Archive for January 2010
A look at the future of iMagazines (via the GQ iphone app)
I’m actually not even sure if “iMagazine” is a word, but I couldn’t think of anything better to describe what is happening with magazines going digital/mobile. GQ is one of the first magazines to do a decent job at creating an iPhone app for their issues, so I decided to buy it (pricey at $2.99)…
Read MoreBlippy…yes its insane but it might just be the future
You know how when you go shopping and you buy something and you, like me, often think to yourself, “Gee, I wish there was a way I could make this purchase public, showing everyone what I bought, where I bought it, how much I bought it for and when I bought it.” Oh I know…
Read MoreThe 7 Stages of Social Denial
I love introducing new social technology to people and watching them go through the 5 stages of social denial. They usually look something like this: Stage 1: The “Aw Hell No” Stage (today this would be things like Blippy — blog post coming about this btw) “That’s so lame, no one will use it” or …
Read MoreI heart the way Google defines social
In an article on GigaOm, David Glazer (link to, what else, Glazer’s google profile page) says that Google defines social as, “Who I am, who do I know, what do I do.” He also says that, “Everything is better when it knows who I am.” As simple as these statements are, I couldn’t agree more. …
Read MoreGoogle Squared – not just a silly name
If you think about it, search is still at a very early stage of development. It really hasn’t evolved much since it was first made popular by Yahoo a long while back. Sure, Google has made it faster to get results and they have a nice clean interface, oh and they figured out that whole…
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