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Hearing Aid “Plug” Design
Ran across this concept for a hearing aid “plug”. This is very interesting, it’s too bad it doesn’t exist.. yet. Might see me with a plug someday after all. It’s nice to see the concept of hearing aids being ‘stretched’. Learn more about the design concept at designaffairs STUDIO.
Promoted Tweets Take Off
Twitter’s “Promoted Tweets” ad platform has launched with a high-profile partner in Virgin Airlines. Twitter selected a few partners and approached them about advertising opportunities during the first phase of rollout for the new promotion platform. Among them, Virgin Airlines has a reputation for social-media and internet savvy that made them a good prospect as [...]
WebMD Bets on Better Health Through Social Networking
Last month, WebMD, one of the most trusted health portals online launched a social networking platform, WebMD Health Exchange. The social network’s purpose is to provide a new way to connect consumers to WebMD’s health experts as well as provide an outlet for online communities by encouraging users to share their personal experiences online. In [...]
YouTube Makeover
YouTube, the internet’s largest video-sharing site, will get a major redesign today. According YouTube’s blog posts on the subject, the makeover will better feature the videos over other page content, and integrate a new playlist, queue system, and comments and video responses into a feed. Among the other changes to the design, YouTube will be [...]
Mobile Broadband’s Rapid Rise
Having broadband access everywhere is changing the way we live and interact, but it may also change mobile provider business models. From the iPhone to Android and Blackberry, smartphones are almost everywhere these days, and experiencing an exponential rise in popularity. According to a recent study by UK firm Coda Research Consultancy, the U.S. mobile [...]
Healthcare Reform – Silicon Valley Style
Healthcare has been a hot topic in the United States for the past few months. Legislative wrangling aside, the next revolution in healthcare could come from Silicon Valley. Mobile apps, internet technologies, and cloud-based software exists for everything from instant news feeds and self-publishing to location-awareness and social causes. Sharing these experiences via social media [...]
Facebook Overtakes Google and Yahoo!
Facebook topped Google to become the most visited U.S. Web site according to Experian Hitwise to take the No. 1 spot for the week ending March 13. This comes on the heels of traffic measurements from Compete.com indicating that Facebook overtook Yahoo! as the second-most visited site on the web in the U.S. in December [...]
Lessons Learned: Being Your Own Boss
For several years, I was working as a sole proprietor doing IT for several businesses in the LA area. The clients ranged in industries and size, from 5-person offices in PR to 500-person offices in entertainment. I wanted to share some of the lessons I learned from managing that enterprise. Although I no longer do [...]
Ebooks and innovation – the race is on!
The Apple iPad was a rather disappointing announcement for me. While we have long looked to Apple to give us new computing paradigms and ways of interacting with technology, the iPad felt uninspired, a rehash of what we’d seen. In addition, it felt to me like another lock-in, a way of trying to make the iTunes Store [...]
Twitter to Launch Ad Platform
All Things Digital broke the news this week that Twitter will launch an ad platform very soon. The service is expected to utilize twitter searches and match ads with queries. Users who don’t search for something won’t see the ads at all. Similar to tweets, the ads will be displayed in 140 characters or less and [...]
