Successful Techniques for Building Your Industry Voice with Social Media

May 18, 2010

Keynote presentation I gave at the PINC Show, a conference for print designers. I discussed some techniques others have used for building industry voice, and focused particularly on the power of super users and contests powered by social media.

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Roundup of SFMusicTech new technology demos

May 17, 2010

A look at some of the new tech companies and initiatives that presented at SFMusicTech: Pledge Music, Creative Allies, Extension.FM, Music Hack Day, and Alcatel-Lucent.

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Why do the "They still don't get it" stories persist?

May 15, 2010

Viacom blows it again, requiring YouTube to remove a video that they didn’t produce or own, that was created by a fan. They squashed what could have been positive buzz for their movie.

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What you can and can’t do (but soon will do) with augmented reality

May 11, 2010

A wrap up of Gene Becker’s fantastic presentation at the Web 2.0 Expo about all the different aspects of augmented reality. If you didn’t know what’s possible with augmented reality, who’s doing it, and what are the hurdles to overcome, this is the article to read.

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Social Gaming Summit: Is gaming overseas more or less lucrative?

May 9, 2010

At the Social Gaming Summit in San Francisco, developers kept talking about the increasingly stringent contractual rules just to exist on platforms such as Facebook and the iTunes store. If you think it stinks in the U.S., try making deals in Asia said the members of the “International Perspectives” panel.

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Up Against Zynga: Small and medium developers surviving the social gaming landscape

May 8, 2010

With a handful of powerhouse development companies dominating the gaming space, what room is there for small and medium sized development groups? At the Social Media Gaming Summit in San Francisco, a group of small to medium sized social game developers discussed how they’re surviving in a Zynga-dominated world.

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Audience building roundup from the PINCShow

May 5, 2010

Here’s a summary of links from my presentation at the PINCShow 2010 design conference in San Francisco. The presentation covers more than a dozen examples of how individuals and businesses have used different social media techniques to build their audience.

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My daily media consumption habits for 2010

May 3, 2010

I’m a heavy consumer of media content, but I don’t purchase newspapers anymore. Thanks to the Web, RSS feeds, and mobile devices, I’ve shifted my consumption habits. Here’s a summary of what I consume and where.

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Why can't John C. Dvorak and I just get along?

April 29, 2010

In another episode of Cranky Geeks, John C. Dvorak, Sebastian Rupley, Sam Levin and I go at it on a number of tech issues of the week. But it really gets heated more than halfway through when John and I start arguing about an inappropriate invite I received from a PR firm.

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Who needs a 200 GB drive in their car?

April 23, 2010

This week on Cranky Geeks with John C. Dvorak, Sebastian Rupley, and Andrew Eisner of Retrevo we discussed a lot of Apple stuff (what’s new) such as the iPad (can’t get away from it) and the new found iPhone (Was it a stunt? Is it real? Do you care?).

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