Shopping is Fun in Japan!

October 23, 2011 by Leave a Comment

Fashion Show with Google from Robbin Waldemar on Vimeo.

Tokyo, Japan  - We have been thinking about youth cultures around the world a lot lately and what their on-line shopping habits are.   (Japan in particular, mainly because we are jonesing for all things Japanese at the moment.)   Shopping in Japan is like nothing you have ever experienced so I was really curious how e-commerce is translating there and how they were going to take a self- absorbed activity and turn it into something social – because in Japan the social aspect of shopping is even more important than the actual buying.  The team at Wieden+Kennedy Tokyo did a brilliant job at showing us that in this Google Japan commercial.

Makes me want to have a Net-A-Porter shopping party!

 

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Money Never Sleeps

February 6, 2011 by Leave a Comment

Gordon Gekko

Yale University If you want to brush up on all those economic lessons you slept through in college check out the Open Yale Courses -Economics 252 taught by Robert Shiller, economist, author and a forecaster of sorts. The on-line course is a look at finance in all its glory, “history, strengths and imperfections” and a glimpse into the future. Shiller was one of the wise men that predicted the dot com crash as well as the housing crisis. Author of NY best seller Irrational Exuberance, we want to hear everything he has to say, maybe we can finally understand how to make our millions!

Source: Open Yale Courses

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