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 Revolution According to [...]
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 your old-school [...]
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 use [...]
Filed under: Emerging Technology, Interface Design, Viral Marketing on April 7th, 2008 | No Comments »
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” where kids used [...]
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 could select between [...]
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 displays — 3.5 [...]
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 all too often it [...]
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 – When scheduling [...]
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 it is only really [...]
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 phone: “Phone [...]
Filed under: Emerging Technology, Mobile, User Experience on June 27th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
