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Just in case you do read the blog from RSS or Google reader take note it's moving / has moved to wordpress. The full blog address is http://blabinteractive.wordpress.com, however you can always subscribe to the masked address: blabinteractive.comNo offence to blogger. It is a simple service which works. However, some of the additional features of wordpress do make your blogging part-time hobby

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If you've read my previous BLAB then you would know what I am speaking about. I see little value in one directional blogs that exist to complement one's CV. They're nice to have but the with all clutter around, there is little other reason for their existence and time investment. Hence, after more than 240 posts and 800 days of existence I'd like to take stock of who reads any of these blog posts

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Why do people blog, tweet or join a network for that matter? Some join because they'd like to have something to say, others really do have something to say and the rest just enjoy joining in. If your blogging is about attention seeking there is harsh competition in the Attention Economy and you will soon realize that with all the other attention seekers (coupled with the great information clutter

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In 2007 I read 'Design' by Tom Peters and his Essentials Series. Back then, I had bought the book simply because it carried the term 'design' on its cover, in big bold type. 3 years down the line I realize that the best creative people are not those doing 'creative' work but the others who manage to be creative in the coldest of 'office jobs'. The latter manage to turn a boring job into a 'design

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Some BLABs that managed to make it through the clutter of the first 5 days of 2010: Google launches Nexus One http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/gallery/2010/01/05/GA2010010502777.htmlApple acquires Quattrohttp://mashable.com/2010/01/04/apple-quattro-wireless/Trendwatching.com issues January Trend Briefinghttp://trendwatching.com/briefing/A decade in review by AP (via @Phaoloo)http://

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With the holiday season round the corner, much of our marketing budgets will go to the Christmas and NYE's campaigns. I will not go into the the topic of commercialization of the holiday season, and the advertising clutter it brings with it, however, a drive around the island and a scan of the local print and online advertising initiatives makes you shout at the 'Wasted Advertising Space'Rant #1:

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I will be attending the second round of MobileMondays. The first round saw the launch of the MoMo chapter in Malta, two interesting presentations and some quality networking time. The second edition of MoMo in Malta will see yet another good speaker and a showcase of a Business Project. I hope to have some time to review the 2nd MoMo in some more details. More information about MoMo at this link:

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This longish post was featured in the November issue of Technology Sunday, a monthly supplement of The Sunday Times in MaltaThe World Wide Web was conceived some 20 years ago. It is the true embodiment of boundless information which may be retrieved across the globe. Today, the web consists of at least 62.4 million websites which is roughly 8.5 thousand new sites for each day the web has been up

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Nothing new, but worth a listen to remind ourselves where online is coming from...

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I have recently attended Alex Grech's workshop on Social Media. The presentation was music to my ears because it very nicely captured the many thoughts relating to interactive 'marketing' and some new real life insights, some of which triggered us to set up BLAB in the first place.All throughout the presentation I toyed with one question in my mind: "Why don't we all get it (social media that is)

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Vodafone is celebrating the first anniversary of the BlackBerry® Solution in Malta. We had reviewed the launch of the solution back in October of 2008. Since 2008, we have seen a number of Blackberry devices running around on desks, in meetings and offices. Since launching in 2008, Vodafone introduced the Pearl and Curve models followed by the Bold. Over the months, Malta has seen several new

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When Google launched Gmail it limited it to the initial batch of users and their friends - resulting in exponential take-upPrior to its Google Wave launch, Google goes a step further. It now uses Twitter (not facebook, not Orkut (Google's own), not any other tool) to spread the word - resulting in...up to us all really!Here goes my tweet:karlgalea Just requested my Google Wave Invite! Get yours

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This is a longish post about how Augmented Reality could revolutionize the virtual space as we know it. The post was featured in the September edition of Technology Sunday. Today, you probably start and end the day with Facebook. If not you, 70,000 locals do. Facebook, and all the other social media tools, changed the way we consume the web. Prior to that you would read the news on

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I came across this conference I had participated in, the slides of which are available at this link: http://www.mca.org.mt/infocentre/openarticle.asp?WsAppId=590&id=1238&pin=podfk5465g4v6e5r4g6The presentation is almost a year old. I'd like to revisit it and check what's still valid!

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The iCentre is again inviting creatives to submit the next TV ad. The competition closes on the 30th of September.

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A number of agencies are re-vamping new online spaces for all sorts of brands. What hit my inbox this week:Designed by NIU for Ok Ltd. Visit website at ok.com.mtDesigned by ICON for Stephanie Borg. Visit website at stephanieborg.com

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There are two modes of expression, ego-centric and x-centric, which sounds and should be a lot like 'eccentric' however allowing space for the x to be anything (be it customer, purpose, motive) but your ego. What's the benefit of the latter? Primarily, it's not about you; Secondly, it's not about you and can give in to other complementary or opposing ideas. It follows from the belief that

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Today MobileMonday (MoMo) will be launching in Malta. Event details below:Date of launching event Monday, 14th September 2009, from 18:00h to 22:00hVenue: The Palace Hotel, High Street, Sliema SLM1542, MaltaSpeakers: Jari Tammisto CEO/President, MobileMonday GlobalMadanmohan Rao Director of Educaton Project, Mobile Monday. International Consultant, and Speaker in over 60 countries.Topic: Mobile

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I am catching up on a number of emails and readings. For a change I'll list what I catch-up on below:23:10: Old School Music by Lauryn Hill at MTV Unplugged. Music is interactive and definately a marketing tool so make sure to listen to as much music as you can!23:13: Remember Technology Sunday? Well I hope to be able to write some more on the suppliment or elsewhere. Doing some thinking on a

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I got this Twitter status by email:'BBC Radio 1 to broadcast Coldplay's Glasgow gig on Sept 18th (listen online from anywhere) - http://bit.ly/Z7qGg'Have you ever driven for long distances, driving for hours, crossing boarders and countries? Well if you have/had to do that you would know that your car stereo would switch from one radio station to the other on the same or nearby frequency. Some of

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I'd like to drop a line or two about the fresh page / blank sheet approach. This post is less about interactive marketing and more about how we work, which explains that I am doing less reading and more working...which is a contradiction because I strongly believe that the more you work, the more you should read and stay in touch. A fresh page is a clean start, a beginning. A fresh page does not

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I have recently been involved in a project by the English students association DESA. The above is the end result of their hard work and enthusiasm. There is no financial business model in the project but a freshness of colour, discovery and literature. To get to know more about DESA visit their online space at http://soc.um.edu.mt/desa-soc/latest.html

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I admire brands which regularly update their followers/consumers about what they're up to. Some of these brands regularly send e-newsletters which are less of a promotional message and more of an informative one. Often, they even add tips which are in-line or adjacent to their area of expertise. There other brands though, brands that BLAB in bursts, surprise their followers and then go to sleep

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A worthy blab for Blogger which turns 10 next Sunday and hosts this blog amongst many. A good review about Blogger's roots and history at TechCrunch: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/17/before-there-was-twitter-there-was-blogger-and-its-turning-10/

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Image Source: toxel.comI'd like to dedicate this 2 minute blab on my/your/our 'freshness index':How fresh am I in the ideas I propose and the solutions I come up with? How open am I to alternative perspectives to one particular problem? How often do I reject the first idea? How often do I read loads of different stuff which exposes me to areas other then my everyday interests? - That's how fresh

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Top1 Video Ad. at Creativity-Online

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I've just been humbled by the Google Wave Demo which, as big as it may sound, could possible redefine the social web as we know it. Currently this social web allows me to blab and allows you to blab back. With Google wave, I will blab and at the same time, you could edit my blab or blab back. The blabs could come from anywhere, be it the wave client or any other blabbing medium such as twitter,

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I have come across a chart promoting one of Forrester's Research tackling the future of the Social Web. The chart has been sitting on my desktop for quite some time. Over this weekend I have also dedicated sometime to the Razorfish Feed report. The latter is a recommended read for anyone flirting with the 2.0, cutting edge interactive technology or digital overall. It offers brief chapters about

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Read read read! This is what I did not do best lately. Digital is interesting and very powerful, however digital is also very futuristic and as a result highly unclear. August 3 will mark the launch of 'The Chaos Scenario'. The book is written by Bob Garfield. Quoting from the adage site 'the book documents the converging forces he believes doom mass media and mass marketing as we've always known

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The above ad is the latest ad by Barclays. The ad has made it to Creativity-Online top 5 of this week. The ad reminds me so much of The Truman Show film. The Barclays spot wisely puts the Barclays brand above all other brands in context of the current economic crisis in which big banks caused so much trouble!

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Here it goes, TimesofMalta has upscaled its aggregation efforts, and it style if I may add. The new Espresso section aggregates the top stories in one simple page. I would add an RSS feed to the site and possibly a twitter status update!Have a look: http://www.timesofmalta.com/espresso

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The below BLAB is features today in Technology Sunday, a supplement of the Sunday TimesIf the online space were an offline physical environment, say a massive open market, it would consist of at least 62.4 million stands and 93.6 million other booked spaces awaiting their owners to fill up the stand with stuff ready to be sold, shared or exchanged. Some 1.2 billion prospective customers would be

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Just came across another new online space - sellmalta.com. The website is an online directory of buyers and sellers in property.

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These past 4 months have seen me slowing down on my blabs about what's happening in the local media scene so the below is the first of many recaps which I hope will help me regain momentum. I will start off by drawing the top 10 developments i can recap on. They are not exclusive and the list is highly subjective on my memory...so feel free to add more to it if you wish. I will make the list

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Not only did the storm land in Malta but have a look at what it did on the track :)Get one now: http://www.vodafone.com.mt/page/services_business_mobilemail_bb.html

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Aggregate, aggregate, aggregate. If the consumer is now the producer, do not try to compete or join in the discussion, simply aggregate the twits, posts, comments or any blab and let the normal mortal beings online be at the centre of the buzz. I have just come across tinker.com, another aggregation tool for brands. Tinker allows anyone to get all the twits related to a particular topic or brand.

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This month Vodafone launched the i-Mashup competition for the developer community where participants are being urged to be as innovative as possible in designing and developing a mobile application until September 1, 2009.The winners will receive top cash prizes with the opportunity of also winning an additional star prize. First placed winner will get €2500, second place will get €1000 and

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The below BLAB is today being featured in Technology Sunday, a supplement in the Sunday Times of Malta. When Willy Wonka decided to reveal his secret chocolate recipes he hid a limited number of tickets in chocolate bars. Charlie was lucky enough to find one of the five golden tickets and could then experience what it’s like to get inside a real chocolate factory. At that time, Charlie Bucket

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Embedded video from CNN VideoReported on CNN, scientists have developed a way to post messages on Twitter using electrical impulses generated by thought.

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Nicely put, the community is at the centre! Brands just watch the space.

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If all artists had to move away from the myth that an artist is a strange being, scared from anything that is logical, technical and/or digital they would realize that the social web is much more social and as a result, fits their free spirit much more than they think. Some projects are evidence of how free spirits have used digital to extend their love for art and warm emotions:

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Speaking about the longtail in my previous post, seems the longtail will still be owned by the big networks. Google's YouTube has teamed up with Universal Music Group in a revenue-sharing agreement on an ad-funded music service which is said to be the 'Hulu' of music. Read on adage: http://adage.com/digital/article?article_id=135908

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If like me you are a fan of the digital world than you need this link: (http://adage.com/digitalfamilytrees09/) and this poster (http://adage.com/images/random/datacenter/2009/digitalfamilytrees09.pdf) to find your way through the leading digital entities and services. But then again, where would my/your dream digital start-up feature one day?

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At the beginning of this year, or even earlier than that, I had come across Tribes, the popular book by Seth Godin. I have not commited myself to get the book as yet because a long list of titles awaits my attention near my bedside table, my virtual desk and at the office. But with Tribes, comes The Tribes Casebook, which is a free ebook written by the tribe at Triibes.com. Before leaving this

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Facebook has a new layout and many are lost. I think the homepage tour helps navigation so here it goes: http://www.facebook.com/sitetour/homepage_tour.phpStrangely, Facebook never seems to please its networks members in each redesign. Also, the redesign is not a gradual one which results in the need of a map/tour!

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Vodafone has over the weekend launched the first netbook locally. For the record, a netbook is a laptop with in-built mobile broadband functionality. In simple terms, you may get the netbook, go on campus and start browsing without the need of an internet key, WiFi or wired connection. The usual disclaimer follows: I work with Vodafone and so am bound to be slightly biased so have a look for

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If you are into Apple you may have easily come across the 'I'm a Mac, I'm a PC' ads. Well since Apple is moving into phones and mobiles, it has another rival...Blackberry!Even tough I am more of the impression that Blackberry is a business device whilst iPhone is a fun smartphone, any brand wants a bigger share of the pie, even if technically it was never originally its own. The below ad. is

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We're currently re-designing our web layout. Feel free to feedback. It's a totally transparent process!

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VISET Malta plc’s Valletta Waterfront is loved by passengers, tourists and locals alike and offers state of the art sea passenger terminal facilities and is an ideal shopping, dining and entertainment location, in one of the most unique spots in the Mediterranean. The historical development, which dates back more than 250 years, is set overlooking the majestic Grand Harbour and the picturesque

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The original house which launched the Redprints exhibition some months ago will be soon hosting Square. The good news for all creatives is that Square will be hosting your 10 by 10 creative squares. Submission deadline is in a month's time. Read it all online at: http://redprintsblog.com/2009/02/12/square/

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I was recently reviewing the latest HBR Breakthrough Ideas for 2009 and stumbled upon a very interesting read about collective creativity at Pixar. If I may, the art of 'collective' is something we lack in creative circles locally. My perspective of a creative locally is either that of a cut-off artist or a creative business (wo)man who is too creative to share (her) his stuff. Obviously,

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17 leading web firms have signed for the first time a European agreement to improve the safety of under 18's who use social networking sites. These include Arto, Bebo, Dailymotion, Facebook, Giovani.it, Google/YouTube, Hyves, Microsoft Europe, Myspace, Nasza-klaza.pl, Netlog, One.lt, Skyrock, StudiVZ, Sulake/Habbo Hotel, Yahoo!Europe, and Zap.lu.Social networking sites are an emerging social and

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We've been saying all the way that online and offline are becoming one converged reality and so if a brand goes viral online, it would be happening like-wise offline. This article reinforces this stream of thought.Obama mania hits the catwalks of Rome

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An international company with schools in over 300 spots worldwide needs to make a substantial splash in the cyber world too. And it was for that reason that inlingua’s local branch trusted ICON with the long-awaited revamp and re-launch of their web portal. With users all over the world, ICON faced the challenge of creating an easy-to-use, technology savvy and information rich site that would

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The Federation of English Language Teaching Organisations Malta (FELTOM) has taken the lead in establishing quality assurance standards in the EFL industry on the island. Almost 70% of students choose FELTOM member schools when they visit Malta to improve their English Language skills. The member schools add up to a sum of 15 schools around Malta. On the 20th of January FELTOM held its Annual

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Greenpeace UK have just launched a new campaign called 'Airplot!'. The campaign has been designed by Airside, a small studio (by UK standards) which is growing big (by our standards) and which fits very well in the whole campaign (name-wise). The Airplot! campaign protests against the extension of Heathrow Airport's third runway. The Greenpeace is much more than a virtual community, such as the

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I recently had a chat with a friend of mine about creativity in marketing campaigns locally. The argument revolved around the lack of new and creative ideas which agencies and brands put forward. I was about to jump in the boat and add in other restrictions in the local market, mainly tiny budgets and just tiny per se. But my statistical background makes me want to research almost everything.

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Everyone should have a look! No need to say more!BLAB's brief (for those who are still not convinced)I stumbled upon this resource through the Ogilvy website, which I was reminded about whilst reading trendwatching's newsletter. Many are speculating about the recession but some simply attempt to extract the positive things about it. Past editions of Advertising Age hinted at a number of products

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I am currently away from tiny Malta having a 1-week long break. There is so much more to revisit before the end of the year, but it'll be done in 2009. Before closing off the 2008 BLAB chapter I'd like to recommend the 'Top 50 Have-Yous' as a good start to some reasonable and useful new year's resolutions. I stumbled upon the free download on the Tom Peters website. The document is only 5 pages

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With all the new dots (.coms, .nets, .mts, etc.) we've seen in 2008 it's worthy to wish you all a happy Christ.mas. The dot makes the name even more meaningful!Some more blogs should follow before the big 09 starts reading BLAB!

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Over the past year Vodafone has been working on an initiative which allows the man in the street, be it student or not, a Vodafone employee (like me) or not, to propose any ideas which they want. Vodafone will in return assist the idea originators to implement their ideas if the Innovation Committee deems the ideas successful. more info: http://www.vodafone.com.mt/page/whoarewe_myideas.html

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Malta Enterprise has been entrusted by the Managing Authority for Structural Funds as an Intermediate Body responsible for administering six European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) Grant Schemes. The Schemes focus on: tapping new international markets, encouraging start-up initiatives which have been around for less than 3 years, providing incentives for the introduction of innovations in SMEs,

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It has been almost a month since we blabbed in this space and a lot has been happening in our personal lives and the local market. Some things which I hope to be blabbing about soon:The recent NSO news releases about Use of Internet and CommunicationsSome new names in print: Style (on Sunday), Phaseand some interesting initiatives online: blog.com.mt, youall.com.mt, superstoremalta.comFinally, I

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ICON has recently sent us some good news (posted below):The Malta Enterprise E-Commerce Tax Credit Incentive, aimed at online businesses, will be in place until the end of the year. The tax credit is equivalent to 100% of the eligible costs as approved by Malta Enterprise, up to a maximum of 12,000 euros per project. The incentive will be awarded under the de minimis aid rules in terms of

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This is the 9th Agency Insider blog post. In this post, we chat with Daphne Caruana Galizia about Taste.com.mt and the whole Taste project, conceived in November of 2004(4 years ago this month)KG: Taste turned 4 last June. How has the project changed since 2004? DCG: Taste magazine has changed a great deal, growing from 64 stapled pages to 144 burst-bound pages at its largest. We’ve changed the

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Strategy 2.0 (post no. 1)Without trying to be too 'online' oriented my answer to the above question is Amazon. - It has at least 16 million products on sale- A very large chunk of the occupied households can access it (walk in) all day long - This implies they can review (window shopping), purchase and evaluate (recommend)If your answer is not somewhat similar to the above you probably still

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Apple has just launched the new MacBook and MacBook Pro. I was initially disappointed to see what seemed like a black and white MacBook but a closer look at the new model revealed the new notebook has a solid aluminum casing. Much more like the original MacBook Pro on the keypad, and a lot like the iMac on the screen part. It's nice too see Senior Vice President of Design John Ive describe the

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FELTOM commissioned web development agency ICON to build a web portal which is its central tool for relations with the international market. The site is creatively structured to accommodate the complexity of having a federation of language schools communicating a single message: "Learn English in Malta". The web portal features a number of ICON applications which we hope to be able to review soon

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This morning I came across the new mscfantasia.com. A clean site with a visual feature about the MSc Fantasia Cruise Ship dominating the home page. Even though the website still lacks any touch of community it does include some fun features such as the navigation gallery where anyone can 'navigate' the cruise ship and visit the various sections of it; a virtual personal assistant and a Q&A

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The above chart is taken from an article run by emarketer.com about Social Media Advertising in the US. Locally there are at least 24,000 users subscribed to the Malta network on Facebook. This excludes people who have not joined the network but still have a facebook profile, others on Hi5 which seems to be the most popular network locally, MySpace and social networks in general. Avoiding the

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Dreams become reality in small steps...not big ones as we (or I) might think! This weekend I visited Alexandra Pace's exhibition in Valletta. The exhibition marks the launch of the redprints online gallery. Alexandra is exhibiting 4 collections which grace different parts of the old house in St. Lucy Street. All 4 collections, and the whole redprints project (house re-innovation included) are

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Vodafone has publicly launched an online booking form for the iPhone 3G. We've said a lot about the 3G iPhone since day 1, now it's time to stop BLABbing and actually get the gadget! More info at this link: http://www.vodafone.com.mt/jsp/iphone/index.jsp

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A year ago we sat down to discuss BLABinteractive.com. The original plan was much more ambitious yet some surprises were still in store for this humble blog. I am currently working on Recap 365!. The idea behind the project is a resume of BLAB's first year. Apart from including the main highlights of this past year, I also hope to be able to provide some info. about BLAB's future content and

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Vodafone has today launched Blackberry in Malta. I currently own a great Nokia E61 which is a fantastic tool coupled with Vodafone's Push Email, and a very good taste of the term 'mobility'. Now Vodafone's Blackberry solution further enhances 'mobility' in many ways, combining useful applications which literally reduces your office to a simple device. Oh yes, I am biased, very biased indeed...but

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From time to time my desktop wallpaper has to feature something that triggers some form of creativity and fun. Whilst searching some images in Google I also stumble upon this website. As you may conclude, the subject of the site is not my primary concern at this time in my life, but the way an extensive menu has been presented without involving sub-menus and further sub-sub menus is worth a blab.

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Locally, it's probably the third print magazine to expand online following Taste and ME magazine. The web launch for FM (Femme Magazine) took place at Misfits some time in early September. The interesting thing about the website is that it classifies itself as a 'lifestyle website' which really offers endless and diverse content which could fit in and make the site what it aims to be.

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Have you seen some more colourful bus shelters recently? The above is the proof that spaces can also be used to promote creativity and ideas...not simply sell messages! The first ever YCN Live consisted of 'A huge amount of events staged on numerous, world-wide platforms including illustrations in bus shelters in Malta (pictured), Sand sculptures on London's south bank, installations in Helsinki

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I've recently come across a very good insight about online vs. offline customer traffic. In history many were the big revolutions that changed the way we do things. On of them, online, has certainly changed the way customers consume brands and products. Some would have thought that online is for techies and the mainstream consumer will not be interested in this geeky stuff. Others have proved

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Google has 2 days ago released its neew web browser. The launch of Chrome came as a surprise, even for the people at Google! Some guy at Google pressed the send button to early and sent to the public a comic of Google Chrome depicting the new product features. I will not get into the techy stuff of why Google Chrome should be better than IExplorer, Firefox, Mozilla and Safari but considering it

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FPM stands for Fourth Place Medal and is a series of awards given by a group of bloggers on the Yahoo Olympics Sports page. One of the awards recognizes the best Olympic Themed Ad. Nike's ad proclaiming "All that you need is inside of you" is the winner of the FPM Medal for best commercial. The advert is motivating and well in line with the Olympics spirit but side-by-side, Visa's GO World advert

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Some time has passed since the last Agency Insider. In this issue we chat with Art Director Jon Banthorpe about ME design magazine, its local online presence and the local print industry...and promise this discussion will not end here!KG: So ME was previously Modern Elegance and had been published for some time. The magazine worked and was one of the coolest around from the very beginning, but

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I've just received a list of Amazon Best-Sellers. I will not simply reproduce the whole list but I'd like to highlight this particular book. I love political campaigns, especially when these are seen from a purely marketing perspective. Hence, if you're into this as well, you may find this link quite interesting: read moreP.S. this is not a sponsored recommendation!

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Baidu is often described as 'the Google of China'. Numbers show that Baidu manages to capture over 62% of Search in China and places 19th in Alexa's overall site ranking. Being a leading search engine and being in China, Baidu has come up with online services dedicated to the Beijing Olympics which unfortunately, I had to translate using Google Translator!Whilst being big in China, Baidu has also

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Since Google has set out to conquer the world it could not miss out on featuring the World's Olympic Games! The Google doodles (logos) featuring next to the search box are only a small part of Google's initiatives related to this year's Olympics. Amongst these initiatives one can mention iGoogle's Olympics Gadget featuring the latest results and game information. The same information featuring in

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During the next 15 days you can spend sometime pondering on the 'Creative use of Space' and come up with a cool and appropriate design for minispace.com expressing your thoughts about the subject. Apart from getting the chance to feature your artwork on mini's site, you may also win some interesting goodies (including a 32GB iPod touch). More details here If on the other hand you are too busy to

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It's August and the business world will soon be on shutdown, yet Lab1977 keep opening new online venues which are pleasing to the eye. The latest has been a brand new website for SMS Travel. Following the busy pre-summer months during which everyone was planning his/her vacation, SMS must have dedicated some time to refurbish their online space. The website is animation based which for a

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July has been a relatively quiet month on BLAB and we need some catching up on a number of interesting stuff happening locally and abroad. Starting off I'd like to introduce Vodafone Soundbites:The site has been launched just last Sunday and is being run together with MTV networks. This is not the first initiative Vodafone has done within the international music scene. Vodafone's Music site is

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I am currently in Australia with Salt. There is limited blogging time but a lot to BLAB about and so I promise to come back with a number of interesting posts related to Australia, the WYD Media Related Initiatives and advertising related ideas I come across whilst in transit, inflight or running around!In the meantime SALT has also gone interactive for this 3-week trip. You can read all about

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This week I had the pleasure of presenting a seminar about 'New Media' at the first ever Digital Arts Expo locally (MIDA 2008). The seminar explored successful new media initiatives taking place globally within Vodafone companies and why digital media players such as MySpace and Yahoo are teaming with Vodafone. Apart from the Vodafone seminar there were a number of very good seminars / workshops:

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The Internation Fair of Malta is back, this time at the MFCC in Ta' Qali. The new location is a first for the 'tradefair' which for years has been taking place in Naxxar. BLAB will review the stands at the tradefair over the next week. Amongst the new brands at Tradefair is Banif Bank.

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The first issue of Town magazine will be out on the 29th of June but Daphne Caruana Galizia of Proximus has kindly allowed us to preview it a week before. According to the books, a business is like a person, with its ups and downs, struggles, achievements and moods. So when one tries to identify the people behind a particular business venture, their story is as personal as business can get. High

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Vodafone has over the past week launched a new top-up voucher card which comes along with lower calling rates. The nice thing about the '30 Bonus Card' is that it has been launched specifically for online customers. Admittedly I am a loyal Vodafone fan but the online initiative makes sense even when one considers the latest Eurobarometer survey in which 44% of Maltese customers said they used the

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With summer round the corner we'll make it a point to draw up BLAB's Reading Wish List. (suggestions are welcome)#1: The Dip by Seth Godin: A little book that tells you when to quit and when to stick! Seth Godin has been on my list for some time. The little I've read about The Dip makes me think I need to first of all be able to outline 'dips' and tackle them accordingly. As Seth Godin suggests,

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'eBusinessMalta.com is a consortium of Malta's leading eBusiness organisations, namely company & fiduciary services providers, hosting & co-location facilities provider, e-payment solution provider and a recruitment agency / portal'BLAB caught up with Jonathan Dalli and eInterviewed him about the whole idea behind this eVenture.KG: It seems to me as the perfect one stop shop for any company in

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"next time you're in Malta and you need an iPhone 3G, it'll be there" - Steve Jobs (watch it below 2.46s)Everyone is speaking about the new 3G Iphone but really and truly something better happened last night (CET): Steve Jobs mentioned Malta in the key note speech launching the 3G Iphone at WWDC '08. As a result Malta gets the best free advert on Forbes.com, biz.yahoo.com, endgaget.com,

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It is not the first time that Alexandra Pace was mentioned on Blab, but this time I've asked her to choose her top 5 favourite works...a very difficult task for any artist. What follows is her contribution to Blab. My Top 5 ProjectsThese are my favourite 5 projects. I wouldn’t say there is any order of preference; they all represent important and special parts of my life and career.Slideshow of

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I think this story justifies in a few lines why professional people should blog, share and not build their own 'political silos' at the workplace:Many years ago, three soldiers,hungry and weary of battle, came upon a small village. The villagers, suffering a meager harvest and the many years of war, quickly hid whatlittle they had to eat and met the three at the village square, wringing their

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It has been a quiet week on BLAB but I found some time to get to know more about the Paqpaq initiative and its ever increasing popularity both with car enthusiasts and advertisers. In the next few lines, Tonio Darmanin, a Marketing lecturer by profession and the man behind this initiative, honored us with a few 'blabs' about Paqpaq:Picture: Car review on Paqpaq; Source: paqpaq.tv KG: Classic

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I got to know about Shelton films whilst going through the winners of this year's YouTube awards. Shelton Films won the 'Short Film Category' and my curiousity led me to briefly interview Ben from Sheltonfilms.com, the producers of the award winning short (online) film 'My Name is Lisa'. The film placed third in 'YouTube project: Direct' and aims to raise awareness about Alzheimer Disease.

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