After reviewing how my five predictions for 2009 did, I was fascinated to get a note from Business Week with the ten worst predictions made for the year. Mine did not make the list, but my good friend Stephen Timewell from the Banker is on there: "In short, under the robust leadership of Sheikh Mohammed,…
Come on, banks have been bailed out. Car manufacturers and all sorts of others have been bailed out. Now Santa needs help. Come on, have a heart. Give generously … I think Santa summed it up well when he said: "I personally would feel awkward asking for $26 billion. That would be ridiculous. But $25…
After the Fat Cat Cash Back internet game comes Bailout Wars, the iPhone App. Here's a brief review: The basic idea is you're defending the white house from five different types of bankers all intent on stuffing their pockets full of the bailout money which is somehow bursting out of the windows of the White…
I love Google's predictive texting, which often finishes my search idea before I get to the end of typing. It's also quite informative about what's on people's minds. For example, as you start typing: "why do bank", you get a list of the most popular things people are asking about banks: Why do banks…
Accenture has sponsored Tiger Woods since 2003, pretty much since they launched as a new brand. But with Pepsi reconsidering their support in light of his recent lack of poor driving, and Gillette wondering whether to continue when Tiger described his car accident as the closest shave he'd ever had, everything is up in the…
Every year the New Oxford American Dictionary chooses a word of the year. This year's word is: unfriend, which is "to remove someone as a ‘friend’ on a social networking site such as Facebook." Other hot contenders for word of the year were: hashtag, intexticated, netbook, sexting, freemium and funemployed. There's a load of Twitter…
