Contrary to much research, and despite lots of clever product design, digital life curation is not quite so all-consuming. Snapchat – which enables users to exchange picture messages that self-delete within a few seconds of receipt – just raised a $60m funding round at a valuation of $800m, and is now carrying almost 200m daily […]
The strange case of Newbury and Maidenhead
Newbury and Maidenhead nestle quietly west of London. Neither has a professional football team, neither is a hotbed of cutting-edge consumer tech, and neither has >100,000 inhabitants. So when my team launched a Facebook football game, we were rather shocked to see them in the list of top 10 places where our players lived. Scoreboard […]