The big take-away from the unfortunate story of the ugly portraits of Olympians is that good visual content cannot be acquired by bringing a dozen photographers into a room, and then parading a hundred subjects before their lenses.
A nice piece on Washington Post offers advice from a guy who bet on e-books, and knew he had to win over book lovers.
Here are two interesting tools to help businesses get their marketing into different channels.
The first is bMobilized, which very quickly creates a mobile version of any website. Our site looked a bit crappy in their demo, but once inside the full app there are many customizing options.
The so called, Cloud, what used to be called server side storage, is a great and very important thing. But when so much of the internet goes down at once, we feel good about our decision to always run our apps locally, and never from the cloud.
Nevermind how cool it seems at first, people do not want to wear computer hardware on their bodies. It’s as simple as that. It’s weird, dorky, you look a bit dumb. Like when you wore that bluetooth ear piece around. You know, the one in your fanny pack?
But Google tries a lot of things that don’t succeed. I’m glad they’re trying so hard, but not all of it is all that great, base jumping notwithstanding.
I was excited about WAVE until I actually tried to use it.