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Just testing out the wpToGo Wordpress app for Android. It Works… needed to upgrade like 3 times before it let me log in though. There’s a good review of it here.
Strange how the review site uses a QR code for a download link but the actual wpToGo site doesn’t. More QR codes people! Does this technically qualify as mobile blogging, or micro blogging?
I don’t normally post other people’s stuff on my blog, but I just had to share this really awesome video by Keiichi Matsuda featuring a scary look into the future of Augmented Reality, what he calls augmented (hyper) reality, only it’s gone completely out of hand.
If we’re not careful, this could easily happen some day. It almost gives me a seizure… ( I like the Farrah Fawcett poster on the wall though. Really nice touch)
It really makes you question what our personal limitations will be and what they will either reject or accept when technology gets to this point.
Because of the business I am in, a lot of people have been asking me about what I think about the new, long awaited Apple iPad that was just announced this week.
Well, I have to say that I am both very excited about the potential and possibilities this thing has as well as just a little disappointed, all at the same time.
Before I get into that though, first, I would like to get something off my chest and say this:
Just what is the deal with so many people publicly slamming Apple about this thing??? Why the animosity?
Just as soon as it came out, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and the blogs were exploding with negative comments, even from Apple users.
Are people really that spoiled? More like completely naive, if you ask me… [click to continue…]
I almost forgot about this one! Back when I was just learning Flash like, 10 years ago, I thought it would be cool to make a vintage drum machine looking loop player to show off some samples. I never finished it, so it doesn’t do much, but maybe now that I found it again on an old backup disk, I can spend a little time on it and actually make it do something.
Oh yay! Another project…
I just wanted to take a second and wish everyone a happy new year. Besides the fact the 2010 is a visually pleasing number, I just have a good feeling about it.
On another note, despite all the cold weather, the resulting cabin fever is providing me with a fresh wave of musical inspiration, probably more so than in the last 5 years, so since my main new years resolution was to make more music, this is a good thing. Here’s a video of the new year fireworks in front of my building.
Cheers!
Yesterday, I came to the conclusion that we are all doomed and the financial world is going to hell, not in a hand basket, but in a snow shovel.
Let me explain…
Last night I had the joyous experience of trudging downtown through 6 inches of dirty, slushy, sloppy snow to finish up my last minute holiday shopping.
Hoping for some relief from the muddy slop when I finally reached a dignified, more trafficked shopping area, i was shocked to find out that there would be no relief.
In the midst of all the Gucci, Prada, iPhones and Starbucks, apparently NONE of the shop keepers managed to shovel any snow outside of their businesses.
Not one!
The result was a once beautiful town square being replaced instead with a sloppy mud pit, filled with hoards of insane holiday shoppers splashing and stampeding through the shops and malls, all the while dragging the slop with them. [click to continue…]
What the heck are QR Codes? A QR Code (or Quick Response code) is a matrix style graphical code similar to a bar code, invented by the Japanese corporation Denso-Wave in 1994, as seen in the example. They can be read using a scanner and most recently by cameras on mobile phones with special software apps.
Originally designed to track parts in warehouses, they have since become very popular in Japan in much broader contexts, where they are used for huge mobile advertising campaigns.
Since QR codes can embed all types of data, they are now being used to contain URLs, messages, personal contact data and most recently as hyperlinks to identify objects in the physical world.
QR Codes have been big in Japan due to the fact that the mobile devices there are already equipped to read them. They use them everywhere, on billboards, vending machines, websites, advertising, even popular fashion, but up until now, the west has been slow to adapt due to mobile technology restraints.
All of that is all about to change though. [click to continue…]
I am doing a little experiment and looking for some input specifically from online marketers regarding what your Follow Strategy and Behavior is on Twitter.
Please share your input via the comments, as I am really interested in your opinions.
My wife bought me an Amazon Kindle (Amazon affiliate link) ebook reader for my 40th Birthday and I spent the last week getting used to it, so I decided to share a few thoughts.
My main reason for wanting a Kindle is due to the fact that I live in Germany and being a huge non fiction reader, and since the English sections in the book stores here are small and mostly just filled with the latest best seller, crap fiction, I am pretty much always starved for decent non fiction (in English) beyond the internet.
Since the Kindle global wireless version offers immediate, free mobile access to the entire English based Amazon Store (anywhere in the world) pretty much anything I want in kindle format (books, magazines, newspapers) are usually one click and 30seconds away (depending on my wireless connection quality)
Another reason I wanted a Kindle is because (as anyone involved in internet marketing would attest to) you end up reading a ton of ebooks and pdf’s. If you ever tried to spend the evening reading one on your glowing laptop screen, after about 20 pages, your eyes are burnt. My wife and I also like to read in bed and the thought of nestling up next to my glowing hot laptop for a good read before slipping off to sleep is not so comfortable.
Since the Kindle is thin, lightweight and has that fancy digital ink screen, reading is much easier on the eyes and hands. [click to continue…]
Who is Ed Dale and what is the 30 Day Challenge?
If you are not familiar with Ed Dale, he is one of the world’s top internet marketing gurus and the mastermind behind the 30 Day Challenge, one of the greatest, most comprehensive, free internet marketing training programs available today.
For people wanting to learn how to make money on the internet, the 30 Day Challenge is the starting point. Hands down, no questions asked… The goal of the program is to help complete newbies understand how to make their first dollar online, and the program has gained world wide success, because it really works. As a result, people are actually making money and it is opening up new windows of opportunity for people struggling to find new income streams for themselves in today’s troubled economy.
Last night I had the pleasure of meeting with Ed in Frankfurt Germany for an impromptu 30DC get together for drinks and schnitzel. Upon hearing of the meet up, i cancelled everything and eagerly jumped the train to Frankfurt where I met him in the hotel lounge where we sat and talked for about a half an hour for a surprising, private one on one before we headed off to meet the rest of the group at the restaurant. Two of the guys there were Frank and Dinu from YUM in Frankfurt. [click to continue…]
