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What we read this week (11 Nov)
Written by: Peter
This week: Klout violates privacy, a superabundance of screens captures our secondary attention, William Gibson talks about his personal history, McKinsey tries to measure the e-conomy and maybe our future consists of more interaction than a finger-swipe.
Read more »Week 57
Written by: Johannes
An apprenticeship with VCCP Berlin, more work for NEXT12, an update on our work for Postbank and more in this week note.
Read more »What we read this week (3 Nov)
Written by: Peter
This week’s reading includes futurologists, a Mexican soccer club that replaces player’s names with Twitter handles on their shirts, the ongoing debate about “creative technologists”, big business accepting Social Media, and the New York Times’ digital transformation.
Read more »Next Conference 2012: Post-Digital
Written by: Peter
Earlier this year we had the opportunity to work with SinnerSchrader on their Next Conference, where I curated and hosted the track The Social Layer. Today, the team announced Next12 with the overall theme “Post-Digital”, and we are glad that we can – again – contribute.
Read more »Teaming up with VCCP to recruit the Social Media Strategist of the future
Written by: Igor
We are teaming up with VCCP to find, recruit and help shape the strategist of the future. This is very much an experiment, but we believe that together we can provide an interesting career opportunity.
Read more »Week 56
Written by: Peter
Last week we had a chance to dig deeper, with interviews and a topic sprint. Johannes met the good folks at Dachis Group, and we’ll be visiting Bonn and London.
Read more »What we read this week (28 Oct)
Written by: Peter
What a reading list we have for you this weekend. Grab yourself a good cup of coffee, and dig in.
Read more »Cyborgs, identities & asking the right questions
Written by: Peter
We’re all cyborgs, says our friend Sami Niemelä in a talk he gave at Playful Conference in London the other day. Some thoughts on how human and machine identities, and why we can’t find answers just yet.
Read more »Week 55
Written by: Peter
New client, new office, new roommate, new talk – and some thoughts on our company culture.
Read more »Quantifying future
Written by: Igor
On Thursday, I was in Hamburg following the invitation by the lovely people from Brainjuicer to speak at their WINnovation event. I always enjoy an opportunity to go to Hamburg, so I went and talked about Quantified Self and Cities.
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