Here is one story making a bit of a viral appearance with my local friends on Facebook. With no dog running, Anderson Cooper has to back the cat. This makes me wonder if I should have had my dog Wilbur run. In anycase it is nice to see a candidate with a one issue agenda raising awareness in this town.
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Every September 19th, our inner pirate is able to come alive thanks to the designation of that day being International Talk Like a Pirate Day. That day is coming soon and I thought a bit about the origins of this and the spread of what was an anecdote to an international event. …the day is the only holiday to come
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Adobe® Edge is a new web motion and interaction design tool that allows designers to bring animated content to websites, using web standards like HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS3. Adobe re-branded their as yet to be publicly released Edge as Edge Animate. Hmm I think that might have been to make people aware that it is an animation tool, not
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Facebook has recently updated the photo tools. The first thing one notices is that the number of photos of you (where you have been tagged), the total number you have loaded and the number of albums are all listed together. Facebook actually took some time to pull together a quick visual representation of the updates. I like how the create
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Maybe it is the amount of friends I have on Facebook, or the increased penetration of people using smart phones, or both. This summer I have noticed a larger amount of people sharing photos from their summer adventures on Facebook than in past years. Of course it could be both reasons. I find the ability to see other peoples fun
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When you create cool stuff, it just has to go viral. With over 4.5 million views and counting, this is a great example of technology garnering our interest and hence reach as we post, share and tweet about cool stuff like this. I think it’s time to get out the old Lego bricks and dig into my tech drawer. Thanks
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Someone asked me today about ambient media. Looking it up on wikipedia, I got to thinking. Is this a way to advertising in the physical world in a social way? After all is not the grocery store just another social space? And if so then is not advertising on your shopping cart then a form of social media? Hmmm. Penny
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No doubt you have all seen the latest communication craze of infographics. Taking a complex set of ideas and data and distilling it into a presentation has always been a challenge. One screen at a time was the limit of PowerPoint. With an infographic, you throw that aside and scroll for information, or print it to the wall (a
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I came across an ad on Kijiji from the local health authority that was basically asking for free work entitled “Seeking volunteer with Adobe Flash experience to build animation” The ad claimed that “There should be no advanced programming or animation required.” The problem was, was that the work asked for was to be built in Flash and would be
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Running ads on YouTube to promote your video is nothing new. Neither is paying attention to details. I ran across this ad on YouTube. Interested I clicked. What I got was a video that gave me zero value. Some of the comments showed that posting a video about what is in the food is not a great idea
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