Exploring Our Digital World
Our digital future is about enabling better productivity and decisions making to enjoy a better quality of life.
Your body generates millions of data points every day and this video illustrates why and what can be done with these data. Today, heart bear data can be interpreted as normal or abnormal. Other aspects of our health are a lot less clear cut. Sleep patterns for example are difficult to evaluate beyond a very… [Continue Reading]
Generation Y will represent 75% of the work U.S. workforce by 2025. This age group is fascinating to observe in how they relate to the world surrounding them. Particularly when we overlaying onto it what’s happening in their mind. Sometime dark sometimes uplifting, you can’t help but gaze and wonder what the world might be like once they really… [Continue Reading]
The “internet of things”, the sweeping tech revolution we are living, is as scary to many as it is exciting to some. This revolution may even have in store, dreams come true. For baby boomers they are dreams from past times, for the Gen X and Millenials amongst us they are only recounted. Either way… [Continue Reading]
Coding is a superpower. That’s how Drew Houston aka @drewhouston, creator of DropBox describes coding in this video introducing code.org. Founded by Hadi Partovi aka @hadip, entrepreneur and angel investor. Code.org is a non-profit organization that aims to fight code illiteracy in our schools. Its underpinning belief being that coding, i.e. harnessing technology, is the assurance of a better tomorrow… [Continue Reading]
Some people just can’t reconcile the modern idea of augmented reality and contextual web. I don’t blame them… their reality is different then mine but a remark from my seven year old son the other day, made the two, seemingly nebulous concepts, a whole lot clearer to explain. So I think at least.
As a result, my mission of assisting businesses bridge the gap between the online and offline worlds and to make digital marketing relevant to business objectives, would not be complete without strategic, what to do with the tools, and logistical, how to execute the strategy, capabilities in the mobile space. I have them now ready.
Regardless of what anyone will tell you, mobile is always one part of a larger interconnected eco-system. But it’s getting to be a very large part of most eco-systems. Take a look at the staggering figures in the infographic below and let me know what your experience’s been in the comments section. #Enjoy!
As I was updating my Mac this AM to the new OS X (10.8.2) a slew of new features showed up and 2 caught my eye so far, underscoring the current mobile take over.
It was at that same event I was told I was personally destroying journalism and someone called me a malevolent capitalist. I kinda liked the malevolent thing, though it’s the opposite of what I think. Demotix began precisely because I was interested in actively benevolent business. We come at the world with a very deliberate free speech agenda. And business is helping us spread that agenda globally.
Notwithstanding, I discovered an iOS better integrated with major social networks, emphasizing privacy, unveiling new switches to turn offline life on and pushing the traditional phone function to the background. I have to wonder though: does such an OS really take a huge technological leap or just the time to both better negotiate integration with those major social networks and hold a few features on the back burner as stocking stuffers. We now know that Apple-Facebook (800 million users at the time) had failed for iOS 5 and the winner turned out to be Twitter (200 million).
Listed by Forbes as a top social media influencers two years in a row, I'm a new media marketing strategist, speaker, coach, biker and a week-end chef. more…