Tech

Why I won’t buy an iPhone

Posted by dwalker on March 19, 2008 at 9:21 am

Apple’s iPhone is a pretty sweet piece of tech. Add in the support for Exchange (meaning it will soon push email at you like a Blackberry) the recently released Software Development Kit (which means that hundreds of cool new applications will run on it, without having to hack it) and you have a laptop-in-a-handset that [...]

Interruption Vs. Engagement

Posted by dwalker on January 14, 2008 at 1:10 pm

Interesting article in Emarketer on three hidden 2008 trends. While I wouldn’t exactly call these three trends “hidden” they are not easily supported with numbers (which is eMarketer’s raison d’etre).
1. Increased media fragmentation – important, but The Long Tail opened and closed the book on that as a trend.
2. Internet as central hub for marketing [...]

If everyday purchases had Terms of Service

Posted by dwalker on January 11, 2008 at 3:28 pm

Garbage Terms of Service, ULAs and other forms of nonsense legal documentation drive me nuts. By virtue of being in the web business if I had to read and understand every ULA that I “agreed to” I could never get any work done.
I firmly believe that it is the responsibility of any web or software [...]

The Eight Stages of Social Media Acceptance

Posted by dwalker on December 10, 2007 at 11:46 am

I was reading a post by Shel Israel where he made the following off-hand comment:
“Over the past two years the business community has moved through the phases of denial, dismissal, contempt and hostility regarding social media. Now they are beginning to embrace them. “
While I agreed in general with his comment, it felt like a [...]

Google locks up known universe

Posted by dwalker on August 22, 2007 at 3:41 pm

Warning: Severely stilted dialogue in above video
Astronomy/Planetarium software allows astronomy buffs to spend cloudy, freezing or just plain lazy nights inside while geeking out with titles like Starry Night Pro or The Sky. For those interested in casual to serious astronomy these tools are great for everything from planning an evening with your telescope, controlling [...]