Posted in Uncategorized on May 25th, 2007
Over the last few weeks, I’ve noticed an enormous surge in news articles and blog posts about widgets. The articles range from those curious about widgets to those that hail widgets as the online savior of news services.
Eric Schonfeld of Business 2.0, in his article CBS Goes Widget Crazy reports that CBS is signing deals […]
Posted in Media Delivery on May 10th, 2007
The widget space may be getting crowded (see Michael Arrington’s post on “The Attack of the Advertising Widgets“), but when a series of widgets come out that are actually useful, we get to see just how “cool” widgets can be.
TechCrunch reports that mpire has just launched over 75 widgets that are pointed at ebay and […]
Posted in Business Strategy, Human Factors on May 7th, 2007
Quick… define “Brand.”
Hard, no? Yet unlike other words they have trouble defining, people seem to use the word “brand” constantly in the course of the business day. I hear it all the time from people who obviously don’t know what it means, which frankly drives me pazzo.
An understanding of brands starts with a description of […]
Posted in Human Factors, Media Delivery on May 4th, 2007
Yesterday, I had the opportunity to attend the RIA Summit hosted by our friends at Adobe and Effective UI. I wasn’t sure what to expect, as developer I am not. But as an avid follower of the musings of Ryan Stewart and the app-wonders of Alan Lewis, I felt I had to check-it out.
The main […]
Posted in Random Thoughts on May 4th, 2007
Those of you who have read the history of matchmine will see reference to my brother the genetic engineer. In case you didn’t catch it, the germination for what we’re doing started with a conversation between Mark and I back in 1996. The spark occurred soon after he built his in-car MP3 player […]
Posted in Random Thoughts, Social Networking on May 3rd, 2007
TED is one of the more interesting organizations out there, essentially an organization trying to improve our world through the exchange of ideas among the intellectual elite (and I mean that in a good way.) There are lots of great speakers at this event each year, many of which are now available online (check out […]
