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I’m now 3 days in to a month-long stint at home in London and it’s very nice to be back!

Despite the leg-pulling about me having been “on holiday” for the past few weeks, I think most people understand it’s not all parties and airmiles! 🙂

Waking up in a Westin for me normally means reaching over and switching on the lappy and checking mail at 7am – pretty much doing the same thing last thing at night too.

Certainly not complaining though. I have a great job and get to do awesome things, meet amazing people in incredible places!

So where have I been?

Nick Drew of Search & Display fame at SMX London

Well on Wednesday 5th of November I was at SMX London boarding a plane that night for Tel Aviv to speak at the Rosh Pina Digital Festival – you can check out some photos here and here on our adCenter Facebook Page!

Transport from the festival back to the hotel!

I’d been invited to speak by the awesome Lior Zoref from our Microsoft Israel office.

He has a blog: http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/liorz/default.aspx and although it’s mostly in Hebrew, if you don’t speak the language just watch one of his videos!

The enthusiasm is infectious even if you can’t understand what he’s saying all the time!

Check out video with Robert Scoble! Twitter’s sucked his brain!

His and the team’s hospitality while I was there was very friendly and I’ll definitely be back!

After a few days there it was back to London and then 18 hours later off to PubCon in Las Vegas where the week was a blur of learning, blogging, meeting and the odd beer thrown in for good measure!

One of the updates from our team was the launch of the FB Page and the fact I was live tweeting from: http://twitter.com/adcenterblog – so do become a fan and follow us too! 

A Young lady does a spot of welding at Search Bash!

After a week in Redmond in Seattle to catch up with some of the guys I’m back now till 18th December when I fly back to spend Christmas in Seattle with Ashley’s family!

Helluva trip but got a lot done although…………..I still have a lot to do…………..

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Ciaran Norris just demoed the above video at SMX London – it’s the follow up to the Transport For London basketball vid which I got first time!

This one is a LOT harder believe me!

Shame he’s not put it up on MSN Video!

Heard of it? No nor had I!
This guy was asked by NASA to record this video………….very interesting stuff!

This is the Windows 95 TV Ad that ran all those years ago – quite different from last week’s I’m A PC Ads

It’s a lot more “in-yer-face-does-exactly-what-it-says-on-the-tin” type stuff but you can’t beat a bit of Jagger to get the blood pumping and the imagination racing.

That was 10 years ago though, and I reckon we’ve moved on and are more sophisticated in our message expectations.

There’s more device choice in the market place and more of a variety in HOW we communicate and connect.

Some commenters in the blogosphere have said they like it that the new commercials are not aggressive and finger-pointing in nature.

Others like the fact that they don’t exude an elitist attitude.

Personally I like them because they show real people, in real environments, doing real things.

How refreshing!?

Thanks to Microsoft I’ve not worn a suit in THREE years!

I’m watching as I upload these and laughing my head off!

The final line of this one is what I’ve felt like saying to soooo many people soooo many times – now I can! 🙂

I may just grow a beard now – what a line! 🙂

I’d say the new ads Part 1 and Part 2 from Microsoft are working from the comments on TechCrunch.

Last week I clamoured for patience and the debate rages on!

One things for sure – the ads are being talked about – if they’d just rolled out some “Windows does blah blah blah!” copy, how impressed would have we been with that?

Advertising is getting more sophisticated – let’s embrace it!