April 2011
2 posts
Apple's rise officially ushers in "appliance"...
Apple’s incredible run has made a clear and compelling case for what we can now call the “Appliance Era” of personal computing. From laptops to mobile phones, people are making it clear than simplicity and aesthetics can trump raw features and performance, and the financial performance indicates as much. The fact that an Apple device can literally span multiple content ecosystem...
Cisco's Flip flip makes sense
I’m sure I’m not the only one who scratched their head back when Cisco announced their acquisition of Pure Digital Technologies (makers of the Flip) back in May of 2009. While the product seemed nifty enough at the time, it was clearly outside of Cisco’s comfort zone organizationally.
In the time since that acquisition, video recording even HD-quality video has gone from a...
February 2011
4 posts
Gmail Failure Brings to Light Broader Cloud...
The fact that many of us already live in and depend on cloud services isn’t news, but do require more careful consideration and planning, as well as continued adherence to general computing best practices. While this is harder to do in the era of instant access web services for virtually every need, it’s this lack of friction that eliminates the need for more foresight and...
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Another Reason WP7 Made Sense for Nokia - Instant...
One thing Microsoft delivers, that Google hasn’t yet done successfully, is an established microeconomy, which they delivers via their existing Points platform. Sure, those that haven’t played Xbox or owned a Zune may not realize it, but Microsoft baked a payment system into it’s ecosystem a long time ago. It’s carrier independent, like Apple’s, and would open up all...
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Please Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood...
How Not Understanding Nokia’s Vision May Impact the Developing World
Nokia’s historical approach to platform evolution and innovation is based on a long term vision and strategy, which clearly doesn’t resonate in the first world, but makes complete sense in and for the developing world. The key difference is timescale; Nokia innovates at the pace of a telephone network or...
App Store Levels the Playing Field
The Mac App Store Opens Software Race Wide Open for Smaller Players
With my new MacBook Air 11 (1.6Ghz, 4GB Ram, 128MB SSD), I was extremely hesitant to deploy my typical creative suite of tools. While the Air is extremely snappy on a day to day basis for most applications, I just didn’t want to deploy the full app install until I was sure I needed it on my mobile machine; my creative suite...
January 2011
1 post
Challenges to Monetizing Android Apps
Link to Forbes Article
Apple’s greatest success isn’t in creating the micro-economy infrastructure; it’s user behavior that they’ve changed, creating an entire community of individuals that value, and pay for, the convenience of access to content, which made the app payment options a simple extension of it. So, while the reduced friction of in-app payments and carrier...
July 2009
3 posts
Interesting but not surprising - http://ping.fm/dNpaH
Catalyst Group study - Bing vs. Google performance - http://ping.fm/LpLQi
Great Bing vs. Google piece - http://ping.fm/lKQWs
June 2009
3 posts
Neat - http://ping.fm/nwuSJ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpWM0FNPZSs&feature=player_embedded
Looking for Senior Interface Developers, Web QA team members, and Tech Leads…
May 2009
4 posts
Soon to be seen at E3 - http://www.riiflex.com/ - order one today!
Game changer - http://ping.fm/mW4Zn
Microsoft’s Home of the Future…. http://ping.fm/23BDi
hear hear - http://ping.fm/Dv0oc
April 2009
10 posts
Great press on the Land Rover Twitter campaign - http://ping.fm/DxnhJ
Sun. Oracle. 1995? News. Now? Snooze..
http://ping.fm/SFnM2
yet another 18 hour day….
Concrete5 rocks - http://ping.fm/kZ4xP
#LRNY New 2010 Land Rover images online @ http://ping.fm/PB7mf
New MY10 Land Rover Reveal! http://ping.fm/vzd5H
#LRNY
Unraveling the mysteries of temperamental CDNs….
Unraveling the mysteries of temperamental CDNs….
I’ve got to make my way to the NY Auto Show at some point…
November 2008
19 posts
Happy Turkey Day!
hello
Thought pile on the rabbit? →
Interesting how the gap between Apache and IIS is... →
Ideal UX Team Makeup: Specialists, Generalists, or... →
So, which are you?
No matter how many times I said it... No one... →
The iPhone Dev Kit is the best put together program of its kind ever.
Google shutting down virtual world ‘Lively’ - CNET News
URL: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-10103412-52.html
Search giant’s virtual world project, which launched over the summer but never really got off the ground, will shut down at year’s end.
I think the whole concept of immersive virtual words with current generation input and display technology is horribly...
The top widgets by downloads @ Widgetbox... →
Not what I expected…
How Twittering Critics Brought Down Motrin Mom... →
Great, I needed another case study…
Wayzon.com →
Finally launched- view the press release here on Marketwatch.
How to kill a potential relationship
Citizen bank, you had a chance - you’re open, its sunday, and giving me a role of quarters wouldn’t have killed you. But you told me you only had enough for your customers. So now, I assure you, I will never be one.
attik.com →
Portfolio site that manages to be Flash-y (pun intended) with non-conventional but understandable and, most importantly, consistent navigation and orientation elements.
Starting on News (Latest) is a nice idea too… “home” is so tired :-) ….
Working in nyc...
A typical lunch - 1. A mob of protestors in from of a chinese consulate demanding independence for taiwan 2. Bloody tourists dead stopping in front of me to snap photos while I’m dashing 3. Discovering something new and incredibly interesting completely by accident - an ad, overhearing something, a storefront display Who has time to eat?
olhernandez.com →
My relatively new but not necessarily much improved personal portfolio site…
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Live Streaming Puppies! →
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New Bamboo: Contemporary Japanese Masters @ Japan... →
“My ADD trumps my OCD”
– Ben Elgart
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Online Government Done Right... →
August 2008
1 post
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Social Networking Evolved...
One important point I think is to look at social networking not as a single target or market any longer; social networking properties are evolving into differing although occasionally overlapping categories that can be looked at independently as well: * Traditional Social Networks/Walled Gardens- FaceBook, LinkedIn, and to some degree now MySpace, have focused on establishing online relationships...