Archive for October, 2009
Air Guitarist’s shirt
This shirt from ThinkGeek actually lets you play major chords. Rock on! From the site: “The Electronic Guitar Shirt is not a toy that plays pre-canned musical riffs, it is a real musical instrument that allows you to play your favorite songs and sound great doing it. All major chords are recorded from a real [...]
Social Search
Big changes are coming to search, and partnerships between social networks and search engines are at the forefront. At the recent Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Google and Microsoft each announced partnerships and forthcoming changes to search that will enable each to tap into the ‘real-time’ and social web, or specifically, Twitter messages and [...]
Our Governor’s snark
A recent message from Gov. Schwatzenegger to Assemblyman Tom Ammiano – read closely (the first letters of the left hand-column spell out a particular insult). OK, it’s kind of funny, but mostly it’s a sad statement on how well (read: poorly) the governor and legislature has worked together in California.
Cracked – Curse of the Duck Hunt Dog
Curse of the Duck Hunt Dog — by friends at Tremendosaur! (and I helped!)
Memes for Marketing
Every brand marketer wants to create a viral campaign, but most attempts fail as it’s difficult to predict exactly what viral content will be embraced and shared. Rather than trying to force or sneak an idea into online communities and hope users respond, marketers should examine the nature of sharing online and rely less on [...]
Go Falcon Go!
The media coverage of this story was incredible – here comes the remixes, and the aftermath. I love it.
StumbleUpon redefines social sharing
STUMBLEUPON REDEFINES SOCIAL SHARING While Twitter and Facebook continue to wield the most influence in the social media ecosystem, StumbleUpon is undergoing a major redesign to challenge their hegemony, positioning itself as an alternative social search and discovery engine. With 8 million users per month, StumbleUpon is used to bookmark Web sites and share them [...]
Healthcare & Social Technologies
REINVENTING HEALTHCARE THROUGH SOCIAL TECHNOLOGIES Instant messaging with doctors, webcam visits, digitized healthcare records, online appointments, and electronic prescriptions are just some of the ways high-tech startups hope to change doctor-patient relationships for the better. At the recent Health 2.0 convention in San Francisco, new companies demonstrated how they plan to reinvent the way doctor-patient [...]
Book Review: A Fraction of the Whole
First things first: Would I re-read it? Definitely. It’s pretty good. A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz Toltz tells a fictional story about a truly remarkable but possibly mentally unstable family with a cast of interesting characters that keeps you wondering what they are really like. The book begins somewhat slow – a [...]
