If you were about to build a house, would you start by putting out an RFP asking for bids on a three-bedroom house? Of course not. The bids would be all over the map. You’d have no idea what the house would look like once it’s built; and the chances of being happy with theRead… Read more »
Back in 1996, Sherry Turkle, a Psychologist at MIT was on the cover of Wired Magazine excited about how the new social and mobile technologies were going to make our lives better by enabling us to learn more about ourselves. Seventeen years later, she’s back; and she’s not happy. In her new book “Alone Together”Read… Read more »
“When all of the stakeholders come together so quickly, you’ve got magic” – this is what happened a few minutes after the Superdome what dark on during the 2013 Super Bowl. Oreo’s Ad agency, working closely with the business developed an ad and sent it out to twitter, resulting in an instantly successful marketing coup.Read… Read more »
When it comes to fixing things around the house, I range between Unconscious and Conscious Incompetence depending on the task, (or the prior evening’s indulgences). Recently, while standing in the checkout line of my local Home Depot, (for the second time that day), I looked at the guy behind me and said “What is itRead… Read more »
Information Concepts is a fixed-price software development shop that has done work for almost every major government agency. Our unique approach uses visualization technology to rapidly create simulations of software that look and act like the real thing, capturing feedback from users – all before a single line of code is written. Read more… CallRead… Read more »
In the old days (say 5-10 years ago), when you migrated from one technology to the next generation, there were only two-to-three possible platforms you were migrating from, so it was easy for developers to test, and ensure a relatively smooth migration process. Now we have a myriad of mobile platforms (iPhone, Android, Windows, BlackBerry,Read… Read more »
One of the benefits that Google features prominently in Google Apps is the ability to share links to documents, as opposed to sharing copies of documents themselves. There are a lot of reasons why this is better a way to go. Control is a biggie. For example, once you send a document as an emailRead… Read more »
In the May 7th, 2012 post, I talked about policies you can implement to protect your online privacy. That post reinforced how important it is to use common sense when online. The biggest take-away from that article was not to use free services for editing, storing, or communicating personal information. However, it’s not always possibleRead… Read more »
There is a lot of hysteria about online privacy. It’s easy to understand when there’s an ad scrolling across the top of your screen referencing the words you just typed into the email you’re composing. Creepy. I mean, if they’re watching what you type, what else are they doing with your private information? I guessRead… Read more »
When I wrote in my blog last week that Google Drive’s announcement arrived with a whimper; that was after my initial impression. After working with it for a week, I would like to upgrade my appraisal from cool reception to something just shy of ‘game-changer’… let’s just call it ‘significant’. Why the change? Looking atRead… Read more »