February 2012
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It had been predicted in many different places, as the battle between powers such as Google and Facebook continued that the
re-emergence of broadcast media was a strong possibility in 2012 as brands continue to fight for user engagement.
Broadcast media has been in the forefront previously with Apple launching their own personalised AppleTV service, which having experienced first-hand, is a...
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24 hours of freedom
I think it’s fair to say that a lot of people nowadays probably couldn’t live without a mobile phone, whether it’s just a phone for calling and texting or a smartphone for playing games, tweeting and taking the occasional photo.
I more than anyone, being a computer student, find it often very difficult to put my phone down with the temptation of been connected to the internet while I’m out and...
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WatchSpeculation was rife that Sacha Baron Cohen would get up to something at this year’s Oscars to promote his new film, The Dictator. But I don’t think anyone quite expected this!! I don’t know which is worse - the whole Kim Jong-il thing in general, or the fact he ruined Ryan Seacrest’s suit! Maybe this time SBC has gone too far?? But, you’ve gotta love his...
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http://m.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&hl=en-GB&client=mv... →
Just the other day I was chatting about how Nokia phones had got left behind in iPhone and Blackberry’s dust, now I turn up at my brother’s and he is showing me his new phone, the Nokia Lumia.
Nokia teamed up with Microsoft Windows after finally realising a slick handset doesn’t compete with having the latest technology.
I thought I should have another check out of their...
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http://randomacts.channel4.com/#view/164 →
I saw this the other day, its one of the channel 4 random acts called ‘This Is It’ Its all about being creative. Thought it was pretty weird and I basically loved it.
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Tatty Devine v Claires Accessories
As Twitter continues to go crazy today following yesterday’s trending of @clairesstores, the debate rolls on as to when taking inspiration from something you like or admire, goes a little bit too far!
Claire’s Accessories are in a bit of bother for nicking designs from Tatty Devine - you can see what Tatty Devine had to say on the matter on their blog here:
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Go Jets! →
After playing netball for over 10 years its great to finally see netball gain better game coverage. Although the Jets lost their match on 27th January, the game was close and the crowd loved it!
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Impress.js. →
Adam Holt, one of our newest street team members is studying Web Design and just had to share with us impress.js.
Impress.js is JavaScript library which brings presentations to the web. Using the power of css3 transforms and transitions provided by modern browsers the library allows rotation and scaling of elements and lifts the limitations of desktop presentation software.
Check it out.
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Look Book
“LOOKBOOK.nu” is a fashion and youth culture website, created by Yuri Lee in San Francisco. It is an online fashion diary which was inspired by street fashion websites and blogs such as The Sartorialist and designed for users to post their own street-fashion photography, featuring themselves and their outfits.
We have started something a bit similar in the office, snapping...
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Up to 10% drop in UCAS applications in England...
Last week figures were released which truly show the clear affect the tuition fee increases have had on the number of university applications across the country.
Across the entire country there was a 9.9% decrease overall in the number of applicants applying through UCAS although in some regions in England the figure was much greater.
At the University of Hull, where tuition fees tripled to...
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January 2012
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Pushing all the right buttons
So this week will see a whole host of Radio 1 DJs and amazing new artists descending on Hull for the weekend finale to the new music month that’s been running throughout January on Radio 1 and 1xtra.
There are loads of free events, shows and DJ sets going on across the city (for full info: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/events/hull/ ) – and on Friday night it’s Pete Tong’s turn at City Hall, with...
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Ed Sheeran is coming to Hull, get your tickets... →
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Rebranding Ed Miliband
Force-7 was asked to contribute to a feature in today’s Yorkshire Post, asking local marketing agencies for ideas on how to rebrand Labour leader, Ed Miliband.
Here’s the article in all it’s glory, but we’ve included what our Creative Manager, Beccie, had to say in the feature below (cos the writing in the photo is pretty tiny and might hurt your eyes if you try to read...
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skins is back
So last night, many of the Force-7 team were watching the first episode of the new season of skins and it has had mixed reviews in the office this morning.
Firstly, the question was, what are they doing in Morocco? It’s not exactly top of the list of destinations for most 18 year olds going on a girls’ / lads’ holiday - but the skins crew are all too cool for Malia / Kavos...
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Wiki Blackout
No doubt on Wednesday 18th January, there were many students around the world who were thrown into a state of panic when they could not reach their dependable information source Wikipedia!
So why did Wikipedia black out, black out all 3,849,239 English-language pages on their own site. Well it is all revolving around the US governments continued pressure to pass a bill, ‘The Protect IP Act’...
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BlackBerry bosses step down
Today we hear the news that the co-chief executives of Research in Motion – the makers of BlackBerry – have stepped down from the top jobs as they failed to reverse the company’s decline.
Ever since the fateful service outage in October, and the part BBM played in organising the riots shortly in August, it was surely only a matter of time until something had to change over at BlackBerry HQ....
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Too Much, Too Young? →
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