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Image search tools you should have tried

By Wiki Wall

Thursday, 3 November, 2011

Categories: Digital

Here are some links to idee labs, a cool directory to serach for images. Here you can search by colour, find random combinations of images and even upload an image to find out where it is being used on the web. http://labs.ideeinc.com/  

QR codes & cheese on toast

By Wiki Wall

Thursday, 1 September, 2011

Categories: Brand, Digital

Yesterday, the inventor of the Flip video camera, Jonathan Kaplan, opened the Melt, the first of a proposed chain of cheese-on toast restaurants, San Francisco. Different to other fast food restaurants, you can order and pay for your cheese sarnie online or through your smartphone. The confirmation...

Apple through the ages

By Wiki Wall

Thursday, 25 August, 2011

Categories: Brand, Digital

With Steve Jobs stepping down from his role as Apple CEO, Brand Republic has been bitten by the nostalgia bug and looked at Apple’s marketing history. Naturally a few of the iconic campaigns are in there – we think we even spotted Masood from Eastenders in the first iPod ad circa 2001! ...

From Russia with advice

By Wiki Wall

Monday, 15 August, 2011

Categories: Technology

Here’s an interesting app being used in Moscow to help inform drivers about road safety. The idea behind the app is even though there are 100s of accidents every single day of the week on the very roads we travel that claim lives we very rarely see these accidents and by the time we are drivin...

Were the riots 'targeted free shopping'?

By Wiki Wall

Thursday, 11 August, 2011

Categories: Brand

Brand Republic explores ‘why brands may be culpable for this week's rioting, and how they can play a role in improving society’. It looks at the most-hit places during the riots, including JD Sports, Argos, Currys, Foot Locker, and Carphone Warehouse, hinting that the latest smartphone ...

Exploiting social media for good

By Wiki Wall

Thursday, 11 August, 2011

Categories: Digital

Social media has had some bad press over the past few days with calls to take Twitter and Blackberry’s Messenger service offline to try and quell the spread of rioting. But it’s social media that is now helping to fight back. The UK Metropolitan Police on Tuesday opened up their stream o...

Teens 'addicted' to smartphones

By Wiki Wall

Friday, 5 August, 2011

Categories: Technology

According to Brand Republic, Britons are "addicted" to smartphones with over a quarter of all adults and nearly half of all 12 to 15-year-olds owning one, according to research from Ofcom. One in three adults and 60% of teenagers who own smartphones said they were "highly addicted" to them, accordi...

AOL launches 'Editions' tablet magazine

By Wiki Wall

Wednesday, 3 August, 2011

Categories: Digital, Technology

It is the latest in a string of personalised ’magazine’ apps designed specifically for tablets, is AOL's 'Editions' Editions, works in a similar way to one of our favourite iPad apps, Flipboard, which aggregates content from a variety of sources.Content from AOL-owned properties, includ...

What does $114.5 trillion look like?

By Wiki Wall

Thursday, 28 July, 2011

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With the USA’s unfunded liabilities standing at $114.5 trillion, it’s hard to comprehend how much money that really is. Step forward the people at wtfnoway.com who have shown the sheer scale of the problem by looking at what $114.5 trillion would look like if you stacked $100 bills. It...

Do Facebook ads work?

By Wiki Wall

Tuesday, 26 July, 2011

Categories: Digital

Facebook’s  already serving more than 50 billion display ads per month and is on track to serve 1 trillion display ads for the year. So what value do brands get who advertise through social media? According to recent research by Mintel, as reported by Brand Republic , over 60% of social ...

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Name: Wiki Wall

Title: Wall of knowledge

Company: Rufus Leonard

About Wiki:

The Wiki Wall is an installation we have in The Drill Hall whereby interesting, topical and relevant stories are posted onto the main wall in the studio. We have done this in order to bring online and offline innovation and thought creation together and to exchange knowledge and insight throughout the agency.

Through this profile, we will share our thoughts on the latest news and interesting development in brand, digital and technology with you.