From the category archives:

::convergence::

Facing Facebook – The Social Network

CONS: I have this overwhelming gut feeling that the story arc on this Facebook film will end up falling flat on it’s face. A movie about a website? Not a website about a movie? PROS: There’s no one more perfect than Jesse Eisenberg to play Mark Zuckerberg. Great casting. A movie about a website! Not [...]

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A New (Synthetic) Life

Where have I been the last 2 months?

Working hard, having a bit of fun, and living life.

Speaking of life, did you hear about the new synthetic one?

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AwayFind

I know, I know, I’ve been MIA. I trust you’ve been fine, yes? Hope so. Anyway, I changed my email password because of the spam hacks that have been going on this week. What happened a lil bit later? AwayFind emailed me saying they couldn’t check my email and asked me to update my account [...]

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Why Our Kids Are Going to Be So Much Smarter Than Us if We Don’t Blow Up the Earth First

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The Future of Advertising is Beginning to Look a Lot Like Stewie

Or, perhaps more accurately, the future of advertising looks like Seth MacFarlane’s Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy. Talk about product placement and seamless integration. Not hard when the creative director controls the advertising, its placement, and the media where it appears. Well, maybe it is hard, but MacFarlane seems to make everything look easy. Take this [...]

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Clicker :: The Greatest Convergent Device Ever

Oh sure. The iPhone is swell. But does it have a bottle opener? No. Enter the Clicker. Controls up to 9 components, opens unlimited numbers of beers. This, my friends, is the moment we’ve been waiting for.

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Game On

Weird day. I was just talking about games and behavior modification. Specifically, this video featuring Carnegie Mellon Professor Jesse Schell. In fact, I was just about to blog about this video: … when a Mashable twitter post flashed by, asking ‘Can Gaming Save the World?’, and led me to this highly inspiring video from Dr. [...]

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AwayFind :: Get Away from the Inbox, Get Found When Needed

The real power of AwayFind is found in the ability to set filters to be notified of important messages via email, IM, Twitter DM, text, or even voice message.

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Twitter vs. Buzz. What’s better? THE ANSWER TO YOUR BURNING QUESTION.

Buzz is too different from Twitter to be ‘better.’ Better depends on both the intended use and the user. Better means you can tell all your clients to use one and not the other.

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Vancouver on Your Desktop

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Looking for a way to find out exactly what Olympic events are coming up next? Trying to follow results while working? Olympic.org has a great desktop widget to enhance winter sports enthusiasm. Use it to track events, results, breaking news, and more.

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Seriously, For Assistance, Get Siri

There’s a great writeup about Siri over on ReadWriteWeb. Siri, a virtual personal assistant, will recognize your voice query and either give you the answer to your question or connect you to the right web service. As far as digital convergence goes, this is a doozy. It communicates with communication mediums for you. According to [...]

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Bringing Parts of the Physical World into the Digital World

I love this kind of stuff. It shows the power of human ingenuity, but also, just how close we are to merging what used to be thought of as the physical world with that of the mental world, or imagination. Essentially, we are now beginning to blur what previous generations would have considered to be [...]

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