September 2010
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Apple TV and iOS →
Some support to my iOS/Apple TV post. Might not get apps on your TV at launch, but it looks like apps on your TV could be part of a future Apple TV software update. Cool.
Pretty Loaded →
If I have wait through yet another Flash loader, my head’s going to EXPLODE. At least some of these are ALMOST tolerable.
August 2010
2 posts
This is helping Chrome →
People around me are asking IT to install Chrome. I wonder why? It’s pretty cool how a browser experiment by an indie Canadian rock band is going to help boost Chrome’s usage.
Apple TV with iOS? Now that's a game changer.
The iPad is a pretty cool device, people love them. That said, I hear so many people that it isn’t really the game changer they thought it would be. They say that because the iPad doesn’t really give us anything we couldn’t do before on a laptop or a smartphone. The iPad just gave us a new form actor. Then it was iOS4, the next gen iPhone/iPad OS which brings us a bunch of much...
July 2010
1 post
Google Easter Eggs →
Gotta love a company with a sense of humour… even if it is geek humour. :)
June 2010
3 posts
A tablet for business running Android. You go... →
http://office.live.com →
In it’s continued tradition of following (and not innovating), Microsoft releases Office Live via SkyDrive. Word/Excel/PPT/OneNote files can be created and edited online. Having played around with it a little, it seems GOOG might have a little competition for Google Apps. Looking forward to seeing how this plays out.
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http://blog.echoenduring.com/2010/05/28/down-to-the... →
This blog post articulates the much needed attitude change with cross browser design issues. A website is not paper. The design should stand on it’s own in each browser. Now we just need to convince the clients.
April 2010
8 posts
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Innovation is sexy.
But innovation isn’t an idea. True innovation is found through people and process. Although people can certainly be sexy, process isn’t known as the sexiest thing going. Ideas can come from innovation, but it doesn’t work the other way around. Ideas are just that, ideas. Lets focus a little less on ideas and focus more on the people we work with and the processes we use.
Facebook gets open →
Looks like they’re shelving Facebook Connect and opting for OAuth. A good move, makes sense in light of them putting Open Graph in the spot light. Open Graph is an important stepping stone for the systems on the Internet understanding your behavior. It’ll give context to a lot of the data out there, and it can help validate that data too. By tapping into your social graph, systems (and...
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Everyone in our education systems needs to see... →
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Have you seen your site on Mobile lately?
Is there anything more annoying than visiting a website on your phone and seeing that “you need Flash” message? Why do brands and companies choose to cut out the mobile market by making Flash-only sites?? Makes me nuts. One day, most of the mobile devices will play Flash (maybe not so much for iPhone/iPad), but until that day, show that you care about the people going to your website...
Are you a startup? Focus on 1) collecting user behavior, 2) behavior analysis 3) link behavior to ROI. Don’t try to change behavior. Learn your target’s behavior and give them what they need when they need it.
Steve Jobs has some big cojones! →
Yeah, iPhone OS4 has some much needed new features. But the new license agreement that goes with it cuts Flash right out of the OS. This article is spot on. The users don’t care about dev gripes, they’ll keep buying and using the iPhone. And the devs will have to stick to the frankenlanguage objective-C to make the apps the people crave.
QR Code Revival? →
Google’s been using QR codes for their Favourite Places and some brands have been toying around with QR codes too. But if Facebook integrates QR codes into their next gen mobile app, QR codes might actually get some traction here in North America. And using them for checking in to a location is an OK idea, although GPS based checkins are a little easier. That said, QR checkins will work on...
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Locative coupon notifications on the iPhone
With the release of OS4 for iPhone, we can write apps that geo-locate in the background while someone’s walking around town. If they walk by a store they were in last week, the phone could vibrate to notify them that there’s a sale on HDTVs. Tie that to behavioral data and you got very relevant advertising, no doubt Apple’s plan with iAds.
March 2010
2 posts
Targeting your emotions →
Using localized keywords, Facebook has been mining status updates to calculate the “Gross National Happiness Index” of the US, Canada, the UK and Australia. Using this data, Facebook could target ads based on our collective moods - and possibly your personal mood trends.
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You Are the Message
Marshall McLuhan coined the phrase “the medium is the message.” He argued (among many things) that the various media are extensions of, well, us – our human mind, body and senses. We’re not too far off from a time when media no longer needs to extend us… we will be the medium. If the medium is the message, and we are the medium, then that means we are the message. YOU are the new medium baby; YOU...