Archive for the 'Steve Jobs' Category

Apple, the iPod and networked innovation.

Thursday, June 7th, 2007 | No Comments »

If you’ve been keeping tabs on this blog recently you know that I do love my apple computer and that I’m curious about networks and how networks can accelerate innovation. This weeks cover story for The Economist is “What other companies can learn from Apple.”

The magazine sets out four ideas:
“The first is that innovation [...]

Greenpeace explains how Apple is at the core of its campaign

Friday, June 1st, 2007 | No Comments »

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Greenpeace have just popped this up on Youtube to show how they are still using Apple technology to keep in touch with Steve Jobs over their Greenmyapple campaign. Tom Dowdall, the web editor at Greenpeace International, has just e-mailed me to say they borrowed a headline from an [...]

Greenmyapple bears fruit.

Thursday, May 3rd, 2007 | 4 Comments »

The BBC reports on Apple’s plans to make “greener” products. Steve Jobs statement is a direct response to the almost perfectly pitched and pithily web 2.0 Greenmyapple campaign from Greenpeace (which also won the activism Webby on Tuesday). I wrote earlier this year about how it uses the weight of the brand to intensify the [...]

Green iPod

Sunday, January 21st, 2007 | 2 Comments »

Number 2 on the netsquared, squidoo, getactive list of the 59 smartest online organisations was Greenpeace. It has gradually been chipping away at Apple with classic guerilla tactics – using their opponents weight to their own advantage. Greenpeace is encouraging supporters to use the creative power of their macs to imagine, produce and [...]

Steve Jobs for President!

Friday, September 22nd, 2006 | 1 Comment »

I use Apple
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computers all the time. It was Apple which popularised podcasting, our listeners get the Grassroots Channel through Apple’s iTunes software and Apple machines and programmes help me with everything from making films to making christmas cards. So [...]