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Awesome job demoing Kinectimals for Xbox 360 Kinect by Mark Young at Advertising week during his session on the Future of Digital Technology.

I’m in the Big Apple this week for Advertising Week covering the event for Microsoft Advertising.

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Seth Godin kicked off with an awesome presentation!

Our intro video below:

From the Windows Phone team:

“Go ahead and stare the user interface of the Windows Phone 7 deserves it. That’s the reaction we got at Mobile World Conference in Barcelona when we revealed this new holistic design system that brings together form and function based on key principles — informing every aspect of the phone. See what everyone is talking about by checking out this video.”

I’ve seen one.

I’ve even touched it.

I’m getting one.

Will you?

From my cab ride this morning!

Not sure why I packed the sun tan lotion for my trip to Asia!

Re-posting this video seeing as I’m down in Singapore right now.

I’m en route to Hong Kong to see the Microsoft Advertising Asia team there and speak at SES Hong Kong.

I’ll be on the B2B ROI and Social Media panel with Eddie Choi at the helm.

Lots to come from this part of the world. I met a lot of agency and brand execs while I was in Cannes.

Check out these video interviews from our Microsoft Advertising YouTube Channel from the advertising festival in the South of France

Trying to keep Tiger Beer in business until Lee Odden and others get here

Some friends have been saying for a long while that as I do so much travelling, why don’t I write about that as well as all the tech and media I talk about.

Well, in the first in a series of travel reviews about our recent trip to the fabulous Scottish Isle of Arran, here’s a taster of the couple of hours I spent at the Whiting Bay Golf Course on the south east of the island.

At 20 miles long and 10 miles wide, you wouldn’t have expected to find SEVEN golf courses on Arran. But as the ferry trundles towards it from Ardrossan, you can’t help but see the adverts talking about the fabulous views and hospitality that awaits all ages and proficiencies of the great game of golf.

Last Sunday, I took the opportunity to let my wife – Ashley – do a spot of reading on the balcony of our lovely B&B – Ellangowan House – while I trotted off to thwack 9 holes for the bargain “after 4pm” price of £10!

I had rung up earlier to book a tee. I asked if they hired out clubs and was told, “We can give you a set for free but they aren’t very good!”

Replying that neither was my golf, I duly turned up at the allotted hour.

The lady behind the bar was very helpful in showing me a 10 hole route that would get me back to the clubhouse in time for a pint of Arran Ale before she clocked off for the evening.

So off I went.

Now I’m no Monty, but I managed to keep in single figures for all the holes which are mostly par 3s and 4s.

One hole called “The Plateau” was an incredible ride. Just 81 yards, it called for a skied shot “up and over” with very little room for error.

Suffice to say it got the better of me as I over-egged it a couple of times before landing a few feet away from the pin for an embarrassing 7!

The main wow-factor of this course is not that it’s just so well maintained and while I was there, virtually empty, but that the views are simply stunning.

Click on the above panorama which I made with Windows Live Photo Gallery to see just how beautiful the sight from the top of the course is.

Being on my own with not a soul around, it took me about 80 minutes trudging up and down to finish the recommended ten holes, none of which disappointed.

Back in the clubhouse, I was warned not to let Ashley know it was the highlight of my holiday so far, and settle down to a well earned beer!

I can honestly see a return trip to Arran for a seven courses in seven days adventure.

It’s not often you get such value for money in quality of course and scenery to boot!

Thought I’d start adding one of my fave photos every time I post some content from other blogs I have a hand in.

Today’s is a snap from a game drive at dawn in the Kruger National Park in South Africa last year. We were staying at the Arathusa Game Lodge on a holiday we’ll never forget.

Anyway…………….day dream over!

Microsoft Advertising Blog

Attention Please: Advertising in the Age of Overload

Think Visibility 2010 – Microsoft Advertising Speaking on Social Media and Community

Microsoft Advertising Asia Digital Showcase Video and Online Marketing Resources

UK OFCOM Report Proves Multi-Screen is Marketing Manna

Admira – Bringing the Emotion to Digital Affordably via TV

Microsoft Advertising TV – Episode 1 – Multi-screen Digital Research, Spikes Asia, Cloud Computing

Microsoft adCenter Blog

Yahoo! and Microsoft Search Alliance News: Organic Search Update on the Bing Blog

Digital Image: Looking After Your Online Reputation

Updated Tutorials for adCenter Desktop Beta in the Microsoft adExcellence Classroom

SES San Francisco: All Customers Are Not Created Equal

SES San Francisco: Making the Leap From Search to Display

I’ve been a very bad person and not written for Media Week for a while so promise to get back on it next week after our long weekend in the Isle of Arran.

Beautiful video from our Microsoft Advertising team in Asia showcasing all the creative digital goodness they’ve been spreading around the net over the last few months.

I’m off down there soon to learn more about the teams and the region, so more on that soon.

Just written a post with all their online collateral on: Microsoft Advertising Asia Digital Showcase Video and Online Marketing Resources

The video is also on our Microsoft Advertising YouTube Channel

Let me know what you think!

Via the TED website, this quite long – 28 minute – presentation is a very entertaining look at how games are starting to become part and parcel of our digital lives.

Jesse is quite hilarious in his delivery, but the serious point is how these games have huge potential for marketers and brands.

Pretty awesome demo of a new ideas on how we input data via a keyboard.

The idea is to try and find new and dynamic ways of interacting with computers using touch.

The team is investigating whether this kind of work can help increase productivity.

If you’re short on time, forward to 5.20 for an amazing intuitive use of Outlook and Communicator which minimises interruption of your workflow.

Check out their blog post: How will input devices evolve to help information workers?

Not bad eh?