Going Rogue: Managing the Double Agents in Your Community
I have a rogue group of members in my community. They don’t think I know it. But I know it all too well. Their tactics are completely juvenile. They plot against other members, and…
Winning the Muggles: Designing for the Mainstream
By Mark Suster
Chris Dixon wrote a blog post last week titled, “Techies and Normals” in which he defined “Techies” as people who are not just “early adopters” but also have more of a geeky, technical, product…
Will the Apple Tablet Truly be Wanted?
It was a funny sight today: the new guy’s iPhone quickly taps the desk in efforts to right it’s loose sim card."What’s the use of 2,000 apps if I can’t get reception?" Walking over…
iCurumba! Apple Tablet Has Projector, Flash, All Intel Inside. Also Cures Cancer.
By Tom Foremski
“This will be the most important thing I’ve ever done” – Steve Jobs, supposedly referring to the soon-to-be-launched Apple Tablet. All this frantic Apple fanatic hysteria has been like watching a cartoon. Their anticipation…
Cisco The Apple of Networking? NOT – The Polycom Juniper Partnership Implications
By John Furrier
Over the weekend the Wall Street Journal broke a story that Polycom was teaming up with Juniper Networks to deliver a different approach to video conferencing (aka teleprence) as compared with Cisco’s highly touted…
The New Media Minute, NATPE Conference Edition
International expansion is going to be vital to the growth of the cable and network TV business over the next several years, according to my New Media Minute report from the NATPE conference in…
Appcelerator Kicks Off the Tablet Announcement Early
Yes Jeff Haynie is taking advantage of the Apple news, even before it happens, but I gotta appreciate that in a CEO. He’s the leader of Appcelerator, a startup that has more than 19,000…
Three Words You Wouldn’t Hear 10 Years Ago: Homebrew Render Farm
It all started when I wanted some new network icons. Somehow all the ones I used in the past were made by an art department I strangely do not have access to anymore, and…
What Do You Mean By Mobile Internet?
A blog post over at ReadWriteWeb and a study by UK-based Essential Research say that “only 76% don’t access the mobile Internet.” Mike Melanson at RWW calls this “combating the hype.” The problem is…
The 18 Best Videos Demonstrating Augmented Reality
Last week I announced that eComm will be Co-Locating the World’s First Commercial Augmented Reality Conference. Below are some AR demos I’ve assembled together, mostly mobile based. Remember, that if you’d like to speak…