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Initial iCloud Thoughts

As expected Apple jumped into the cloud-based music game yesterday when Steve Jobs announced iCloud. While I download iTunes and update my iPad to try out some of the features that are available now, here are a few thoughts on the announcements. It’s about time that there will be iPad synching via wifi. The mere [...]

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The Cloud-Based Music Service Of My Dreams

These are exciting days for cloud-based music services. Amazon launched their Cloud Drive in March. Then Google rolled out the Google Music Beta at their I/O Developer Conference. And of course all signs point to Apple announcing iCloud or some similarly named cloud-based music service soon, perhaps in a couple weeks at its Worldwide Developer’s [...]

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Men Are From iPad, Women Are From Kindle

In the New York Times yesterday there was some interesting data from Forrester Research on men, women and e-readers. Generically speaking, the iPad and other tablets are men’s toys, while the Nook Color and other e-readers are more popular with women. According to data from Forrester Research, 56 percent of tablet owners are male, while [...]

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Review: Blogsy For iPad

Blogsy is a fantastic new blogging app that finally brings WYSIWYG formatting to blogging on the iPad and includes some new takes on functionality to make blogging easier. Blogsy splits their interface in two, Rich and Write, which roughly correspond to the Visual and HTML views in the WordPress interface. The Write side is your [...]

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Mind Your API

It was about 4 years ago that I was hit by Rishad Tobaccowala’s advice to the crowd at OMMA East. “Mind your API“.  Don’t ask me why that one instruction stuck with me more than everything else that he said that afternoon, but it did. For those of you who don’t know what an API [...]

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iPad Bookmarklets

One frustrating thing about the iPad is that the applications are not integrated. On my Android phone once I download the Tumblr app I can share the webpages that I browse, the pictures I take, etc on Tumbler directly from the browser or gallery. On my iPad I have to copy and paste to the [...]

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Review: The New York Times iPad App

Yesterday morning I spent a lovely couple of hours reading The New York Times. To set the scene, it was a crisp fall morning, the dogs were walked, I had a cup of coffee beside me and my iPad was propped comfortably so I could read it and sip at the same time. I’ve done [...]

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Mobile Computing Power And Art

I have to idea if the video below is real and of the 4 guys in the video below are actually playing live with their iPhones or not, but regardless, it’s sure possible that they could. Many of us walk around with more computing power in our pockets than power the space shuttle. Let’s keep [...]

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The Realities of Mobile Advertising

This is a live blog of the FutureM panel The Realities of Mobile Advertising which was held at MIT on Monday October 4, 2010.  The panelists were Stephen Bagdasarian (Hill Holliday), Brenna Hanly (Mobile Catalyst, Mullen), Brett Leary (VP/Dir of Mobile Marketing, DIGITAS), William Nann (Director, National Advertising Sales) and Jon Phenix (VP Sales, Nexage) [...]

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Don’t Expect Much Social Media From Me Today

My BlackBerry died again on Wednesday so while I await a real replacement I’m rocking this beat up BlackBerry 8700.  I tried adding a few apps to help with Social Networking, but the old gal’s not having any of it (and since I’ll be handing her back on Monday I’m not jumping through any hoops [...]

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