Google Fanboys At G1 Launch

Google Fanboys At G1 LaunchDid you see the Google fanboys at the G1 mobile launch yesterday?

When ‘surprise guests,’ Google head honchoes Larry Page and Sergey Brin came on stage there’s was mass rush for anything that can take a photo, to snap pictures of these strange stars.

Video camera, still camera and mobile phones were grabbed and raised aloft in an effort to capture the moment when the assembled were breathing the same air as these hallowed beings.

As a remote observer, it felt like this was a story that those there would be dinnig out on the story and eventually be telling their grand children about in the future.

We found it pretty bizzare.

“The Truth About Mobile Phones” Revealed

Decide What To Buy have an interesting piece about “The truth about mobile phones.”

They’ve gone out and asked 31,000 people about their mobile phones and collated the info.

It reveals what we all knew really, that people primarily buy phone for what the look like.

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Jason Binks, Now Head Of Digital and New Media, ITV Worldwide

Jason Binks, Now Head Of Digital and New Media, ITV WorldwideITV Worldwide have a new Vice President of Digital and New Media.

Jason Binks joins the company to look after all aspects of digital rights, including DTO (Download-To-Own), DTR (Download-To-Rent), and VOD (Video On Demand).

ITV tell us that he will also support the television and home entertainment sales teams at ITV Worldwide and deal with technology companies in this new environment.

Binks joins from Roo Media, where he was Senior Sales and Distribution Director for Europe for ten months

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Twitter: A Creative Tool?

Twitter: A Creative Tool?As with all new forms of communiation, after a while of them being about, some clever creative types comes up with an idea that uses the technology, allowing them to flex their creative muscles.

One of the oft-cited example is Lonely Girl on YouTube which proported to be a 15 year old girl stuck in difficult times. Within a short period of time LonelyGirl15 was rumbled as being connected to Hollywood powerhouse talent agency, Creative Artists Agency.

Now Twitter
As we all know, Twitter has been around for quite a while now, so it was interesting to hear about a similar creative writing excercise taking place on there.

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