Monthly Archives: August 2010

The Artist, the Geek, and the Business Expert

I was watching this TED video on data visualization, check it out. Then I was noticing on Twitter today that every tenth tweet had a link to an infographic and it got me thinking about a visual challenge I deal … Continue reading

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Facebook Places

My son reminded me today that I had just told him a month ago that it was just a matter of time until Facebook bought Foursquare, or just copied their location based model. It was just too obvious. Facebook with … Continue reading

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The Impact of Social Technologies

In the world I work in we are forever trying to find context to the technology changes we are living in. This has caused me to do some deep thinking on where social media/networking/relevance will end up on the scale … Continue reading

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Location Based Applications and Retail Sales – August 13, 2010

If you have not experimented with applications like FourSquare and Gowalla on your mobile device yet I suggest you load them and become familiar. I suspect that either, or both, of these companies will soon be acquired by much large … Continue reading

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The Death of Books?

I happen to be in a very unique position when it comes to book publishing. I may be one of the only people in the world to be doing three book projects all at once, and all in different publishing … Continue reading

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FaceTime – The Next Killer App

As often happens, the next application that is likely to explode in usage was announced quietly, and will grow through viral user adoption. When Apple rolled out the list of new features on the iPhone 4.0, they handed us an … Continue reading

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The Internet’s Impact on Our Brains

A topic that seems to be getting more press these days is the debate over whether the Internet is making us dumber. There are commenter’s lining up on both sides of the issue and a recent book has stoked the … Continue reading

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