SEOMOZ posted an interesting article about things that the current generation of kids (25 and under) probably have no clue about. Their full list, including commentary, can be found here, but here are some gems we liked (with our own comments).
Looking up Facts in an Encyclopedia or Dictionary – the “pedia” [...]
Filed under: Emerging Technology, Uncategorized, Web Business on February 25th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
At Sherpa! we often argue the merits of various web marketing tactics, particularly social media — twitter, second life, facebook. Today we stumbled upon the Twitter and Twittervision Google Mash-up.
On the left side of the screen you saw the candidates and received real-time results of their % for each state. You [...]
Filed under: Emerging Technology, Mobile, Social Media, Web Business on February 5th, 2008 | 2 Comments »
First there was Kindle, Amazon’s eReader. Now we have Readius — a mobile phone/eReader hybrid.
The difference, and it’s a mighty one, is that Readius uses ePaper’s inherent ability to fold and bend to expand out to 5 full inches of display. That’s quite a 43% increase from one of the largest [...]
Filed under: Emerging Technology, Interface Design, User Experience, Web Business on January 22nd, 2008 | No Comments »
Earlier this week Amazon released Kindle. Within minutes, the web was filled with reviews, mostly negative. Frankly, we don’t care about those reviews, mainly because most of them are from people who have never used one. More importantly, we don’t care about reviews. A review is simply one’s person opinion, and [...]
Filed under: Accessibility, Emerging Technology, Mobile, Usability, User Experience, Web Design on November 20th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I’m a fan of gadgets and web apps but only those that make my life easier. Email is a great tool, but as we have seen with information overload, in immature hands it can cause unneeded stress.
Here are some great tools that will make put your work/life back on balance.
Problem [...]
Filed under: Emerging Technology, Web Business on August 29th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
There is a lot of buzz about Second Life in the social media marketing circle. What is Second Life? Depends who you ask, but we see companies perceiving it as a virtual mall serving the computer-savvy.
SF-based creators Linden Research, Inc (or Linden Labs) debuted the metaverse four years ago, but [...]
Filed under: Emerging Technology, Marketing Strategy, Social Media on August 1st, 2007 | No Comments »
We labeled 2007 the Year of Multi-touch and a big part of that is the iPhone release this June 29th.
The New York Times has an excellent review of it today, and it brings up several points regarding the clear benefits of UI “beauty” and a positive user experience.
What’s sweet about the [...]
Filed under: Emerging Technology, Mobile, User Experience on June 27th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Microsoft recently announced the release of their $10,000 behemoth Surface. The release of the iPhone is just a week away. And this past week Microsoft Research Cambridge’s Steve Hodges has taken multi-touch interface and applied it to a laptop. But you haven’t hear the last about this year’s buzzword [...]
Filed under: Emerging Technology, Usability, User Experience on June 24th, 2007 | No Comments »
As you develop your marketing strategy aiming at the coveted 25-35 year old generation consider this description of a typical generation y’er as stated in BusinessWeek
Consider Brazilian Fabricio Zuardi, 27. He grew up 180 miles from São Paulo and found a job via the Web with Silicon Valley tech startup Ning Inc. Zuardi now lives [...]
Filed under: Emerging Technology, Marketing Strategy, Social Networking, Web Business on June 22nd, 2007 | No Comments »
I’ve often been caught saying that I can’t wait until I’m older, and not for all that mad-money I’ll be raking in from my social security checks. No, I can’t wait until then because I can only imagine how great video gaming will be. Oh how I love me some engrossing video games. [...]
Filed under: Emerging Technology, User Experience on April 2nd, 2007 | No Comments »
