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  Guilty pressures: getting people to give
  
  10/03/2010
  
  Whether it’s a picture of suffering children or a reproachful slogan, guilt has long been used in charity campaigns. But exactly how guilty do you need to make someone feel before they reach for their wallet?
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- Quickfacts: Media
- 10/03/2010
- The participatory news consumer
- The overwhelming majority of Americans (92%) use multiple platforms to get their daily news, according to a new Pew Research Center study.
- Focus
- 10/03/2010
- NDS Dynamic ad engine
- The pay-TV solutions provider NDS makes use of digital video recorders (DVRs) to deliver simple, non-intrusive personalised advertising.
- Focus
- 09/03/2010
- Toom
- Fabrizio Valente, Chairman of Kiki Lab and Founding Member of Ebeltoft, analyses the innovative mix of product and creative solutions on offer at Toom‘s boutique-style concept store.
- Focus
- 09/03/2010
- Next Media
- Next Media is a Taiwan-based animation production company, capable of creating dramatised animations of news events within a couple of hours.
- Quickfacts: Sociological
- 09/03/2010
- The evolution of romance
- In a paper recently published in The Journal of Social, Evolutionary and Cultural Psychology, two Canadian researchers — one of each gender — analyse the titles of Harlequin romance novels.
- Focus
- 08/03/2010
- Papa Sangre
- Papa Sangre is the first game to ditch graphics altogether; players navigate using nothing but their hearing. The iPhone title – something of a next-gen ‘murder in the dark’ - is still in production with a provisional release date of early June.
- Quickfacts: Country Profile
- 08/03/2010
- Australia
- A detailed cross-industry overview of Australia with up-to-date information on demographics, consumer attitudes, retail, media and technology.
- Report
- 05/03/2010
- Is that a tastemaker in your pocket? Mobile and filtering
- As the gatekeeper to the mass of data and applications, smartphones are the multitasking, multipurpose widget of the present and the future. Ilya Vedrashko explores the ways mobile technology can manage and filter the vast amounts of content available.
Bloghunter
- - iPhone app to file for a refund on London Underground
  - 10/03/2010
  - Tube Refund is an iPhone app that aims to significantly reduce the time and effort it takes to file for a refund for a delayed train journey on the London Underground. The app utilizes the iPhone’s form filling functionality to complete the refund form and then submit it to London Underground’s website.
  - Online drinking parties for younger Japanese
  - 10/03/2010
  - The Kobe Shimbun recently reported on a boom happening among drinkers in their twenties and thirties: online nomikai. As we know, Japanese nomikai often have a lot of ritual and social tension, especially when it’s with colleagues: where you sit is important to your rank in the office, and of course you have to be nice to your boss.
  - Microsoft Bing - Information overload
  - 10/03/2010
  - Microsoft takes on Google with this UK ad where they show what information overload has done to us all. Bing is positioning itself as the 'decision engine.' This ad launches a campaign today, that Microsoft is backing with $2bn in media and creative.
  - Green coffee table makes energy enough to power your stuff
  - 10/03/2010
  - Not only does its grassy surface bring a bit of oxygen producing plant-life to your living room, the metabolic process is also captured and converted to energy to charge your cell phone or mp3 player.
  - Spotify heading to TVs in Finland
  - 10/03/2010
  - TeliaSonera will be Spotify’s exclusive retail and marketing partner in Finland for its Spotify Premium service, offering it to its customers on computers, mobile and TVs. The latter will be via Sonera’s new Sonera Home TV IPTV service, which launched today. Spotify will be part of it by summer, the company says.
  - Kook
  - 10/03/2010
  - Kook is a beautiful new surfing newspaper published independently from UK photographer, film maker, publisher, designer and visionary creative Dan Crockett.Printed on paper from sustainable forests it's packed with stunning illustrations, photos and quirky, heartfelt features.

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