Monday night during our Passover Seder meal, discussion turned to social networks and what several of us at the table were doing online. There was some excitement (from a friend who just started twittering), some guilt (from a friend who thought it would help her business, but felt it was too much work), some denial [...]
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Loading ...The following is my post last week on the Jack360 blog: Last week I was at South by Southwest interactive with a few colleagues from Jack Morton to listen and learn about what’s new in interactive, what people are thinking about and generally absorb the experience of having tens of thousands of developers, designers, writers, [...]
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...The SXSW keynote interview of Twitter’s Evan Williams by Umair Haque may have been a bore, but it did highlight some interesting aspects of what Twitter is and how it is used. Twitter is an interesting application precisely because it is not one. Rather than setting up how to use the service, Twitter has watched [...]
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Early in his career, Hyman Bloom was known as one of the “bad boys of Boston.” A contemporary of Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning who called him “the first abstract artist in America,” he was one of 18 artists from around the country chosen for MOMAs prestigious 1942 exhibit, one of only seven artists [...]
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Viigo, developers of my favorite news reader application for BlackBerry, announced today that Viigo has become a part of RIM. In a press release on their website they announced that Our team has joined RIM’s global organization and will continue to bring our expertise in BlackBerry® application development and real-time content delivery to the BlackBerry [...]
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Earlier this month I asked whether I should change my Twitter avatar because I’d unconsciously created multiple icons for myself, a little yellow Ganesh that stuck out nicely in a tweet stream, and my glasses on a blue background that you see here on my blog. The poll results were inconclusive. While keeping the ganesh [...]
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Yesterday Amazon.com sent me an email that I might be interested in a reissue of Norah Jones’ album Come Away With Me: Green Box (Eco). Now I don’t know what they mean by a green box. Maybe it’s just the color green. Maybe it’s recycled. But clearly they are trying to cache in on the [...]
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...I’ve written a lot about the lack of a LinkedIn application for the BlackBerry and specifically LinkedIn’s missed deadline for releasing the application. I mean I’ve written a lot. Maybe I’m obsessed. Anyway it’s reached a state in the BlackBerry community that people are taking things into their own hands. Jason Remillard (who is not [...]
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Today is Ada Lovelace Day, the day to celebrate the contributions of women toward technology and named in the honor of Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace who wrote the first computer program, a method for calculating Bernoulli numbers using Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine. I knew who Ada Lovelace was, but had never seen her [...]
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...In some of my posts last week about my South by Southwest schedule I hinted at an attendance strategy, but never really explained it in detail. This was in part because I assumed that it was how things worked and wasn’t that unique an idea (which is correct). But now that SXSW is over I [...]
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