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My experience of working with global corporations, including at times BP, is that no one below board level has time for greed - they are just trying to hang on to their jobs and keep swimming in a torrent of bureaucratic sewage. It never fails to amaze me that the multinationals ever get anything done at all. I wouldn't mind betting that the guy in charge of Deepwater Horizon spent ...

Despite it sounding like an amazing business venture, I have not, in fact, started a business called ben-dover-adventure-tours-books. Nor am I'm using sophomore stock-photography to ...

Deceptively known as “social plug-ins,” Facebook’s new system for giving commercial websites access to your personal information is to scatter “I like” buttons around the web. These buttons are ostensibly to allow users to identify what they like on the Internet. But the real benefit for the fat-cats at Facebook is the lucrative deals with corporate websites they stand to make because these buttons will give Facebook the ability ...

If you could go back and show my 10-year-old self an iPad — millions of colors, video, photographs, gorgeous typography, a touchscreen interface, networking (wirelessly!) — and ...

via e-consultancy:

Alerts (register and response rates / by channel / CTR / post click activity)
Bookmarks (onsite, offsite)
Comments
Downloads
Email subscriptions
Fans (become a fan of something / someone)
Favourites (add an item to favourites)
Feedback (via the site)
Followers (follow something / someone)
Forward to a friend
Groups (create / join / total number of groups / group activity)
Install widget (on a blog page, Facebook, etc)
Invite / Refer (a friend)
Key page activity (post-activity)
...

Read write web on Myspace's decision to focus on Music:The question that remains, of course, is whether or not MySpace's re-branding efforts will be enough to keep the site from going under. Although MySpace still had a healthy 64 million users in August of this year, that number is 12 million fewer than it did at the same time last year. Meanwhile, Facebook climbed to 300 million worldwide that same month. Can ...

Latest web copy for the new Freitag computer bags:
Leaving the office with a laptop case demonstrates:
«I’ve got work to do.» Stowing your notebook in an
new F76 LEO or F77 BEN says: «I’ve got things to do.»
It’s not the same.

The first is predictable: You finish that Excel-budget
at home. After brushing your teeth, you write a couple
of mails to subordinates (10.34pm looks ...

The latest version of bumptop includes a 3D Multi-Touch Desktop environment. Rather impressive. Watch the video, and you can read about each of the gestures here. How far away is it until everything is touch screened and gesture based? Not too far, I'm guessing

I've recently moved into a new role at Next Digital, working as a Product Manager on our email marketing web app. I've been working on a UI redesign, so have been thinking a lot about User interfaces lately. I thought I'd throw a few of them together on a SlideShare presentation. Enjoy! User Interface Inspiration

The Streisand Effect is what happens when you try and shut something down online and as a result everyone finds out about it and loads more people see it than would have if you’d kept your mouth shut. It’s origins come from Babs’ suing of a photographer over an aerial photo of her house.Via Crackunit