Trends

  • Come On Lil’ Lleyton

    Those of you in Brisbane (or even Australia and the world it seems) will most likely be aware of the battle between Josh Shiels and Australian tennis star Lleyton Hewitt of the trademark dispute of the ‘Come On’ brand that Josh created a number of years ago. As a friend of Josh and his son…

  • Time’s Top 10 Tech Trends for 2010

    I stumbled upon the Time website the other week (which is fantastic by the way) and found their list of Top 10 Tech Trends for 2010. This list gives a very basic snapshot of some of the amazing applications that are changing the way we live. The list highlights FourSquare, Facebook Connect, Social Games like…

  • RSS in Plain English

    This video is great! Saw it at a Digital Marketing Workshop on Monday and explains RSS in ‘human terms’. Check it out! Yours in design, Janet-eratops

  • Microsoft launches social media savvy mobile phone to youth market

    Microsoft have lifted the veil on their latest mobile phones – Kin One and Kin Two – designed purely with Gen Y, and even Gen Z, in mind. Long gone is the main necessity of a phone to actually administer and receive phone calls … no, today we expect our phones to be multi-level digital…

  • Skinput: Save money on computer screens and just use your own skin!

    Can you imagine it? Pressing on parts of our body to activate certain programs or functions. Hmm, if I touch my left ear the garage door will open! The possibilities are endless! I was watching the following YouTube video on a mashable.com post and in one of the comments was mentioned a TED talk about…

  • My Favourite Car Designs

    I have always loved classic cars, and owned a few along with way, some of which have only become classics in the years since I drove them new! The “Goddess” Citroens, so called because of their DS model name (Diesse translates as goddess in French) surprised everyone in 1955 when they hit the road, a design…

  • Jetstar flies the social media flag!

    This morning I read that more than 71% of businesses intend to increase their use of social media – including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and company blogs – in 2010 (according to the 2010 Social Media Marketing Industry Report). So it was timely when I discovered how Jetstar plan to divvy up their marketing budget. It’s…

  • Google’s the Buzz word!

    Surely it’s not just me that has noticed that Google has been in, around, on top of and responsible for everything at the moment. Almost every news story, blog post, email that I read mentions Google. Some of the innovations that Google have bombarded us with recently include the Google phone, Google Wave, the updated…

  • 3 Brands Reaping Success by using Social Media for Businesses

    Social media, we all know it. Most of us probably use it on a personal level – Facebook, Twitter, Bebo… It’s an online, interactive, community-building wonder world that’s not a craze; it’s here to stay. Despite the genius of social media sites dissolving the distance of communicating with friends anywhere in the world, what I…