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What are the best songs to get you going when you need to think/be inspired/knock out a Powerpoint? Here’s a collaborative Spotify playlist to accumulate the favourite tracks of Planners around the world (or at least where there’s Spotify). It’s still in the early stages, so please add a few tracks, but as it’s all [...]

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Things that have inspired me during 2009: Ikea Facebook Take something everyone does (yet hate when others do it to them) and give people free stuff for doing it. This got the Ikea store in Malmo plenty of publicity via peoples Facebook walls. It also allowed them to then make a case study video for [...]

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My posts from a few months ago were pushing for Spotify to get their service mobile. Now with the announcement that Apple have (quite surprisingly) given the thumbs up to the Spotify iPhone app & todays release of the smartphone app, I thought I would also add my thumbs up to what could be the [...]

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Sometimes you just need to know when to cut ties with a message that isn’t right…other times companies absolutely bottle it when they find that their ad brings a little negative attention towards their brand. Recently Microsoft decided to drop their IE8 ad featuring Dean Cain (formerly of TV’s Superman series) due to public pressure, [...]

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A while ago I put together my case for how Spotify could revitalise the music industry. So far the stats supporting that are gradually growing, but it’s yet to prove as spectacular as I anticipated, something that Daniel Ek the co-founder of Spotify has put down to the current economic climate. At the time of [...]

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A nice creative ad for Loewe Sound that is currently being broadcast on German television. Views on this video will certainly increase dramatically in coming weeks as it has great viral potential and I predict we’ll be seeing a few parodies in the near future.

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Turn it Up to 11!

A very clever store front design proving that an innovative approach can allow small businesses to gain exposure without  having to throw cash around. The shop is an independant in Southampton, England that has hit the front page on Digg after being posted on Flickr. Go Web 2.0!

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I’ve recently come across an application called “Spotify”, many of you may well have already stumbled across reference to it on the net or possibly recieved an invite to gain access to the application which is currently in its Beta stage. It’s best described as “iTunes on demand” with no price to pay per track. [...]

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With news today that Absolute radio has lost 461,000 listeners since it was re-branded from Virgin radio, the growing trend of new brands failing even with established infrastructure continues. Absolute follow their fellow Virgin-re-branders Zavvi into a situation where the change in brand has seen problems arise. At least Absolute had a go at establishing [...]

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John Lennon has been used in a US advert for charity One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) 28 years after being shot dead in New York. The initiative aims to give each child in developing countries a solar powered laptop in order to give them access to the wealth of knowledge that the internet has to [...]

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