Controling Brand: Short URLs
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010 Posted in Digital & Online Technology, Marketing & PR Trends | No Comments »Curtis asked me to write about the "big crunch/big bang" of digital content distribution. I think this is a wonderful topic, but not something I can address at the moment. I would like to do a fair bit of research ...
HTML5 vs. Adobe, This Sunday in 5-D Space
Friday, February 5th, 2010 Posted in Behind The Scenes, Digital & Online Technology, Marketing & PR Trends, Media Matters | 3 Comments »A friend put me on to an HTML5 <canvas> tag demo that looks like Doom and doesn't use anything even resembling flash: http://canvex.lazyilluminati.com/. Clearly you'll need an HTML5-ready browser if you want to play (with) it. It's interesting enough, especially if ...
The iPad: What Will It Mean to Us?
Thursday, January 28th, 2010 Posted in Digital & Online Technology | No Comments »A couple exciting things happened yesterday. Nearly all my attention was focused on the launch of the new First Vehicle Services website. Meanwhile the rest of the world was focused on this. Steve Jobs said that it is "our most ...
CSS Experiments by Román Cortés
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010 Posted in Digital & Online Technology | 2 Comments »Román Cortés' 3D Coke Can... entirely done in CSS I've been following Román Cortés' blog for some time now, as much for some reading en español as for the artistic and development-related content. I think the first post of his I ...
New Study Confirms Mainstream Role for Blogs & Twitter
Thursday, January 21st, 2010 Posted in Digital & Online Technology, Manning News, Marketing & PR Trends, Media Matters | No Comments »A new study validates the concepts that we have been employing to help clients connect with journalists using social media. Check out our post "Reinventing the Online Newsroom" which focuses on a project for the American Bar Association. ...
Multimedia Provides Valuable Resource On Haiti Quake
Thursday, January 14th, 2010 Posted in Digital & Online Technology, Media Matters | No Comments »I have been highly impressed by the use of multimedia during the recent catastrophe in Haiti. News organizations and the public have relied on Twitter, blog posts, photo and video sharing sites for news and images from this earthquake ...
A Response to Avatar
Monday, December 21st, 2009 Posted in Digital & Online Technology | 1 Comment »First let me say that a large part of why this movie was successful to me is that it wasn't easily knowable beforehand. I heard a lot of discussion about the advertising strategy for Avatar—the amount they spent, the choice ...
Email going the way of the Pony Express?
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009 Posted in Behind The Scenes, Digital & Online Technology, Marketing & PR Trends | 1 Comment »It took the Pony Express 10 days to delivery a letter across the country. In 1832 railroads were used to speed mail delivery, followed by airplanes in 1918. All that seems like ancient history compared to e-mail. It has cut ...
Social Media: Video Players
Friday, October 2nd, 2009 Posted in Digital & Online Technology | 1 Comment »Video on the web is not a new phenomenon, nor is the hype around the impact that video will have. But we are now starting to see how video can play a role in social media. As my colleagues Kirk ...
Google Wave
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009 Posted in Digital & Online Technology | No Comments »Google has announced that it will be releasing 100,000 invites to it's new real-time communication platform titled Google Wave. If you haven't heard much about Google Wave, one of Google's engineers sums it up best. Email is the most popular way to ...