Category#application

Apps for the iPad Mini

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So, Ive had my iPad Mini for a total of three days and I’ve already come up with several product upgrades I’d like to see from a couple of my favorite apps. For those of you that don’t own a Mini, you need to go get one now. You’ll use it twice as much as the standard iPad. It’s the scale of the device. iPad is for media consumption, Mini is combo pack – media...

Lessons learned from 18 year olds

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I’m currently one of five professors teaching a business course to first year/first quarter undergraduates. This course is unique in that it’s a combination of business 101 while tasking students with creating an mobile app based business. (Details can be found here.) A winning team is selected from each class and those teams then go on to compete in the bonus round with a eight angel...

If advertising is to work on mobile . . .

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So  . . . if you’ve read this blog with any frequency, you know that Im not really a fan of advertising in general. No one wakes up and thinks “w00t! I CANNOT wait to see my first ad today!” They’re at best a nuisance or a form of entertainment during events such as the Super Bowl. As the digital world transitions from the PC based advertising of “throw the junk...

What’s Facebook evolving into?

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So . . . two or three years ago, Facebook was the thing that you had to be on. Now, it’s the thing that everyone has. As the service reaches maturity, it has evolved into several things and has the potential to become something entirely different over time. It’s become: Like email. Everyone has one and it’s getting more boring by the second. (Not Facebook’s fault...

GetGlued

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Today I got a chance to talk to @jmburros of GetGlue. I had missed his presentation at #BigBoulder and was happy when he reached out after the event and offered to discuss how data is impacting GetGlue. I had four questions prepared . . . Q: What was your biggest takeaway from Big Boulder? A: The thing that struck me was how many companies were using social data. I was impressed by how fast they...