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• January 2010 (2)

  View Source | Kindle: So Now How Can I Judge People and Impress Them Via Books?

  Posted by mhudson | January 27, 7:10 am

  Reading Traci’s post on the Kindle, a gadget that I have never even thought about buying, despite being an avid reader and a total tech geek, made me ponder: Why have I never considered the Kindle?
  The real answer is much for in the vein of… well… vanity.
  Shelf EnvyI have already switched to storing most of [...]

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  View Source | What A Girl Wants

  Posted by ssautter | January 26, 6:07 am

  image credit: valerierenee 
  Top Five Things I Wish Of My Kindle
  When I got my first iPod six years ago, it completely changed the way I purchased and listened to music. So, naturally, I had the same hopes for my recently acquired Kindle reader and how I would soon be consuming books. Unfortunately, the Kindle has [...]

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• February 2010 (4)

  View Source | Four Reasons to Use Google Buzz

  Posted by ssautter | February 16, 5:00 am

  So I have gotten a chance to start playing with Google Buzz. It has a nice “low bar, high ceiling” design.  Your average American who is used to posting or reading status updates on Twitter or Facebook will find it familiar (very different the entirely weird GoogleWave). On the other end of the spectrum, [...]

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  View Source | The Healthcare Industry Has Come a Long Way

  Posted by ssautter | February 10, 5:00 am

  A few years ago, my father passed away.  Soon after, my mother became chronically ill.  As an only child, I was suddenly faced with having to gather information on a variety of health related topics I knew nothing about:  the symptoms of a stroke, Medicare, guardianships/conservatorships, traveling with a loved one in a wheelchair,  selecting [...]

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  View Source | Campaigns Die, But Platforms Live and Grow

  Posted by ssautter | February 9, 5:00 am

  image credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/beauteous/
  Consumers Are Choosing LifeIn advertising, campaigns – series of messages that share a single idea and theme – have for decades been the central concept for forming promotional activities.
  The advertising industry has been rooted in the idea of the campaign – that is what agencies, by and large, do. And campaigns come and [...]

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  View Source | So Real It's Confusing

  Posted by ssautter | February 3, 5:59 am

  I’m not much of a User Interface geek (that is, I enjoy a pointless but entertaining way of getting around a site as much as anyone), but as a web designer I’m always interested on how to convey maximum amounts of information/direction to users as simply and cleanly as possible.
  So I thought this was [...]

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• March 2010 (4)

  View Source | The Future of Gaming

  Posted by ssautter | March 15, 5:06 am

  I stopped by the 2010 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco last week and saw some interesting things from the expo hall. Here are some of the highlights: 3-D GamingThis was being demonstrated by numerous companies including Intel, Sony and Nvidia. I tried it out and it definitely seemed interesting, but I wasn’t blown away yet. [...]

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  View Source | Foursquare, You Can Stalk Me If You Buy Me A Drink!

  Posted by mstrickl | March 12, 6:08 am

  image credit:MariSheibley [Flickr]
  It’s been a great year for Foursquare, the location-based social network / real world game for your mobile. They are celebrating their first birthday this week, a year after they announced their existence at SXSW, with some fairly impressive stats for a start-up:

  Over 500,000 users
  Over 1,000,000 badges have been awarded
  Over 1.4 million venues [...]

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  View Source | The two new entrants: the iPad and WP7S

  Posted by kojanen | March 10, 6:40 am

  At the end of January, Apple announced another highly anticipated new device, while its rival in Redmond, Microsoft, has come out with a new version of its mobile UI. Named Windows Phone 7 Series, it’s an interesting new take on a mobile UI, and while it’s officially planned for release only at the end of [...]

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  View Source | Read This and Get 50 Points

  Posted by ssautter | March 1, 5:45 am

  Life Beyond FacebookCarnegie-Mellon professor and game developer, Jesse Schell, offers an extremely insightful and thoughtful perspective on how Facebook and “reality-based” social platforms are going to affect our lives as consumers and marketers.
  His conclusion, everything we do will be part of a game wherein we earn points toward rewards (social, virtual and real). Brush [...]

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• April 2010 (5)

  View Source | Augmented reality reminds people of street violence

  Posted by kojanen | April 30, 7:20 am

  News of the poor homeless hero who, after helping a woman being attacked, was stabbed and left to die on the streets of New York City have probably reached every corner of the world by now. But it’s not only in New York that passersby sometimes ignore what they see, and keep walking. In the [...]

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  View Source | Goldman Sachs Down, Twitter Up in Pre-Noon Trading

  Posted by Mike Hudson | April 16, 10:54 am

  Source: Marketwatch.com
  The stock market underwent a massive cultural shift back in the 1990s and early 2000s as electronic trading swept through the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ. The individual now had a chance to buy stocks from home. Heck, now you can manage your millions from an iPhone.
  Still, the full-time investment professionals get [...]

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  View Source | Much More Than a Giant iPhone

  Posted by mstrickl | April 13, 9:07 am

  Part of the fun of working at a digital agency is that if you are ever interested some new hot technology item, there is bound to be at least one person (or two) who has already bought it and is willing to tell you all about how they like it. I recently sat down with [...]

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  View Source | Native App or In-Browser Website: Which Is Right For Your Brand?

  Posted by mstrickl | April 6, 5:23 am

  Publishers who distribute content in digital formats have been conditioned to anticipate the launch of new Apple devices with deferential trepidation. We know that The Financial Times, The WSJ, Wired and doubtless many more publishers are looking for ways to deliver high-fidelity experiences on the iPad or at least to make sure what they’ve [...]

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  View Source | The Practicality of the iPad

  Posted by mstrickl | April 1, 10:41 am

  Now that the “oohs” and the “ahhs” from the early adopter crowd has died down. Now that we can all admit that the mentruation-related jokes have stopped being funny (even if that MadTV skit predicted all this). Finally we can bring up the first question we SHOULD have asked about the iPad… How the heck [...]

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• May 2010 (5)

  View Source | It's too heavy, lacks Flash and can't multitask: so why are you so jealous?

  Posted by webmaster | May 28, 11:36 am

  flickr photo by cvander
  There are now two kinds of people in the world. Those who own iPads and those who peer over their shoulders – at least just for a few seconds (Denial? There’s an app for that).
  This week, those users and curious over-shoulder readers were stroking the pages of Wired’s first iPad issue. Organics [...]

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  View Source | Apple, Can We Play In Your Playground? We'll Play Nice

  Posted by mstrickl | May 14, 5:08 am

  Much has been said about clause 3.3.1 of the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement, but now that the dust has started to settle it’s worth taking a closer look at the implications. It’s been reproduced many times, but let’s take another look at the wording in question:
  “Applications must be originally written in Objective-C, C, [...]

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  View Source | Top Brands on the iPad: From Cool Hunting to Baby Countdowns

  Posted by mstrickl | May 12, 5:26 am

  Apple’s iPad, selling over a million units after launching just over a month ago, seems like an easy choice for those brands looking to create immersive experiences for users and expand upon the ways they’re already connecting via social and mobile on other platforms.
  Yet, aside from ecommerce retailers and content publishers, there are still only [...]

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  View Source | Around The Office: Thoughts on Steve Job's Thoughts on Flash

  Posted by mstrickl | May 11, 5:42 am

  Last week’s “letter” from Steve Jobs and his thoughts on Flash clearly caused a stir. Not only did it solidify the suspicions that Apple was simply not a fan of the Flash plugin but it also provided a few reasons behind the exclusion.
  With the kindling poised for a massive “flamewar”, a few people at Organic [...]

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  View Source | Who Owns the Comments on a Wheel of Camembert Cheese?

  Posted by mstrickl | May 4, 4:29 am

  image credit: Emmanuel Gadenne [Flickr]
  Officially launched at Austin’s SXSW festival, StickyBits is a new mobile app for the iPhone and for Android that lets you scan any barcode and attach a message or a file to that physical object.
  So, why is it different? Just look at their tagline: “A fun way to attach digital content to [...]

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• June 2010 (1)

  View Source | The indie mentality

  Posted by webmaster | June 10, 11:15 am

  Mortal Kombat Rebirth, a short film/trailer/teaser created by Director Kevin Tancharoen, has received over 2 million hits in 48 hrs. It has easily become the most successfully viral video in recent memory and the response to it has been overwhelmingly positive. For a couple of reasons – the high production values and the fact that [...]

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• September 2010 (2)

  View Source | HTML5 vs Flash

  Posted by Hilton Barbour | September 30, 5:26 pm

  The report of my death was an exaggeration.
  Mark Twain, New York Journal, June 2, 1897

  In April 2010, Steve Jobs published his “Thoughts on Flash” statement ( http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/) and thereby codified Apple’s opposition to support of the Flash player on their mobile operating systems. This act culminated a back-and-forth sally of couched taunts and threats between [...]

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  View Source | A prototype by any other name ...

  Posted by Hilton Barbour | September 30, 3:15 pm

  Given the range of functionality and fidelity represented by different prototyping methods it’s difficult to pinpoint the practices use in digital marketing. But as client goals and user experiences grow more complex it’s nice to have a choice of tools for proposing solutions.
  For a recent technology offsite every member of our team was tasked with [...]

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• December 2010 (0)