Posts Tagged ‘technology’

I answered that pressing question today with the new Skype for iPhone update.

There are certainly going to be some unique uses for QR codes, but using them as a replacement for a URL is not one of them. It’s like looking for an elephant to tie your shoes. Or a lumberjack to pour your milk.

In reflecting on the fact that his son’s “eventual adult career does not exist yet,” Kelly explained the “technological smartness” he attempted to impart during his home schooling. What he wrote is some of the best advice about technology I’ve ever read.

Sometimes I just want the digital world to mimic the analog world. Exactly. It’s rare, but there are times that I don’t want an “vast improvement.” And I don’t want innovation. I just want to continue doing what I’ve always done, without having to change my behavior. I just want to do the same thing, only digitally. And this is the hope I have for the iPad for one specific task – my to do lists.

I’ve tried hard to not call myself a social media marketing expert or guru or master or rock star. What I haven’t done is correct others when they have. And I haven’t done a very good job of letting people know what I really am. That’s all about to change.

The notion that monetization, measurements of effectiveness and ROI are to be abandoned in the Social Media world is a foolish argument. It’s the same kind of nonsense that permeated the dot.com world and led to its meltdown. In hindsight, intelligent venture capitalists lost their sanity and threw millions of dollars at ideas that would never earn a nickel. That message was crap back then. It still is.

Back in November of 2008, I wrote up a quick review of two iPhone panorama stitching applications – Panorama vs. Pano. Shortly after that review, Panorama changed it’s interface, but it has remained my panorama app of choice. Until tonight. Enter AutoStitch for iPhone. AutoStitch appears to be based on the same core technology as [...]