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Youth Marketing Presentation and more lovely links

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

 

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Tallest Building in the World?

'The structural engineers at Hyder Consulting have announced that they are planning what will be, by an overwhelming margin, the world's tallest skyscraper, coming in at double the height of the Burj Dubai – or very nearly one vertical mile. The firm has "confirmed that the tower would be located in the Middle East region," we're told, "but would not give any further details." Here's an altered BBC diagram about the world's tallest buildings to give you a sense of what this might mean, size-wise. Note the comparative size of the Empire State Building.' via bldgblog & dvice.

'Standing over 5,000 feet, the proposed MILE tower in Jeddah City Saudi Arabia could someday claim the coveted title of world's tallest building. Although technically we can build as high as we want, other variables prevent skyscrapers from every going this tall. Issues like transport, safety, and evacuation.
Still this is chump change compared to Japan's proposed XSEED below. via electro-plankton

In Boston part 2

Here's the couple of pics from Cambridge Mass...