially like this one from Esther Aarts
Custom Letters is an evolving category that includes calligraphy, sign painting, graffiti, stone carving, digital lettering, hand lettering, paper sculpture, and type design (we’d prefer to feature new/original type over, say, revivals).
Custom, [...]

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50 Promising Startups

Posted on 21. Jun, 2009 by Rory McCafferty.

BusinessWeek has an interesting piece on the top 50 technology startups that you may not have heard of. I confess that it is my job to keep up on areas like this I was only familiar with around 20 of them or 40%. There are several that I think are particularly interesting.

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MTV fights to retain viewers from Facebook & Twitter

Posted on 21. Jun, 2009 by Rory McCafferty.

It seems to me that MTV abandoned the music video format a long time ago and embraced ‘reality’ TV. Portfolio has an interesting piece about the success of The Hills and how MTV is going to double-down with more meta-reality.
It’s a risky strategy. With these shows, MTV is betting on a particularly elusive sliver of [...]

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2012 Trailer

Posted on 20. Jun, 2009 by Rory McCafferty.

How cool does this movie look?, from the director of Independence Day and the Day After Tomorrow, if you like end of the world movies, this is for you.

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Iran Elections

Posted on 20. Jun, 2009 by Rory McCafferty.

I think it has been pretty well documented how social networking has allowed much more freedom in passing of information out of Iran. When we are let down by the networks such as CNN many of us turned to Twitter/Facebook blogs etc. The format of one pundit on one side and one with the opposing [...]

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