Advertising on Twitter

Back in April 2010, Twitter launched a new ad platform called “Promoted Tweets”.  This started with a select group of advertisers, including Best Buy, Bravo, Red Bull, Sony Pictures, Starbucks, and Virgin America.  Promoted Tweets are basically regular tweets sent out by these businesses that will reach a wider group of individuals.  Twitter uses user [...]

Technology Helps Keep Paper Organized

USB sushi

Back in the year 2000, the first USB flash drives were made available to the public by IBM and Trek Technology.  This drive had an 8 MB capacity, which was more than five times the space on a floppy disk.  Over the years, USB drives essentially replaced floppy disks and grew in storage capacity while [...]

Changing the way you view the Web

Have you ever visited a website and been unable to read the font because it’s too small, or you get bombarded by ads popping up all over the place? The accessibility team at Google has been working all summer on a method for users to customize the web to fit their needs.  What they came [...]

Open source vs. Corporation

A couple of years ago, an English Football Club named Ebbsfleet United was having serious financial issues and the debts that the club incurred were almost forcing them to bankruptcy.  Normally when this type of thing happens in professional sport, a wealthy new owner strolls in and takes over the club promising to the fans [...]

10 Tools & Apps for Design

StumbleUpon

With the recent release of the Ipad and Iphone4, as well as the numerous other smartphones with app capability, a great deal of tools and apps are released on a daily basis.  Because it wouldn’t be an effective use of your time to browse through all these apps, I have created a list of some [...]

The Future of the Web

When I created my first website in highschool around 1996 I used notepad and a very simple code called HTML (HyperTextMarkUpLanguage).  Since then, websites have evolved and HTML has become the standard code for most sites, along with CSS to add style to each page.  The newest version of this code is called HTML5, which [...]

Going Digital

Doxie

In today’s world, many companies are making an effort to be more environmentally friendly by giving customers the option to go paperless.  This is a great way to reduce the amount of paper waste created by things such as telephone, cable, and internet bills.  I recently created a profile with my cell phone company and [...]

Business and Social Media

I recently saw a trailer for an upcoming movie and instead of having the standard recommendations from critics (ie – Best Movie of the summer, New York Times) there was a twitter feed with things like: “SnoopDogg said 4 days ago – Ooooowee Machete is a smash! The Homie Danny Trejo did his thing! ” [...]