Information Technology Strategy: Class 8 – Mobile
Last night we started covering the mobile landscape. My goal was to cover the basics but we quickly got into the rock-n-roll. First, let’s talk about off-deck vs. on-deck. In a nutshell, on-deck is the AOL experience for mobile. Think Motorola Razor. The official definition is: A browseable portal of links to content, pre-configured usually by the network operator, and set as the default...
Interactive Twitter-based murals promoting Canada (video)
Awesome example of the collision between the real world and the virtual world by the Canadian Tourism Commission. Queue O Canada!
Just use Google
This post is for all of those businesses whose site search is so bad that you have to leave their site, go to Google, type in your search terms with their business name just to find anything on their site. Search is such an integral part of our online experience . An essential key to usability. To not get search right is dangerous. Categorically, everyone business that’s not using Google...
Information Technology Strategy: Class 7 – Crater!
Information Technology Strategy: Class 5 & 6 – Metrics
Monday and Wednesday, Professor Stephen Haag came in and lectured on Metrics. One of the promises of IT is the ability to know where your business is. The trick is measure what is measurable (as crazy as that sounds), essential to the business and most importantly compare yourself to your competition and not just your internal benchmarks. One of the quotes he showed at the beginning of the...
Hillel Cooperman on Legos! (video)
. . . Hillel knows . . .
Ozzy Longoria on the future of comics
Several weeks ago I walked into Breckenridge Brewery in LoDo for a networking event. It was roughly 4:30 and the place was dead. As I walked up to the counter I saw an amazing piece of hand drawn artwork being worked on by the man behind the counter. It was shocking. Like finding a walrus in the back seat of your car. You just don’t expect it. At all. He was working on a comic book page...
Information Technology Strategy: Class 4 – Facebook will own the universe!
Last night we talked about the monster that is Facebook. Monster you ask? Y E S. Facebook could own the Internet or better yet; become the Internet. But more on that in a little. We started out by watching the Facebook in real life video. This video puts, what is now accepted as online behavior, in an interesting light. It’s also really funny. From there we talked about how Facebook fits...
Exciting things going on at Layar (video)
Layar is most likely going to be the augmented reality browser. Enjoy!