What if I was writing an email and my email program flashed at me saying, “I don’t think you should send this. The tone is very antagonistic. Perhaps you should revise it.” In a sense, that’s what Zettaset proposes to do: http://gigaom.com/cloud/zettaset-raises-3m-for-the-consumerization-of-big-data/ Zettaset has basically built a giant data analysis engine that looks at patterns [...]
Might Video Games Be Really Bad?
There has been a long debate about the supposed ill effects of video games. In fact, studies have surfaced over the years linking such. For example, in a 2007 Iowa ...
Quote: Why Poetry?
“Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.” -Percy Bysshe Shelley
Aggregation
I am going to keep talking about this subject as I think that it is becoming more relevant (both in mobile and Web) with the ever increasing ways and places where we can store media. Before I start suggesting products, I need to get all of the concepts out onto the page. First is reason. [...]
Successful Software
In order for software to be successful, I think it needs to capitalize on two things. First, software must exploit existing consumer behavior. Asking users to “re-learn” or spend time learning something new will kill adoption and usage. Second, software must employ existing technologies with which the user is comfortable. So, mobile software should make [...]
Amazon Hardware vs. Amazon Retail
With the Kindle, Amazon broke into the hardware game. Traditionally a retailer (both electronic and physical), they have seen a tremendous uptake in e-book purchasing because of their device. And now, it seems, they are going to build a tablet to compete against the iPad. http://thenextweb.com/gadgets/2011/07/13/amazon-to-release-a-tablet-by-october/ Some people might think this is insane but I [...]
The Coming Storm for Consumer Cloud Services
The growing number of proprietary clouds (some of which, like IGware that was recently purchased by Acer, that have hidden behind the scenes) is hinting at a very big problem in the future: data portability. Although I think it’s a good business model for device manufacturers like Acer, Dell, and Apple to build and launch [...]
Content Delivery to All Devices: Can You Afford NOT To?
Originally published on the Limelight Blog as part of my role as Sr. Director, Solutions Marketing (Digital Media) and Product Manager for Streaming. I recently read an article on StreamingMedia.com titled “Streaming to All Devices: Is it Worth the Expense?” And although it was a good article, bringing in lots of information from people in the [...]
The Consumerization of IT
Before the advent of the Apple App store, corporate IT environments were walled gardens. Phones were often provided by the IT departments and although they couldn’t be locked down like their desktop counterparts, employees were often forbidden (by IT policy) from installed third-party applications because of security risk and support overhead. But that has changed [...]
Google 10m users + 1 billion shared items. So What?
I think had we touted these numbers even 5 years ago, it would have been truly amazing. But with the explosive growth in being online worldwide, users have shown a greater proclivity for trying new services. It’s easy. Just sign up and go. Take it for a spin. Stop using it when you don’t want [...]
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