It seems like the location-based social media apps like Foursquare, Gowalla and BrightKite are finally beginning to pick up steam. Starbucks was an early adopter of Foursquare, and now I’m starting to see more and more small businesses take advantage of the opportunities that are being afforded by this new medium. In fact, our social media group is currently working with several clients, including O2 Fitness, to roll out location-based promotions. Continue Reading >
Apple HTML5 Showcase
Jun42010
Apple has put together an overview of some of the capabilities of HTML5 and CSS3 with some very nice examples. Check it out at http://apple.com/html5/.
HTML5 and CSS3 will enable a rich web unlike anything we’ve ever experienced before. The use of rich typography (without plugins) alone is going to change the visual quality of the web while providing an unparalleled user experience. The typographical revolution of the web is upon us!
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WWDC Sold Out
May72010
Apple’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference sells out for the third straight year in a record-breaking eight days. Not a good sign for Flash.
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Google Analytics Annotations
Dec172009
Finally! Google has added annotations to Analytics. This is the one feature I’ve been asking for since I began using GA. It allows you to leave small shared or private notes on the over-time graph. So now I won’t have to refer to the media flowchart to see when certain banner ad campaigns were launched or changed or when a change was made to a website and for what reason. This will make it much easier for the entire team to see those changes how they are influencing traffic patterns and usage of those websites.
Check out the video below for an overview:
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Google Analytics Adds New Features
Oct222009
Google Analytics has added some new features that enable tracking of mobile websites and mobile apps, the ability to set engagement goals, the ability to filter based on different metric conditions and use multiple custom variables. Another new feature is called Analytics Intelligence. It will provide automatic alerts of significant changes in the data patterns of your site metrics and dimensions over daily, weekly and monthly periods. Very cool stuff! Check out the video: 
Read the entire article here.
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Fixing SNMP in Mac OS X Server 10.5.7
Sep102009
I monitor our network with PRTG Network Monitor. After recently upgrading one of our Xserves from 10.5.4 to 10.5.7 (server), its status changed in PRTG to “in alarm” and was unable to connect via SNMP to collect any data. It turns out that the default configuration of the SNMP agent changed with the 10.5.7 upgrade, tightening access restrictions for the community string “public”. The fix is fairly simple. Edit line 97 of /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf and restart the SNMP daemon to reload the config file. Continue Reading >
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In-Depth Review of Snow Leopard
Sep32009
John Siracusa has posted an exhaustive review of Apple’s latest OS release, Snow Leopard. Great read if you really want to learn why you need to upgrade.
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Augmented Reality Game
Jul92009
I posted recently about an augmented reality shopping application. Pretty cool. But then I ran across this video for an augmented reality game. Very cool. Now we’re starting to see this technology reach it’s potential.
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The Future of Shopping
Jun232009
Check out this video of Zugara’s online augmented reality and motion capture shopping app. It’s relatively crude but the potential is incredible. Imagine this app when the technology matures a little. Then end of brick and mortar stores? Well, maybe not. But very cool nonetheless.
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Best Social Media Presentation Ever!
Jun62009
Wow! This is, by far, the best presentation I have seen that shows the conversational and viral nature of social media. DISCLOSURE: Video contains profanity.
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