Articles

5/14/2012

The Magazine Industry's Death Rattle

5/2/2012

foursquare + american express = small business saturday

This past shopping frenzy of a weekend (the weekend following Thanksgiving with Black Friday now starting at 10pm on Thanksgiving night, which is Thursday) there was actually a program piloted by one of Foursquare's biggest partners, American Express ($AXP) called Small Business Saturday.

5/2/2012

Google Drive Search With Alfred App

Here's a quick productivity hack for you. If you don't already use Alfred you should. It is a fantastic productivity tool much faster than Spotlight or Quicksilver, in my opinion.

4/16/2012

The Future Of Check Ins Is Not About Location

In response to an article on Read Write Web titled Life After Death of the Check-In I felt compelled to not only comment on it, but ultimately write the following blog post.

4/16/2012

In App Product Placement Or The Future Of Mobile Ads

Ask nearly anyone if they want ads in their mobile experience and most of them will respond with a stentorian "no". The late Steve Jobs even stated in 2010 that mobile ads "suck". Yet the dollar spend in mobile "ads" is going up exponentially and is predicted to soar over the next few years, from $3.3 billion in 2011 to a whopping $20.6 billion by 2015.

3/15/2012

Where Iphone App Dashboard Breaks Down

Apple is undeniably one of the best, if not the best, user-focused design companies in the world. The marriage of industrial design with elegant hardware and software has created one of the greatest devices ever: the iPhone.

2/25/2012

On The Poisonous Thinking Of Dot Com Products

A wise friend and colleague of mine said sometime last year that there is a "changing of the guards" taking place in the dot-com and pre-dot-com era technology companies with, fresh, young blood taking the helm at key positions. I wholeheartedly agree with this assertion, but what does that have to do with the title of this post.

2/5/2012

The Biggest Game Changer For The Super Bowl Is Mobile Apps

It's that time of the year again where loads of Americans gather around the TV, collectively consume 1.25 billion chicken wings and actually stay tuned to watch commercials. And yes, there is a pretty big football game that takes place as well.

2/2/2012

Pinterest Is Not A Virtual Pinboard

With all the hubbub around Pinterest lately, people have been chatting about many things from the sexy user experience to how Pinterest is not ready for tech brands. Yawn. The real story that people are missing is how Pinterest has unlocked the secret to get their users to create personal, profiled, curated storefronts.

12/15/2011

Using The Async Module For Rational Flow Control

The bottom line: the async module provides you a way to write asynchronous code in a clean, readable and useful fashion. It should be yet another tool in your kit for node programming.

12/12/2011

On Qr Codes

Many insights in regards to mobile strategy overall can be gained at the flaws and failures/lack of current success of QR codes, namely from a UX perspective (poor software) and more importantly the context of the end user.