There is a lot of chatter about calendar being the next native iOS application (much like Mailbox and Taskbox for Mail) that is set to be out replaced by a startup. Just looking at my phone you’ll find: Sunrise Calendar Tempo Smart Calendar Atlas Agenda Tempus Calvetica Fantastical Cue I’m hopeful for Atlas because it [...]
Scott Brinker Follow @chiefmartec provides a must read summary of the 5 meta-trends that underly most modern marketing. The great digital migration of marketing (and business). The convergence of paid, earned, and owned media. Customer experience as the core of marketing. Rise of the creative/marketing technologist. Agile marketing management. The post lays forth a strong [...]
The good folks at Fast Company sourced an interesting visualization from futurist Michell Zappa and the Envisioning Tech crew. Lots of science fiction, but it provides an interesting analysis based on the breaking down of information silos. Follow @envisioningtech “This visualization is an exercise in speculating about which individual technologies are likely to affect the scenario [...]
It has been 2 years since my Kindle arrived (September 2, 2010 to be exact). Sure not exactly an early adopter, it was more than 3 years after the initial launch of the device and part of the product and marketing blitz that allowed Kindle books to outsell print books in Q4 2010. And for the [...]
The team at VisionMobile have updated their Developer Economics 2010 and Beyond research report with an infographic that describes the decisions a mobile develop makes from app design and platform selection to go to market and monetization.
Some rights reserved by Nick, Programmerman Gary Rivlin at Fortune Magazine has some recent articles about Steve Ballmer and Microsoft senior management (The problem with Microsoft… & Why insiders think top management has lost its way). The articles make great fodder given the rise of Apple to be larger than Microsoft in both market capitalization and [...]
My television watching and content acquisition saga continues. Since cancelling my Rogers Cable TV subscription, I’ve found myself consuming content using: Netflix on AppleTV Netflix on Boxee Box Netflix on Wii CityTV app on iPad DVDs on my XBox Shows on Boxee Box (Project Runway on Slice; The Big Bang Theory on CTV; Cougar Town on City) [...]
I’m a huge fan of Google Voice. I’m not alone the team at TechCrunch also seem to be fans. I would really like to use my 416 number with a provider like Google Voice that let’s me keep this as my primary number but forward calls and SMS messages to a device or application I [...]
I started using Netflix and I’m both impressed with the recommendation engine and curious. Amazon does a great job using a combination of items and behaviour to present thing I might like to purchase. I find the Netflix Canada content recommendations good but not quite as good. This could be the difference that my Amazon [...]
I updated my Open Source Icons post earlier to include updated list of icons. The interesting part was this brought up some great mobile design and development resources. With the list of available mobile icons being just the tip of the proverbial iceberg. Speckboy provides an unprecedented list of resources for mobile developers and designers it [...]