Entries Categorized as 'Industry'

Poll: Will Flash developers learn Silverlight?

Date July 5, 2008

Poll: Are you excited about on-demand video

Date June 27, 2008

Guy Kawasaki – The Art of the Start

Date June 18, 2008

Recently I have been asking myself the question, what makes some companies so successful while other seem to have great ideas and amazing people, yet still struggle to find real meaning. I stumbled on this video from about two years ago where Guy Kawasaki is speaking about his take on what should motivate someone to [...]

Silverlight User Group

Date June 18, 2008

On July 2nd from 6pm-8pm there will be another open forum on Silverlight at Interface Technical Training in Phoenix.  Back in Nov Mike Palermo started the Arizona Silverlight User Group and I have heard great things about the topics being discussed.  I have never had the opportunity to attend, but I look forward to going [...]

XNA Gamefest 2008

Date May 8, 2008

For those that might be interested, this year’s XNA Gamefest will be held at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center in downtown Seattle on July 22-23 2008. In previous years the conference has included presentations in the following tracks. System Programming for Windows and Xbox 360 Graphics Quality Assurance and Certification Producer and Business [...]

Mozilla CEO blasts Apple for putting security of the internet at risk

Date April 6, 2008

This article is a few weeks old, but quite interesting.  It makes claims that Jobs is using Apple Software Update (specifically iTunes) to piggyback the Safari browser onto Windows machines.  Just last week I was prompted with an Apple update and questioned why Safari was trying to update on my boot camp partition.  I was [...]

Click Me, Baby… One More Time

Date April 4, 2008

Check out this article in the April 2008 issue of OMMA. Scott our Director of Strategy had the following to say about privacy expectations. But the reality is that there’s a new generation of consumers who have little or no privacy expectations, and they’re going to prove a rich source of performance data, suggests Scott [...]

IMAP Gmail on iPhone

Date January 7, 2008

Over the holiday my wife was so kind as to use her hard earned Holiday bonus and buy me an iPhone. For the last two years I have had my trusty old Sprint Treo connected directly to my companies Exchange and personal POP3 server. Now that I have made the first step in switching to [...]

Faceboook Backs off “Beacon”

Date November 30, 2007

This morning Facebook announced that it has made some significant changes to its new advertising program called Beacon to give its users better control over how their online purchases might be broadcast to that users Facebook friends. Tens of thousands of users have been complaining that there personal privacy has been compromised when Facebooks began [...]

Ganging Up on Facebook

Date October 31, 2007

Yesterday I read this interesting article titled Google and Friends to Gang Up on Facebook. The basis of the article was Google’s new alliances, which they hope will give them a way to take on Facebook. Specifically, Facebook’s recent decision to allow developers the ability to write against the Facebook platform API. The article states [...]