John V Willshire

I’ve been thinking about writing a fulsome post on perfect competition for a while now. It’s as a result of a previous post here and there, new technological developments I keep seeing around and about, and as a throwback to my economics & econometrics degree (and doesn’t THAT seem a long time ago now). The [...]

A few of us from PHD & PHD Drum went over to see a company called Inition yesterday; we worked with them on making the Cadbury’s fairtrade ad from Fallon into a 3D version for showing before Avatar. And we saw lots of really cool 3D TV stuff, and some augmented reality malarkey too… …but [...]

Mashable brings us some lovely juicy yearly growth of social networks figures (for the US, I may try later and get the relevant UK stats)… The winner, as expected of course, is Facebook, who just keep piling on those numbers.  And on the face of it, Twitter’s had a great year too… …but there is [...]

(picture of Utility’s sign in Brighton… thanks to clever Matt for the clever title) “…there’s a frood who really knows where his towel is“ …from Hitch-hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams I’m becoming increasingly fascinated by location. The location of not just people, but of things too (yes, like towels)… …and of course [...]

The what?  The Apple whodjimmy?  The iPad?  What, you hadn’t heard?  Oh, they did some launch thing over in the States on Wednesday… OK, so you can hardly have missed it, but here’s what I think are the headline points to bear in mind… …but firstly, a quick overview of the device itself:   It [...]