How To Build a Rockin’ LinkedIn Presence - Short 5-step tutorial from a Chief Branding Officer on how to set up a company page on LinkedIn. You do have a rockin' personal LinkedIn account already, don't you?
2012 Mobile Trends And What They Mean For Product Strategists - This is the kind of article I look for to keep myself employed and my employer "in business." Short, easy-to-read list of the key trends you and I should keep abreast of and implement.
iPad’s Momentum in Restaurants Grows with Buffalo Wild Wings Trial - This is what I'm talking about today. Customers use iPads to order and pass the time in a major chain restaurant. The snow ball is gaining speed and snow.
Staples leads the way with new tablet-optimized experience - Major retailer is among first to offer tCommerce (tablet commerce). Plan to show this site in my tablet classes today.
Is this the tipping point for mobile commerce? - Seems the logical follow on after the above mobile articles. Good summary of stats. Yeah, mobile commerce is at the tipping point and going over. BTW, I've registered for a free 1-hour webinar on mobile commerce during the past holiday season. You might also.
The Rise Of Content Marketing [Infographic] - Content marketing is the production of content like videos, music and other content which is used to brand a product or build market share. The infographic gives a good summary of the state of this industry.
what is mLearning - Short animated video explaining mLearning in simple terms. This video actually stimulated some ideas on how to add audio to my mLearning project.
ADL Mobile Learning Newsletter - Weekly list of mLearning articles. Haven't had an opportunity to explore the links yet. If you find gold, please comment.
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Showing posts with label future. Show all posts
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Need to Know - Small Business Technology: January 3, 2012
6 Ways To Dramatically Boost Your Landing Page Conversion Rate - The actual 6 Ways are in a free (no email address required) downloadable PDF. Well written guide that I would recommend professionally to clients. Download a copy now for yourself!
6 Tech Trends to Watch in 2012 - Want to know what technical "ships" are just offshore and about to land? This is the kind of article that makes me money and keeps me gainfully employed by telling me what I should be learning. Our favorite 2012 trend is #5 - Bring your own device (BYOD).
Drivers submit a photo, auto shops bid on their car repair - Really neat app that hopefully will lead to lower costs for repairs and eventually auto insurance. Hope this goes viral and has a national impact.
Free mobile internet in exchange for participation in local offers - This is clever. Who doesn't like free? Unfortunately there are no free lunches. Someone has to pay.
5 Steps To Measure The ROI Of Digital Media Channels - Fairly academic article describing the basic steps to aggregate your stats into a single system for analyzing ROI. Light on details and doesn't recommend the final single repository. Read for the underlying concept and not step-by-step instructions.
6 Tech Trends to Watch in 2012 - Want to know what technical "ships" are just offshore and about to land? This is the kind of article that makes me money and keeps me gainfully employed by telling me what I should be learning. Our favorite 2012 trend is #5 - Bring your own device (BYOD).
Drivers submit a photo, auto shops bid on their car repair - Really neat app that hopefully will lead to lower costs for repairs and eventually auto insurance. Hope this goes viral and has a national impact.
Free mobile internet in exchange for participation in local offers - This is clever. Who doesn't like free? Unfortunately there are no free lunches. Someone has to pay.
5 Steps To Measure The ROI Of Digital Media Channels - Fairly academic article describing the basic steps to aggregate your stats into a single system for analyzing ROI. Light on details and doesn't recommend the final single repository. Read for the underlying concept and not step-by-step instructions.
Friday, December 30, 2011
Need to Know - Small Business Technology: December 30, 2011
5 Totally SWAG Social Media Predictions for 2012 - I think the first 4 of these predictions are spot on. We'll have to see if the demise of Klout occurs. We are also one of the early adopters that have disconnected our profile from Klout.
12 Sites for Ebook Publishing - This a short, but good review of places you can publish your PDFs and eBooks. While we knew of the top four, we had missed some other key distribution channels. Take a moment and see how many of the 12 you are familiar with yourself.
How to Use Content to Increase Your Sales - A seven-minute video condensing a successful content strategy used by Marcus Sheridan of The Sales Lion. The best takeway is likely to "blog about the problems customers have with what you sell."
GutCheckit Levels Market Research Playing Field for Small Businesses - New cloud service offers small businesses ability to interview potential product buyers and services users for $40 per interview. The first clone to offer a similar service for $10 per interview will win this niche.
This Is Why Your Website Is Slow - Ghostery released its annual list of things that are currently bringing websites to a crawl. Likely nothing on this list is on your site unless you host at GoDaddy.com. In which case you might consider changing your analytics to Google Analytics.
How to interview a designer with the perfect design exercise - This is likely of more interest to me than you, but its always good to learn about solutions used by others.
In retail stores, research tool uses Kinect to track shoppers’ behavior - Very short 1:14 minute video showing a novel use for the Microsoft Kinect situational controller for xBox game sets. Spooky to imagine these systems everywhere one shops. Best demo music we've ever heard. The music also pauses when the customers pause. Did we mention is just a little over a minute?
How the Service Industry Can Use the Web For Leads and Sales - Much needed information on an often neglected web segment. Includes an embedded slide show at the bottom.
10 careers that will be hot in 2012 - No real surprises here, except discount stores will have an increasing need for managers. Who knew?
12 Sites for Ebook Publishing - This a short, but good review of places you can publish your PDFs and eBooks. While we knew of the top four, we had missed some other key distribution channels. Take a moment and see how many of the 12 you are familiar with yourself.
How to Use Content to Increase Your Sales - A seven-minute video condensing a successful content strategy used by Marcus Sheridan of The Sales Lion. The best takeway is likely to "blog about the problems customers have with what you sell."
GutCheckit Levels Market Research Playing Field for Small Businesses - New cloud service offers small businesses ability to interview potential product buyers and services users for $40 per interview. The first clone to offer a similar service for $10 per interview will win this niche.
This Is Why Your Website Is Slow - Ghostery released its annual list of things that are currently bringing websites to a crawl. Likely nothing on this list is on your site unless you host at GoDaddy.com. In which case you might consider changing your analytics to Google Analytics.
How to interview a designer with the perfect design exercise - This is likely of more interest to me than you, but its always good to learn about solutions used by others.
In retail stores, research tool uses Kinect to track shoppers’ behavior - Very short 1:14 minute video showing a novel use for the Microsoft Kinect situational controller for xBox game sets. Spooky to imagine these systems everywhere one shops. Best demo music we've ever heard. The music also pauses when the customers pause. Did we mention is just a little over a minute?
How the Service Industry Can Use the Web For Leads and Sales - Much needed information on an often neglected web segment. Includes an embedded slide show at the bottom.
10 careers that will be hot in 2012 - No real surprises here, except discount stores will have an increasing need for managers. Who knew?
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Mobile Phone Apps Ideas
Just a short post on some ideas for mobile phone apps we'd like to see developed:
Multimeter
Would like to see and app developed to turn a phone into a multimeter for measuring and recording AC and DC voltages. This app would also need a USB adapter for plugging in test leads.
Oscilloscope
Once the multimeter app is developed, the next obvious step would be to develop a digital recording o-scope. Again, there would need to be an adapter for attaching X1 and/or X10 probes.
Signal Generator
Of course, anyone using a digital o-scope also likely has need of a signal generator.
Frequency Analyzer
What better way to detect and display radio frequency signals than to develop a frequency analyzer app. Just think, you could sweep your hotel room for "bugs".
Radio Direction Finder
Civil Air Patrol members used to buy $20 Radio Shack VHF radios and modify them for direction finding of electronic locator transmitters (ELTs). We used to hold the radio close to our body and slowly turn around to establish a direction. Imagine the efficacy of converting millions of cell phones to DF units. If you think geo-caching is a blast, just wait until you go "fox hunting".
Probably one or more of these already exist or are in beta development. Your thoughts and ideas?
Multimeter
Would like to see and app developed to turn a phone into a multimeter for measuring and recording AC and DC voltages. This app would also need a USB adapter for plugging in test leads.
Oscilloscope
Once the multimeter app is developed, the next obvious step would be to develop a digital recording o-scope. Again, there would need to be an adapter for attaching X1 and/or X10 probes.
Signal Generator
Of course, anyone using a digital o-scope also likely has need of a signal generator.
Frequency Analyzer
What better way to detect and display radio frequency signals than to develop a frequency analyzer app. Just think, you could sweep your hotel room for "bugs".
Radio Direction Finder
Civil Air Patrol members used to buy $20 Radio Shack VHF radios and modify them for direction finding of electronic locator transmitters (ELTs). We used to hold the radio close to our body and slowly turn around to establish a direction. Imagine the efficacy of converting millions of cell phones to DF units. If you think geo-caching is a blast, just wait until you go "fox hunting".
Probably one or more of these already exist or are in beta development. Your thoughts and ideas?
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Motorola Droid: Desktop Computer System Mod
While I'm not an active cell phone user, the recent introduction of the Motorola Droid phone got my noggin going with the question: Can I use a smartphone as a replacement for a desktop computer? Based on the specifications of the Motorola Droid phone, the theoretical answer to that question is YES!
Bearing in mind that a computer system has only a few key parts, namely:
Input
Central processing unit (CPU)
Arithmetic-logic unit (ALU)
Storage
Output
The Motorola Droid is interesting in that it offers the capability for external input and output devices while offering albeit it limited CPU and long-term storage capabilities:
Bluetooth wireless keyboard (input device)
Motorola Droid (CPU, ALU, storage)
HDMI LCD monitor/TV (output device)
While HDMI enabled monitors and televisions are commonly available, the one quirk in building a prototype Droid desktop computer system lies in the Bluetooth keyboard. It seems there are two competing Bluetooth protocols for wireless keyboards and the Droid makes use of the less popular protocol. To build a Droid based desktop computer, one should ensure their Bluetooth keyboard is dual protocol enabled. This would ensure the Bluetooth keyboard is compatible with other or future devices.
For the Droid smart phone product engineers, consider adding at least one USB port so a USB hub could be attached for wired keyboards, external memory expansion, and other to be determined auxiliary devices.
Bearing in mind that a computer system has only a few key parts, namely:
Input
Central processing unit (CPU)
Arithmetic-logic unit (ALU)
Storage
Output
The Motorola Droid is interesting in that it offers the capability for external input and output devices while offering albeit it limited CPU and long-term storage capabilities:
Bluetooth wireless keyboard (input device)
Motorola Droid (CPU, ALU, storage)
HDMI LCD monitor/TV (output device)
While HDMI enabled monitors and televisions are commonly available, the one quirk in building a prototype Droid desktop computer system lies in the Bluetooth keyboard. It seems there are two competing Bluetooth protocols for wireless keyboards and the Droid makes use of the less popular protocol. To build a Droid based desktop computer, one should ensure their Bluetooth keyboard is dual protocol enabled. This would ensure the Bluetooth keyboard is compatible with other or future devices.
For the Droid smart phone product engineers, consider adding at least one USB port so a USB hub could be attached for wired keyboards, external memory expansion, and other to be determined auxiliary devices.
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Multi-Media Video Glasses
I didn't know these were available."The Zetronix 50" Multi-Media Virtual Video Glasses simulates a 50” television screen allowing you to watch anything you want in privacy. The picture is displayed right in front of your eyes as a virtual big screen. The effect is that you feel as though you are watching a 50" flat screen television, from 2 meters away, in a dark room."The future is available to you now for the low, low price of only $199.99.
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
HP Designjet 3D Printer
The future can be yours for a measley $17,500. HP has released their new Designjet 3D printer. Are you still printing on paper in only two dimensions? How quaintly 20th Century.HP's Star Trek like device can print plastic in three dimensions to instantly manufacture plastic parts and anything else you can squeeze into its 203 x 152 x 152 mm build bay. Personally, we would love to have one of these this week to print ourselves a pair of Fast Tab 6's for a lightweight backpack.
On the dark side, this is yet another reason why American manufacturing will not likely be making a big comeback in the 20th Century. If everyone has a 3d printer, then there is little need for plastics manufacturers. Toss in the ability to spray conductive ink to make circuits and components, and these boxes could be printing small appliances like mp3 players and cell phones before the century ends. Remember, television wasn't on anyone's radar in 1910, neither was radar for that matter.
One catch though - it's only available in Europe for the time being. I suspect it may be a time zone thing as Europe is 6-7 hours ahead of the United States. Thus the future arrives in Europe well before the future arrives in North America.
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