Digital Digest
Retail tech: Shops have got dozens of ways to tell you to talk to the hand
There was a time, not so long ago, when shop staff lived in fear of a complaint letter to the manager. These days it’s impossible to have such an impact. Technology hasn’t improved relations between customers and the bosses. In fact, it’s made it a lot harder to communicate your dissatisfaction. Deliberately so, in many cases, I would argue. And yes, I do have evidence to back this statement up.
By Nick Booth | Bytesize, Digital Digest | Monday, 20 May 2013 at 3:00 am
How retail technology could save the record
Did you go to your local record shop on Record Store Day? It was a nationwide series of events aimed at saving the nation’s independent record shops. Come on, these are the keepers of the flame. If we don’t support them they’re gone and the world will belong to the likes of Simon Cowell. So did you go and buy something from your local record shop?
By Nick Booth | Bytesize, Digital Digest | Wednesday, 8 May 2013 at 5:00 am
Interview with SoundCloud’s Alexander Ljung
I was recently fortunate enough to get the chance to sit down with Alexander Ljung, founder and CEO of SoundCloud. For those of you not familiar with the service, SoundCloud is the web’s largest online audio distribution platform with over 30 million registered users, hosting content that reaches more than 180 million people per month.
By Alex Masters | Bytesize, Digital Digest | Friday, 3 May 2013 at 1:00 pm
Technology could give shopping the fun factor
The retail industry has always been fun because it’s about people. You see everything in this environment: all human life is here.
By Nick Booth | Bytesize, Digital Digest, Notebook | Tuesday, 2 April 2013 at 3:49 pm
Barking Blondes: Doggy apps, lost pooches and ‘petworking’
Dogs are big business! As well as dog ownership doubling in six years, the pet industry has boomed in the UK, with an estimated value of £7 billion, increasing by seven per cent annually despite the recession. The past decade has seen an explosion of doggy gadgets, toys and clothes. Well, now it seems the computer age has targeted dog owners with the app market believing it can enrich your relationship with your dog.
By Joanne Good and Anna Webb | Bytesize, Digital Digest, Notebook | Sunday, 31 March 2013 at 4:00 am
How new digital technology is helping young people to cope with mental illnesses
Mental illness can be your very worst companion. It might keep you in your bed all day, coiling round you with its tight embrace and soft whispers, “Stay here. The morning’s past and you’ll never manage anyway. You can try again tomorrow but today’s already lost.” When bedtime beckons, you might not sleep. Your illness bothers you with its tears and its worries or its silence until morning returns.
By Mei Leng Yew | Bytesize, Digital Digest | Tuesday, 12 March 2013 at 3:19 pm
What they don’t tell you about online shopping and trading
One of the myths about online retail technology was that it would only pass on benefits to the consumer. That’s not always the case. Everything is cheaper online, right? Wrong! That’s what they want you to believe.
By Nick Booth | Bytesize, Digital Digest | Tuesday, 12 March 2013 at 2:27 pm
Tech predictions for 2013 and has Apple fallen from the top of the technology tree?
I was last asked to work up a few technology predictions in 2009 and looking back I was bang on the money with the Apple iPad. Even down to the size and material finish. My prediction on the rise of mobile-enabled shopping or mass consumer geotagging wasn’t so accurate then, but maybe I was just ahead of my time.
By Mike Mathieson | Bytesize, Digital Digest, Notebook | Thursday, 7 March 2013 at 5:02 pm
Video games are good for you!
Bigger than the cinema box office, bigger than music and bigger than books, the video games industry is big business. Global software revenues exceed £30 billion a year, and are predicted to rise to nearly £60 billion a year by 2015. Yet its growth and success are little known. Games are played by hundreds of millions of people around the world.
By Ian Livingstone | Bytesize, Digital Digest, Notebook | Thursday, 7 March 2013 at 1:04 pm
Retail technology companies could do far more to help the charity sector and it would cost them hardly anything
One of the most enduring popular myths about the modern economy is that there’s an easy fortune to be made in online trading, if you can only be bothered to make the effort. The implication is that the unemployed really ought to jolly well pull their socks up and start a business.
By Nick Booth | Bytesize, Digital Digest | Wednesday, 6 March 2013 at 4:10 pm
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