Imagine being able to move objects with only your thoughts. Simply thinking a thought, and then an object does your bidding. For many humans struck with paralysis such as Lou Gehrig Disease or Locked In Syndrome, this isn’t only a sci-fi pipe dream, but a much hoped reality.
Now it is a reality. [...]
Filed under: Accessibility, Emerging Technology, Interface Design, Research, Usability on November 5th, 2008 | No Comments »
MarketingProfs.com had a fantastic article on how to market to digital natives. These digital natives can be youths who were raised with these new communication mediums to web workers who are immersed in the various technologies and tools.
The article links to this great analysis of how digital natives think differently from others. [...]
Filed under: Emerging Technology, Marketing Strategy, Research, Social Media, Usability, Web Business on November 4th, 2008 | No Comments »
A competitor to Google has entered the stage. The new entrant is Cuil (pronounced COOL). As their press release states,
Cuil provides organized and relevant results based on Web page content analysis. The search engine goes beyond today’s search techniques of link analysis and traffic ranking to analyze the context of each page [...]
Filed under: Emerging Technology, Interface Design, Marketing Strategy, Pay Per Click, SEM, SEO, Search, Web Business on July 29th, 2008 | No Comments »
After years of the rather defined rule that use of Fash equates to search engine optimization death, Google has figured out how to crawl flash content. Sorta. Mostly. Not really.
How Google Crawls Flash
The technologist in me asks: how did they do this? Apparently, Google (and Yahoo) had a little [...]
Filed under: Emerging Technology, Interface Design, SEM, SEO, Web Business on July 1st, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Have you noticed that a lot of your friends are more likely to shop online as a way to combat $4/gallon or more gas prices? Indeed, you have spotted a significant trend. One-third (33 percent) of online US adults are more likely to shop online, rather than at a store, because [...]
Filed under: Emerging Technology, Marketing Strategy, SEM, SEO, Social Media, Uncategorized, Web Business on June 26th, 2008 | No Comments »
Cisco, in collaboration with Musion, recently had a live “telepresence” presentation. Specifically, it combines voice and data and presents it with a full body holographic image. While the script to this presentation is beyond terrible, this is some technology to follow.
So far, they have 28 customers, with 150 “rooms” at Cisco [...]
Filed under: Emerging Technology on May 30th, 2008 | No Comments »
Facebook’s growth has begun decelerating. In April 2008 Facebook traffic declined 10%, dropping from 24.9M to 22.4M unique visits. Furthermore, year over year growth declined from 98% to 56%. During this same time, LinkedIn jumped 361%, propelling it to the 4th largest social network destination.
Trouble is brewing for Facebook, [...]
Filed under: Emerging Technology, Social Networking, Web Business on May 30th, 2008 | No Comments »
Currently, the average person pays at least $60/month for cable, or about $750/year. And this is 77% up from just 12 years ago, nearly twice the rate of inflation, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
That’s just over $2/day, every day, for a year. For what?
Demand for the Internet TV [...]
Filed under: Emerging Technology, Media, Web Business on May 27th, 2008 | No Comments »
But be careful what you then say yes to.
At least, that is how we see the rather recent change in TV subscriptions. The early adopters are announcing they are tired of “wasting” time and paying high cable bills. So, they are saying no to TV.
Before you begin to feel guilt about [...]
Filed under: Emerging Technology, Social Networking, Web Business on May 5th, 2008 | No Comments »
First, let’s get the important stuff out of the way — Starbucks is offering free ground coffee samples.
Now, the web stuff.
Take a look at the StarbucksCoffeeAtHome.com website. Now take a closer look. Look at the details that make this such a vivid experience.
The use of a chalk board, consistent with Starbuck’s [...]
Filed under: Emerging Technology, Interface Design, Viral Marketing on April 7th, 2008 | No Comments »
