Mobile Social Networking and Social Periphery/Ambient Intimacy diagram

Even two years ago many people wouldn’t have predicted that the primary selling point of a mobile handset in its own advertising would not be the hardware, the screen size, calltime or even brand message, but the fact that you can get Facebook (and other feeds) on it.
The current rapid growth of mobile social networks is [...]

Digital in the real world or the internet of things, Augmented Reality, RFID and Mobile

I’ve been doing a series of Augmented Reality meets RFID meets mobile workshops and seminars recently and thought I’d share the slides.
The good thing about this type of work and technology is that it slowly gets us away from the idea of “digital” being a distinct or separate medium. I think the problem is that [...]

6. On is off/Off is on (2009 Trends)

Dirt cheap, lightening fast & “always on” internet. An unconnected device is odd, this offers a potential for a social element to be added to objects creating an “Internet of things”.

Flex, AIR and Silverlight, Google Docs & the new MS Office function on your desktop and on the web, this is an extension of the [...]

5. The semantic web & social periphery (2009 Trends)

Of all the potential trends for 2009 I think Social Periphery is the most interesting. It effects everything we do and changes everything we will do. It influences the future form of interactive creative work as well as the way interactive narratives or campaigns should be structured.
It also encompasses another old favourite of mine – [...]

2009 Interactive Creative Trends

Predicting trends can be notorious woolgathering for creative and strategy folk, often coming across as a mix of someone guessing the end of a detective thriller while taking a peak at page 400 in a choose your own adventure novel. But when you’re confronted with the annual “What’s next?” question it is a chance to [...]