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  1. RT @gcolony on the importance of the Interactive Marketer and her relationship with the Always Addressable Customer bit.ly/KIHtji
  2. @joeparts Glad to know that I'm not the only one!
  3. Panel: "bbc must stop thinking of internet as plumbing to get content to people and start designing products with internet in mind." #DS12
  4. @ant_mull magpie is right! I have some good ones for the digital + physical world...
  5. Cool pic of data oil quote. #DS12 yfrog.com/nzgjuzhj
  6. @JackWebbHeller Not yet, but will be sure to let you know if I do! #DS12
  7. Why do column-oriented databases perform better than row-oriented? Can someone explain to me in 140 characters or less? :-) #DS12
  8. @james_mcdavid hi james ;-)
  9. Unruly Media - a fitting name for a company wrestling with Big Data! #DS12
  10. Solution: my tablet becomes my inflight entertainment and service system. Sign me up! #DS12
  11. Takes 2 years to intoduce new in-flight entertainment techs into airplanes. Now that's an innovation challenge to overcome! #DS12
  12. Moleskine notebooks still cool amongst all the smart phones and ipads. #DS12
  13. Ha! Ibm speaker is presenting a self-described "simple" slide that is illegible. Is that 5 point font? #DS12
  14. @jastilley phew- I thought it was just me. ;-) hi!
  15. Awesome talk: greg williams @ wired on future of storytelling. #DS12
  16. Dreamlayer: app which grafts Old London photos on top of modern london. Very cool! #DS12
  17. Back to the future: tablets drive more reading of long-form content. #DS12
  18. How tech affects storytelling? I think speakers feature more quotes so that people will tweet them. #DS12
  19. Data is the new oil. Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn #DS12
  20. Am shocked by how few speakers include their twitter handle and digital shoreditch hashtag #DS12