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Is PR Missing Out on the Mobile Revolution?
PR, as an industry, is not known for being a group of early adopters. Social media has been a bit of an exception. While the entire industry may not have adopted social media early on, many of social media’s early evangelists came from the field of PR. The argument is that there was an obvious [...]
Social Media and Mobile Growth are Exponentially Symbiotic
There are a lot of conversations happening around the need for social media in your company. There are a lot of conversations happening around making your content mobile friendly. Image via Wikipedia To me there are not enough conversations happening around mobile, social media and the impact they will have on your company. It will [...]
Will Apple Finally Have to Embrace Social Media?
Image via CrunchBase As I was flipping through one of my favorite start pages I couldn’t help but notice something. Let’s see if you notice it to: Palm and Apple Squabble Over iTunes Access on the Pre – NYTimes.com Apple’s Rejection of Google Voice Points to Just One Thing Apple bans App Store’s 3rd-most prolific [...]
Training My Own Citizen Journalist
I’ve mentiond before that my Emma has a smartphone (a Palm Centro – it was BOGO when we got my wife the same phone). She doesn’t have a data plan but she download pics and vids to her HP Mini. I never taught her how to use her phone like this. She picked up video [...]
2.0 Thinking
There is a lot of talk out there in the Value of Web 2.0/Social Media companies. Being an EIR at Highway 12 Ventures I’ve had the opportunity to discuss this in great detail with a lot of VC’s who are questioning how many social networks and ad monitized sites can you have? Web 2.0 is [...]
Using SMS to power the smart homes of the future
Image via Wikipedia I had an epiphany on the way home from running errands. (I’m sure I’m not the only one to think of this but I haven’t heard of any application that works this way.) We picked up a take-n-bake pizza and Jen wished we could warm up the oven remotely. One of the [...]
The rise of crappy pics and vids
Now that I have a 3G camera phone I feel this overwhelming urge to do more with pictures and video. As I’ve stated before I personally still prefer text over video for business applications. But there is no denying that video can really enhance certain types of content. Pictures are an obvious fit in online [...]
The New Microtrend: Microwork
Earlier this year Chris Anderson of Long Tail fame wrote a post that’s been sitting in the back of my head for a while. The concept is about what he calls “spare cycles”. “Spare cycles”–the human potential that isn’t tapped by our jobs, which for most of us is a lot of it. People wonder [...]
Twitter Craze Feels Like MySpace Back in the Day
So back in 2003 I heard about this brand new site; MySpace. At the time I owned a skate shop in Las Vegas and all the lurkers we’re obsessing over this MySpace.com. As they explained how it was soooo much better than Friendster, I decided to give it a try. One of the things that [...]
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