Here is a quote I have been preaching in speeches these days, "Content is the new democracy and we the people are insuring that our our voices are heard." This wisdom is from Brian Solis who is an expert on social media. It is important for all of us to [...]
Cloud-based File Storage Last weekend on Twitter, I saw a few tweets where a friend had lost a file, and try as she might, she could not find it on her machine, it was simply gone. There were lots of replies to her about the benefits of Apple's Time Capsule [...]
We hear about the 'Cloud' at every turn lately, but the cloud has been coming for a long time, in many varied ways. The well known players are all household names: Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Salesforce.com, Sun and more; but their ideas are closer than they would like [...]
Our mobile phones are quickly replacing the laptop as the screen of choice for the digerati. More and more can be accomplished on the mobile phone platform that we used to reserve for the laptop with a high-speed connection to the Internet. Today our mobile phones are coming equipped with [...]
I was with a CEO last week in downtown Oklahoma City; we were talking about the perceived technology vacuum here in the middle of the country, and about how wrong that perception is. In fact, there is a vibrant and bustling community of developers, designers, and analysts here. Did you [...]
Twitter is teaming up with the Current television/Internet network to offer a feed of the tomorrow nights debate, with live tweets popping up on the bottom of the screen. Tuesday, October 7th, Senators Obama and McCain will hold another debate live on national television, and you can be a part [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
There are already a lot of iPhones on campuses nationwide, but this time they are being given free to incoming freshmen at Abilene Christian University, in Abilene Texas. Faculty will be given the iPhone and the school will pay for the data plan, while the students will have to pay [...]