Monday, July 21st, 2008
Cor’ what a night, Thought Den had their first Bluetooth and phone gig on Friday the 4th of July up at the RNCM (Royal Northern College of Music) in the Whitworth Gallery and we came away with at least 120 phone numbers! I’d like to pretend we didn’t ask but I’m afraid we needed too, just look at my photo…

We were handling a specific artist’s piece tasked with making everyone’s phone in the gallery ring with the same ring-tone at points though the evening. Our stand was set-up in the gallery’s front entrance to take advantage of anyone with their phone on them. As soon as they were through the doors they were Bluetoot’d out a regal Trumpet solo to their device(s) and then asked to set it as a ring-tone and leave it on the loudest setting they could handle!
It was then we started grabbing numbers… (more…)
Tags: Billy Tabor, bluetooth, calling, Clare Reddington, girls, iShed, June Tabor, music, numbers, phone, ringtone, RNCM, Sam Machin, UGC
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
It could’ve done cos’ the last time you saw the team we were hugging and drinking 9k’s worth of champagne at the final MediaSandbox Event. Well here’s where we’re at…

The Team have been ripping the research apart and putting it back together in the form of the Pervasive Campaign machine ready for investment.
Though June we (more…)
Tags: bluetooth, campaign machine, gps, Happy Packages, investment, post, research, SMS
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Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
What a busy digital week it’s been, there’s been posts from blogs and newspaper articles covering everything exciting in the pervasive and online world.
A lot more mobile technology news stories are beginning to hit the news in comparison with straight internet related interest reads and so this week I’m mostly rounding up any great/bad news that’s affecting the Happy Package’s further development.
Mobile Vouchers for greasy hands

Apparently South Korea isn’t the only place where (more…)
Tags: 118 118, blogs, bluetooth, coupon, Happy Packages, McDonalds, mobile, news, research, RFID, vouchers
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
A strange thing happened outside the office last Wednesday. Oceana runs an under 18 night, and out of the blue came hundreds of kids shrieking and laughing.

So rather than commenting on the youth of today, the price of cheese and other such things, we tried out some Bluetooth gopping with out the support of any Pervasive Relations (P.R). The test also had some different variables to our last gopping experience when we were chased by fanny in town, (more…)
Tags: bluetooth, Bristol, field research, fountain, gopping, merolyn, oceana, Pervasive Relations, test
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Friday, March 28th, 2008
Wow, what a brilliant night we all had at the Cineformation event last night!

The talk had varied speakers from Dr Tom ‘have you read this book’ Abba and Rik ‘new internet tv ideas’ Lander who both rocked out with their own projects. The lovely host Vicky ‘wonky’ Brophy chaired a great night and judging from the comments (some in French!), people loved it.
Thought Den were invited to chair a discussion on the Distribution of Video to Mobile and explore the current scene, but no one had hair nearly as good as Ben’s last night… (more…)
Tags: bluetooth, cineformation, Discussion, film, new media, watershed
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