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Notes from a curious life.

Model of disruption

Interesting talk tonight with Anina, the French blogging model, at the LIFT06 pre conference drinks party in Les Enfants Terribles here in Geneva. As reported previously, her French agency has issued some sort of ultimatum on the lines of stop blogging or stop modeling. Apparently in modeling you have a ‘mother’ agency who in turn […]

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A Supermarket War in Store

So Tesco didnt buy Albertsons (see my previous entry here) which is good news for Tesco shareholders here in the UK. A US based retailer Supervalu did instead as part of a consortium which seems to make a lot of sense to me. Good story here including a glance at the problems Walmart seem to […]

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Fall of the traditional wedding album?

Neat idea this:-Entrepreneurial-minded wedding photographers John Andrews and Eric Hegwer have added “iPod Proofs” to their services, featuring custom-engraved his-and-hers video iPods with music, photos and slideshows of your wedding, including all photos they make. (Hence, proofs. A better name, I think, would be iPod Keepsakes.) Fits in with my idea of establishing a franchise […]

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Fall of the traditional wedding album?

Neat idea this:-Entrepreneurial-minded wedding photographers John Andrews and Eric Hegwer have added “iPod Proofs” to their services, featuring custom-engraved his-and-hers video iPods with music, photos and slideshows of your wedding, including all photos they make. (Hence, proofs. A better name, I think, would be iPod Keepsakes.) Fits in with my idea of establishing a franchise […]

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Another of my heroes dies

The veteran US soul singer Wilson Pickett has died, aged 64, after suffering a heart attack in Virginia. His management company said that he had been in poor health for the past year. Born in Alabama, Pickett shot to fame in the 1960s, with hits including In The Midnight Hour and Mustang Sally. I remember […]

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