Buttons, Roof Decks & Fires!

So I dressed up today ready for a fine lunch in Soho... I put my best dress; a number purchased when Christmas bonuses weren't fiction! I love the dress, it was my first All Saints purchase BUT the buttons come undone every ten minutes and of course, by 11am a guy on the train, a guy on the bridge and finally my new boss got a flash of my bra. Nice work.

Off we go to lunch, hoping for the main roof terrace, ending up on the roof deck which was more casual but still felt quite exclusive. The food was good quality, I ordered a rare cheeseburger, it was served medium but it was still tasty & surprisingly reasonably priced for bar food.


After my dress coming undone a few times (must wear a vest next time) and some good chat with our hosts we began to smell bonfires and notice grey smoke in the air. Eventually the grey smoke evolved into black billowing monsters consuming Old Compton Street's skyline. The Maitre'd closed the deck's roof covers so we finished up and ran back to the office to get onto twitter!

p.s. I hope no one has been hurt & that a beuatiful buildning hasn't been completely destroyed

Hate to say it but I'm Bonkers about this one....

1408

Watched this last night, it resulted in the most disturbing nightmares of my life. The film is based on a Stephen King short story, I sometimes forget just how sick and twisted he can be. I would recommend this to anyone who likes horror films or psychological thrillers, King knows how to build suspension like no one else....

AER - OBAMA

My favourite song (Aerodynamic) remixed by my favourite all time DJ celebrating Obama's inaugeration - AWESOME!

Goodbye Bush

You have to love this, it looks like a real ad - does anybody know???

Brilliant.

LOVE THIS AD!!!

During my winter hibernation I was sent the below viral and I'd like to take my hat off to the creative agency - it's an example of how modern ads should be made;

- men and women from teens upwards will understand the message
- it's amusing
- it can be used online, TV as well as mobiles etc.

It would work well as a pre-roll and obviously it has worked perfectly as a viral and the youtube video is currently counting over 1,000,000 views!

The Truly Social Mobile

I've been away, visting bonnie Scotland, with no broadband internet access; just me, my mobile and many mountains. I have a Skypephone S2 which serves it's purpose, it was the cheapest HSDPA enabled replacement for the N95 I lost in May. So basically while I was away I used the Facebook app, a lot. It's free, I could keep in touch with those who I didn't need/want to phone/text etc and I could also access news sites through my HSDPA, so no need to walk to the shops in the freezing cold, all good!

The Skypephone S2 also comes loaded with the Skype application (it's all in the name you see), giving me free calls to anyone with a Skype account. This is pretty irrelevant to me as I don't use Skype, although I do have my sister as a test contact. One feature I discovered during this test is that you can link your Skype contacts to your normal phonebook. So, your phonebook shows you if they are logged into Skype meaning you can easily choose to call someone via Skype rather than pay to call abroad (if that contact is abroad). Pretty nifty huh?

So imagine how amazed I was when Three came in to our mobile event and showed us the INQ phone, I wasn't allowed to blog about it as it hadn't gone to market but now it has and I have to say it sounds bloody brilliant! The INQ phonebook is linked into Facebook and Skype in the same way as only Skype is on the Skypephone, your messages interface doesn't just show you your recent text messages, it also shows you your Facebook messages or any Skype chat that you may have received. They are calling it a social mobile and I have to agree with them, I just worry that the bad press 3 receive regarding signal (a totally archaic point of view, I always have signal) will prevent the phone truly reaching the masses....