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 ...
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 ...
Texas Stadium – Battle of the Media Titans
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009 Posted in Behind The Scenes, Digital & Online Technology, Media Matters | No Comments »I’m not a big Dallas Cowboys fan. But having shot a video with Hall-of-Famer Terry Bradshaw on the old Texas Stadium field, I agree the Cowboys needed a home. With it’s 100,000 person capacity, its a monument to how important ...
Bing Bang Theory of Search Engine Optimization
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009 Posted in Digital & Online Technology, Marketing & PR Trends, Media Matters | 2 Comments »Some SEO “experts” are saying it is too early to worry about search engine optimization for Microsoft’s recently launched search engine, Bing. However, that wait and see attitude may be a mistake and a lost opportunity. [caption id="attachment_1078" align="alignleft" width="302" caption="Bing.com"][/caption] In ...
Let Your Fingers Do The Walking
Thursday, June 4th, 2009 Posted in Digital & Online Technology, Marketing & PR Trends, Media Matters | No Comments »We are about to see touch-screen technology invade the desktop computer world. That’s the prediction of some of the biggest players in the industry, including one of our client’s Intel. While this technology has been used successfully in kiosk applications ...
The Little Screen Gets Bigger
Thursday, May 28th, 2009 Posted in Media Matters | No Comments »Americans continue to shift their video viewing habits in record numbers. New data from Nielsen report more than a 50% jump in viewer watching video on a mobile phone versus a year ago. Watching videos on a computer from the ...
Video is Changing the Face of the Internet: Montréal en Deux Minutes
Thursday, May 7th, 2009 Posted in Behind The Scenes, Digital & Online Technology, Marketing & PR Trends, Media Matters | No Comments »The explosion of video on the web is taking a more central role in web development than simply added an embedded video player with a YouTube Clip. It’s hard to imagine creating a new, dynamic consumer-oriented site that doesn’t involve ...
Interactive Obama Photo Mosiac
Monday, April 20th, 2009 Posted in Digital & Online Technology, Media Matters | No Comments »President Obama’s inauguration day was captured in an innovative interactive photo mosaic using thousands of user-submitted images by the Washington Post. Zoom in to see all the different perspectives on that day. You can also click and drag the image ...
Really Local News
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009 Posted in Digital & Online Technology, Media Matters | No Comments »Local news just got more local. Now the site EveryBlock is geo-tagging news in 11 major U.S. cities. So you literally can track and read news stories reported in a one block radius. The site already compiles a whole range ...