Jul 04 2008
It’s been a couple of weeks since the last post. As you know, we’ve moved to Atlanta, Georgia, for a new beginning and new adventures. We’re looking forward to it.
Today is the 4th of July, and I thought it would be appropriate to show some patriotism. We’ll be up and publishing again on Monday. Have a great holiday weekend.
Jun 13 2008
The Big Move
Monday is our big move to Atlanta–and we’re going to be heading cross country for two weeks, hitting what are, in my opinion, the prettiest and more interesting places in America.
We’re going to have a guest blogger on Level2wo.net–founding partner and world-class web and design wiz, E. Themmen. I hope you enjoy his posts.
But from my end–it’s time for the fun stuff–showing off pictures of the places we will go! Below are some pictures from the national parks we’re going to–some of which I worked at during my youth–though, truth be told, I don’t feel it was that long ago.
Enjoy!
Jun 10 2008
iPhone Applications and More…
According to a CNN article, Apple “will charge $99 a year for its new MobileMe service, which sends e-mail, contact and calendar updates to users’ devices.”
Normal. Completely normal, at least that’s what we’ve come to expect–pay lots of money and you’ll get all of these cool services that we can’t live without–I mean, what’s a phone without texting, without email, and without the ability to input important events in my day like going to the mall to shop for my new, ergonomic headphones to listen to the little reminder from my iPhone that it’s time to go get my new ergonomic headphones?
But the phones are dropping in price. The reason? Because they’re being commodotized. Applications are where the money comes from for a lot of the companies in the cell phone business these days–applications like all of the ones mentioned above, but also applications for music downloading (the obvious one), as well as applications for mobile banking (somewhat obvious, but picking up speed here in the U.S., although already prevalent in other countries–I think Spain has a big one going already).
Like Facebook’s barrage of applications, Apple and pretty much any other technology company offering some sort of platform will be looking to make tons of cash through applications–an application being, for those of you who don’t live, breath, and sleep geekdom, being (per Wikipedia): a subclass of computer software that employs the capabilities of a computer directly and thoroughly to a task that the user wishes to perform.
Applications make people lots of money, which is why you tend to get all of those inane and often ridiculous things happening to you on Facebook–someone challenging you to a game of cyberchess or throwing a rubber chicken at you. Fun, I suppose, if you’re 12, but if you’re a grownup and not drunk on one too many martinis or stiff drinks, a wee bit stupid and pointless.
But it’s where technology is today. Social media has exploded, and applications fall nicely into that realm, even when the applications seem more an uber-geeks pet project than anything worth the time it took to create.
May 16 2008
Interactive Marketing Blogs
The sun is out today in Seattle, and we’re going to reach the abnormally hot 80s and 90s. What does that mean for you and Level2wo’s blog entries? It means it’s list time. Today I thought I would provide you, dear consumers of everything marketing and web, with some resources on Interactive Marketing, in particular Interactive Marketing Blogs that I read (though, perhaps, not as often as I should). In either case, that shouldn’t stop you from checking them out, and brushing up on your Interactive Marketing skills.
Again, I try to incorporate a variety of blogs, perhaps not the big ones out there but rather ones that I either find interesting or that you might not find on your own.
Hope you have some sunshine in your neck of the woods like we’re having here. Happy blogging!