Category#mobile

Her

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No. This is not a post about an ex-girlfriend. And I’m not sure if a spoiler alert is needed. :) So I finally got to see the Spike Jonze movie Her and I have to tell you, they did an amazing job! You start by thinking, “How could anyone fall in love with an OS? That’s stupid!” and when I first saw the commercials, I felt the same way. But I’m here to tell you...

Blackphone = mobile privacy

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A while ago, a friend of mine asked me to help him to create a phone that “lied”. At first I wasn’t exactly sure what he meant.  After we discussed it, I understood that he not only wanted his privacy protected while on a mobile device, he wanted to send the carriers et al, false information. If you were in the #303 the phone would say you were in Montana or Saigon (Needless to...

The evolution of digital content

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Aggregation - Back in the day there was this thing called RSS, which stood for Really Simple Syndication. It was a way of getting a list of all the content that a site created in one easy to read list. Yep. It’s still around. There’s one in the upper right hand corner of this site. Curation – Now there is a amazing tool called Twitter. Twitter allows you to follow specific...

Something that sounds smart but really isn’t

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                  I was recently in a meeting where someone said they were now going to “design for mobile first and then simply expand to larger screens“. This is one of those things that sounds smart but the more you think about it, it’s really foolish. This leads one to believe that the only difference between mobile devices and...