Individual Choice Doesn’t Take Away Collective Pleasure

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010 By Mark Pack

The choice of music while we work in one of the floors of the Engine Building is a curious one.

The floor is full of tech-savvy people, well used to having their iPods, Spotify accounts and more – all of which deliver personal, individual music choices as and when wanted.

Yet they also…

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Dual Use Of Tv And Internet

Thursday, February 4th, 2010 By Alison Wright

I often watch TV and use my laptop at the same time.  Recent data from Thinkbox tells us that 47% of adults combine the two activities at least once a day, and another 14% at least once a week, thus proving this is now mainstream behaviour rather than simply a desperate attempt to multi-task by the…

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Public By Default

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010 By Tara Davanzati

In January Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, spoke in defence of the site’s new privacy changes. He announced that public sharing and not personal privacy is the new ‘social norm’.

Part of the debate questions why Zuckerberg decided to change anything at all; suggesting this was…

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Who Is Winning The Race For Creativity?

Monday, January 18th, 2010 By Jonathan Akwue

I was recently sent the link to this video on YouTube.  If you have a few minutes to spare, I’d recommend that you watch it – although you might want to turn the volume down if you’re at work, as the soundtrack by

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Welcome To The Engine Blog

Thursday, December 10th, 2009 By Debbie Klein

Change is positive, and change is exciting. That is Engine’s ethos.

We’re living in a world where technology is changing faster than markets, markets are changing faster than companies, and consumers are changing faster than the people who run those companies.

The truth is, that most…

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