Firstly I found the slideshare presentation on Youth Marketing (at bottom of this post) from the fast forward marketing trend blog. 'Youth is no longer a demographic, it's a mindset'. It's worth a quick view as well as the summary to the Global Habbo Youth Survey, especially on teens and their favourite mobilephones here. Quoting the summary 'Examines the interests, values, attitudes, online habits of a global audience, the survey reveals teens' current media usage, consumption behaviour and brand preferences in order to better understand what compels youth around the world'
Here's a great story about how text messaging is used for flirting in India. It's from New York Times so you might need to quickly sign up for it to access the story but NYT is always full of great stories.
Here's two great pieces on the meshing of TV and the net. First in the Atlantic Monthly and second in the Timesonline.
This is an amazing site full of futuristic skyscaper designs, fascinating what architects are wanting to build. It's a competition and you have to click on '08 Skyscaper competition'
Synchstep from Pokenyc (explanation here) - This is going to be a killer app for the iphone or itouch (and every other phone for sure) and want it now. An app that synchs your music with your walking pace. Greg Elliott, the designer of it, can safely retire.
Here's a great piece on littleminx.tv. It's a division of RSA Films (where I work). They produced five shorts films from their the directors and there's links here to watch all of them - enjoy - Exquisite Corpse
Lastly my tweetcloud - I love twitter apps. Damiano via punkplanning
