https://www.campaignlive.com/article/lush-declares-war-google-big-tech/1816116 We all know why we’re here. The West Coast chapter, the East Coast boys, our friends from China… We’ve had our differences over the years. Sometimes things have got ugly, out of hand. I hold my hand up here. But we have always come through. We have common aims and if we all work … [Read more…]
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/mar/05/idle-no-more-how-automatic-mouse-jigglers-are-taking-on-nosy-bosses He felt a little guilty. But then again… He’d make it up. He probably already had. what about that evening he finished the report? After all now they were all WfGH (Working from Global Homes), work hours, time itself was a weird thing. And it wasn’t his fault that the evening match was on … [Read more…]
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/25/technology/office-furniture-tech-companies.html You have to have an eye for it. There’s so much. Is it quality or some old tat that no-one’s going to pay for. Some of it’s generic: see it anywhere. That’s OK, you can get it in bulk and sell it on as a job lot to a start-up looking to get their … [Read more…]
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/02/230222141144.htm I’ve spent a long time working my way up this company. I served my time in the pool, the open plan fields of hot desks with their formula formica and generic plush chairs. How many times did I brush past those vertical carpet dividers, feeling the static? In many ways the meta-office was even … [Read more…]
https://www.ft.com/content/bddec314-3f4c-4296-ae6f-eb2a5328c109 We don’t care. They can say what they like. Laugh if they want. “Sad,” they say. Whatever. We enjoy it. We get together. Play. Chat. There are quite a few of us actually. Call it “retro’ if you like. It’s just our thing. Go on, try the headset. I don’t care. They can say … [Read more…]
https://www.theverge.com/23541557/sony-manchester-city-metaverse-playstation Desolate. That’s the best word for it. It reminds me of the first lockdown, eerily quiet, post apocalyptic meets zombie. Anyone you saw seemed dazed, semi-detached. It’s like that. There aren’t smoking ruins but there might as well be. You can see what it all used to be like. Bustling, vibrant, alive. But now… … [Read more…]
https://www.ft.com/content/260e92f8-980d-4930-8b5f-f8e32d407d0b He hoped that they were indeed from “all around the world” as the ads had said. He had no way of knowing for sure. He wasn’t sure that she was from India. Hell, he didn’t even know if she was really human. She seemed to know so much already. It doesn’t matter, he thought … [Read more…]
https://www.thedrum.com/news/2022/11/21/bloomingdale-s-launches-virtual-mall-with-chanel-nespresso-and-ralph-lauren It was our anniversary. A significant one actually. It had always been our city. We went when we couldn’t really afford it. We walked the streets gazing up at the skyscrapers. It was still possible to be Woody Allen fans. We quoted lines about the Gestapo taking away your charge card. So I decided … [Read more…]
https://www.thedrum.com/news/2022/10/26/claire-s-hopes-vibe-with-gen-zalpha-new-roblox-experience I had to get a “Saturday Job” as my dad called it. Cue the lecture on “when I was a kid… blah blah…” I needed the money and I obviously wasn’t going to get it from them, so… Cue the next lecture on “it’ll look good on your Uni application… When you go for … [Read more…]
https://www.ft.com/content/16ad85e4-ba2d-487c-bc91-6f90e934974f It seemed like it was every other panel. The new big thing. The great hope for the future. Bubble or bandwagon. Every pundit was talking about it. Every vendor wanted to be seen to be in front of it. Every speaker had their own take. It served as opening gambit in every networking conversation … [Read more…]