Entries from February 2010

Friday, February 26th, 2010

Did You Know?

Stumbled on this online. Kind of a good look at the more recent statistics and general goings on in the world of technology today. The producers have made a few of these videos, and they put out new ones periodically, so if you want, you should peruse some of the older ones a well. All [...]

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

Microsoft Surface and the Establishment of the Techno Reality

I’ve seen these ads before, as they have been around for years, but they are beginning to look a lot more relevant these days in the way advances in technology are leading the user experience. With user interactive experiences becoming more of a mainstream motif these days than they were five years ago, devices such [...]

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

The Social Media Idiot

I wonder sometimes if there are still people that think like this? I’m sure there are, but it’s funny to think with all the push for green this and green that, corporately funded social programs, media awareness, watchdog groups, and general public sentiment that they can even be thinking that they are getting away with [...]

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

A Brief History of Social Media

A brief, but good history reference on the evolution of social media from the dawn of email through the cloud computing phenomenon. Brings up a lot of older concepts that I’d kind of forgotten about. It’s also interesting how we’ve adopted so many different technologies into our every day lives at this point in our [...]

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

Walmarts Acquisition of VUDU And The Future of Video Rentals

So I was reading an article on Walmarts acquisition of VUDU, VUDU being an online video rental service similar to several others in the market right now, and started thinking how similar this marketplace is to that of video rental chains in the late 80′s and early 90′s. Back in the day, companies such as [...]