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QR codes finally making it into the shopping basket

August 8, 2009by laurajb Leave a comment

Iain Tait blogged about it here, but Marks and Spencer have started to pop the odd QR code onto products. As wth him, I’m super-impressed that someone has bitten the […]

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advertising, mobile + location aware, tasty treats
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FontShuffle – the new iPhone app from FontShop

December 7, 2008by laurajb Leave a comment

This application is perfect for geeking out to. Not entirely useful yet (the app contains a few hundred fonts, but its a bit fiddly to see the full range, and […]

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general brilliantness, mobile + location aware

Augment your ears with RjDj

October 16, 2008by laurajb Leave a comment

This brilliant new iPhone app takes recordings and sensory data from your live environment, and uses them to create a live soundtrack to your day…

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general brilliantness, mobile + location aware, tunes

Whoops! BMB badness…

October 15, 2008by laurajb Leave a comment

From Creativity Online, BMB are being sued for $12.5m over their release of the ever-referenced-best-branded-iphone-app-in-the-world, iPint. Looks like the *sticky* element was actually a straight rip-off from iBeer, but not […]

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advertising, ideas and inventions, mobile + location aware, thought pieces
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Fab talk today: Matt Jones from Dopplr

August 7, 2008by laurajb Leave a comment

Matt Jones from Dopplr came to speak today at one of our glue lunchtime sessions. It was so great that I ended up with a hand covered in thought-provoking scribble: […]

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general brilliantness, glue, interweb, mobile + location aware, Uncategorized, UX/IA

Pensieve – bad name, but potentially a really cool app

July 29, 2008by laurajb Leave a comment

From their press release: To help people remember key facts, today, IBM (NYSE: IBM) unveiled a software technology created in its Research Labs that uses the images, sounds, and text […]

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mobile + location aware

Big in Japan

July 1, 2008by laurajb Leave a comment

Great report on mobile + social media trends in Japan by Ryan*MacMillan.

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