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Advertising prepares for the digital future

By On June 29, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Last week at Cannes Lion Festival, some of the world’s top brands and technology partners met to discuss how creativity is changing the advertising world and also to select campaigns that pushed new boundaries aside in their efforts.

According to the recap on Mashable (http://goo.gl/IMo9d), the output of the conference was quite clear: “As [...]

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Nokia N9 looks good!

By On June 27, 2011 · Leave a Comment

I’m a dedicated Apple enthusiast and an iPhone user. With that said, I have to give credit to Nokia for producing what looks like a very compelling smart phone.

Knowing that the N9 is running the allegedly last version of MeeGo before jumping ship to WinMo, this new device is really pretty. Nokia have always [...]

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Indexing the web w Fwix

By On June 10, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Geo-tagging is nothing new to the evolving web, but Fwix is taking it to new places with it’s “hyperlocal places database” stack.

Through a new API they have created and one line of JS, companies/business can geo-tag their pages. The end result is rather compelling from both an end-user perspective and from a social perspective.

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What would you pay to go your own way?

By On May 11, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Was having an interesting conversation with a colleague at work regarding entertainment distribution platforms (music, film, tv) and the growing trend of services providing premium offerings based on choice.

Today came word of HBOgo reaching 1 million downloads in less than a week of availability (

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WordPress, having a CMS website, and decisions.

By On July 23, 2010 · Leave a Comment

As I struggled with my WordPress instance bombing on me the other day, it occurred to me that I was unaware how dependent I had become to having such a tool manage my website. Once I realized the extent of the issue I was having, I even resorted to uploading my old static website [...]

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If I were still a dev, I’d want to ride Google Wave

By On May 29, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Google has dropped yet another bomb on the internet world with a new platform for collaboration called Wave.

It’s a merge of email, IM and social media under one construct with a host of API’s for developers to now leverage those API’s for inclusion into their own sites and for them to also make their [...]

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When I get an iPhone…

By On February 5, 2009 · 2 Comments

I’m getting this app for sure: Pinger.

Although this app like so many others that seem cool for iPhone won’t run in the background while you use another app, check mail, whatever..it sure seems cool. Hopefully Apple is working on simultaneous applications running at the same time.

The app provides a connection layer [...]

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