Last week there were a ton of articles written on the G1 phone manufactured by HTC and sporting the Google Android mobile platform. Most people roundly agreed that the hardware was nothing special and that the most interesting thing about the G1 is the software. At the same time, there [...]
Why We Need A New Cabinet Position Over Technology I have been wanting to write this article for months so today is the day... As I follow the election campaigning and hear all the issues addressed, I am amazed that once again, we have candidates that seem to only deal [...]
Our computers are shrinking again, even as they become incredibly more powerful. Ultra portable laptops, sometimes called 'netbooks', are sitting on boardroom tables all across America, and smartphones are in the hands of teenagers, the college crowd. and (shudder) even our CEOs. As these devices move from the techno-elite early [...]
Continuing on my theme of what to look for in marketing, let’s take a look at proximity based marketing. The concept is that as you travel through the world, vendors, stores, and consumer products companies will recognize that you are at a specific place and send you various types of [...]
This morning there was a neat new toy in my web arsenal. First let me set the stage for you, you see, I use a lot of Google services; from Gmail, Google Calendar and the Google Documents suite, all the way to Picasa and even Goog411. From that last sentence [...]
Continuing on the advertising track, read this blurb from a Google Blog: We are enabling this functionality by implementing a DoubleClick ad-serving cookie across the Google content network. Using the DoubleClick cookie means that DoubleClick advertisers and publishers don’t have to make any changes on their websites as we continue [...]
I have wanted to write a few news-streams to discuss with you the progress being made in the online advertising market. This is a fascinating area of growth that impacts all of us because it is changing how marketers get to us, and the level of privacy we will have [...]
For months now I have been talking about virtual worlds like Second Life and Entropia Universe, and I always end the discussion by mentioning that it is only a matter of time until Google gets into the act. Last week they announced their first foray into the virtual space with Lively. Although I was [...]
Apple Goes Mobile With the recent announcement by Apple that the .Mac platform is morphing into the new MobileMe system, I think I am going to make a conscious choice to work at home from now on. MobileMe is a push technology that offers your email, calendar, contacts and files [...]
One thing that easy to forget is that we actually have the next version of the Internet in operation at the moment. It is called the Internet2, and is a very clear picture as to where the commodity Internet we all use will go. If you are not aware of the [...]