January 2010
14 posts
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Who is the iPad for? Your Mom
No, that wasn’t meant to be a slam against yo momma, but I do believe that people like your mom (unless your mom happens to be a computer geeks) is EXACTLY who the iPad was made for and its people like her who will buy it by the millions. While the iPad isn’t necessarily for people like me - people who need to create websites using Dreamweaver or create graphics using Photoshop, it is...
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In Praise of the iPad - from Erica Sadun
Erica Sadun of The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) has a great article on some of the great merits of the Apple iPad, and what it means for where society is headed. The article is a follow up to one she posted two years ago in which she said: The computing world is changing. We’re no longer tied to desktops. We move around, we take our computing with us. Holding a computer in the crook of...
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Word of Mouth: Now in Overdrive
Perhaps one of the most important aspects since the rise of social networks is that the power the word of mouth once had has now expotentially grown. Before social networks, one person who went and saw a movie and thought it was awful had the power to turn his immediate family and perhaps his closest friends off to that movie. However, nowdays, that same person can send out a twitter post which is...
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Apple Tablet to Revolutionize Education?
Prior to last week, I like most people who have followed the rumors of the mythical Apple Tablet have heard the whispers of Apple working with book, and more specifically textbook, publishers. Having been someone who has spent hundreds of dollars on college textbooks filled with outdated information and the amazing ability to be nearly worthless as soon as your finish the class, I saw...
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The Pope's Latest Commandment: "Blog"
This week the Pope came out and strongly encouraged the priests of the Roman Catholic Church to begin to actively engage people online. While using e-mail and parishes having websites is all well and good, the Pope realizes that people are spending more and more of their free time on social networks. This realization is what led the leader of 1 billion Catholics to start a youtube channel, a...
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The Power of a Single Tweet
Okay, this might be a funny example, but an example nonetheless of the power of one person posting a picture via Twitter. As the article points out, before Twitter, a picture like this may never have gotten noticed by media outlets and attention drawn where it needs to be drawn. TwitPic of Napping Transit Worker Sparks Media Controversy
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Some Amazing Facebook Statistics
These are taken from Facebook’s Press Release page (link): Company Figures More than 350 million active users 50% of our active users log on to Facebook in any given day More than 35 million users update their status each day More than 55 million status updates posted each day More than 2.5 billion photos uploaded to the site each month More than 3.5 billion pieces of content (web links,...
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Today's Youth - The Connected Generation
Here are some amazing information from a New York Times Article on young people and their connection to the world (gathered from a Kaiser Family Foundation study): The average young American now spends practically every waking minute — except for the time in school — using a smart phone, computer, television or other electronic device, according to a new study from the Kaiser Family Foundation. ...
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Earthquake Survivor Credits iPhone for Saving His...
A lot of people say that there iPhone has saved their life in different occasions when they are trying to catch a movie or reroute around traffic, but Dan Woolley actually means it: his iPhone helped save his life. Using a health app, which for some reason this author didn’t seem to think was notable enough to mention, Dan was able to light up his surroundings in the rubble and diagnose what...
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People Want to Give, Just Make It Easy For Them
On Monday night of this week, a tremendous and disastrous series of earthquakes hit the already poverty-stricken island nation of Haiti. All over the island, buildings collapsed, bringing the already weak government and infrastructure to its knees almost instantaneously. Truly an disaster of epic proportion. It was because of this disaster that the US people, specifically the young and...
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Convergence
The world is becoming more and more connected. Isn’t it time you explored new ways to connect to the world? In the coming posts, we’ll explore some of the more useful and popular ways to reach out and impact others. Stay tuned…
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Cut Out the "Gateway Geek"!
For the longest time if you wanted anything communicated or presented to the outside world, you had to go through your resident technology “genius”. A process that was often expensive, annoying, time consuming, and intimidating. The “gateway geek” was in control of your communication and your image to the outside world (anyone who didn’t show up to hear you speak from the pulpit or who you didn’t...
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Let Me Google That For You...
Pretty much on a daily basis I get questions that befuddle my mind as to why I am being asked them in the first place. Questions range from where can I find sports scores or how do I sign up for facebook or what’s the difference between a wireless phone and a cell phone (seriously, that last question almost made my head explode). Its as though people think that my last name is pronounced...
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Avatar and the Future of Movies
Few movies have really impacted me to the point that I couldn’t shake them from my thoughts. Leading up to Jurassic Park, I remember my excitement after seeing the trailers with the water puddles shaking and it almost felt like my seat was shaking with the bass pumping my seat. And when I finally saw the movie, it stuck with me. This was the first time I had seen dinosaurs, which I was very...