Archive for the ‘freshish thinking’ Category
Thursday, August 26th, 2010
With the announcement of Facebook Places, I wanted to share my thoughts. Facebook Places, for those that aren't familiar with it yet, is the latest feature from Facebook that allows you to "check in" at locations using an application on smartphone.
So here's the summary: In my opinion, Facebook Places is ...
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Monday, August 16th, 2010
There was a great article in the July 26th edition of Computerworld - IT Innovation: How to avoid being a one-hit wonder.
There is also a related article - "Innovation: Trendy Topic, Hard to Do" that I had to mention, because the headline really hits home. I think the challenges that ...
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Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
There's been several great articles recently on location-based marketing that I'd like to share.
The first is a blog post from Soical Fresh: 21 Unique Location Examples from Foursquare, Gowalla, Whrrl and MyTown
In the article above are some great examples of how brands, large and small, are utilizing the various location-based ...
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Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
I'm in New York City at TechCrunch Disrupt
TechCrunch and other technology outlets have provided detailed updates, including a live stream and video updates.
My selections from TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield session are:
UJAM: A web-based toolset for generating music based on a theme, highly customizable by the user. They certainly got ...
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Monday, May 24th, 2010
I'm at TechCrunch Disrupt the next couple days. I was able to bundle the event with some other meetings in New York, so it worked out well.
Summary so far: the next wave of innovation is about social, mobile & building relationships through engagement across channels - something that we, ...
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Monday, April 19th, 2010
Monday, April 12th, 2010
Steve Kraske sits down with "Tech-sperts" Dustin Jacobsen, Director of Social Media and Technology at Barkley, and Justin Parlette, Support Systems Administrator at University of Missouri, Kansas City.
They review Apple's newest gadget, the iPad, cover news of iPhone 4.0 OS multitasking capabilities, and location-aware apps.
A few highlights:
iPad: ...
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Monday, April 5th, 2010
As someone that works on mobile and emerging technology projects, I had to pick up one of the latest hyped up Apple products and spend some time getting to know it and write my own review.
For those that aren't familiar with the Apple iPad, it's the latest shiny object from ...
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Tuesday, March 30th, 2010
I've been trying to make it to South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) for several years, but the planets just never aligned.. That is, until this year.
SXSW, for those unfamiliar with the event, is held each Spring in Austin, TX and includes Interactive, Film & Music sessions spread across 1 1/2 ...
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Thursday, January 28th, 2010
So where do I begin?
First, let me explain the image above. It's a web heat map. What's a web heat map, you ask? Wikipedia describes a web heat map as a representation "..used for displaying areas of a Web page most frequently scanned by visitors."
The above heat map from ...
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Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
The blog post below is part of my submission for the American Association of Advertising Agencies (4A's) Transformers Program.
Every few months I select a few emerging trends to dig into. I've discussed geo streams in a previous post and this is a further extension of that idea and many other ...
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