My post of a cat playing with an iPad was a placeholder until the initial hype died down and more reasoned reviews started coming in. Lee Wilson, President of PCI Education, wrote a very cogent post titled iPad for Education Revisited that praises the iPad’s value as a media consumption and media organization tool, with [...]
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Digital media vision guide, product designer-developer, and reputed Brooklyn Blogfather.
Cat Meets iPad
No way around it this is a silly cat video, but it’s worth it (thanks Ecks & Gizmodo). Backstory: I decided to wait for the initial product shakeout and a v2 release of the iPad before buying one. After seeing this I wish I’d gotten in line early and unless you’re allergic, I bet you [...]
When Toys & Virtual Worlds Collide
When the annual New York Toy Fair and the virtual world conference Engage Expo filled the Jacob Javit’s Center during the same week in mid-February, the two events showcased more than any one person could absorb. Fortunately Warren Buckleitner (Childrens Technology Review) hosted an informal round-table where 18 industry experts talked frankly about the best [...]
Three Billion Customers and Counting
How would you like access to three billion customers? That’s the promise of the newly announced Wholesale Applications Community formed by telcom operators including América Móvil, AT&T, Bharti Airtel, China Mobile, China Unicom, Deutsche Telekom, KT, Mobilkom Austria Group, MTN Group, NTT DoCoMo, Orange, Orascom Telecom, Softbank Mobile, Telecom Italia, Telefónica, Telenor Group, Telia Sonera, [...]
Naturally Speaking
We used voice to text, text to voice and semantic data analysis successfully on two products for Pearson Education a few years ago — AMP Reading and Quick Reads — which rocked, technically and commercially. But successful though they were, as products for middle-school kids there was professional but not personal relevance. Finally, these technologies [...]
Augmenting Reality Before Breakfast
The panel discussion on Augmented Reality I moderated for Sobel Media’s executive breakfast series was eye-opening — and not just because the early hour allowed for watching the sun rise down Central Park South or Bouchon Bakery’s excellent java augmentation (though the latter surely helped). Before we seated the panel, Esquire’s Creative Director David Curcurito [...]
Screen Time or Face Time?
Are you seeing less of your kids these days? According to a new study from the Kaiser Family Foundation that was reported in The New York Times this morning in If Your Kids Are Awake, They’re Probably Online, the average young American spends practically every waking minute — except for the time in school — [...]
Building Online Community
Building online community is both central and tangential to my work — doing it well is mission critical, but when I hand off a finished product it’s usually my product manager’s or client’s responsibility to take the next step. Still, I get questions and have many myself about what works and what doesn’t, which is [...]
UC Berkeley Study: Gameplay Shown to Raise Kids IQ
Dr. Silvia Bunge, director of the Bunge Cognitive Control and Development Laboratory at UC Berkeley, uses behavioral and brain imaging techniques to examine how we control our thoughts and actions to make them consistent with our internal goals. In a recent study reported by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman in their Newsweek blog NurtureShock, kids [...]
From Nursery Rhyme to Hit iPhone App
Speaking at Warren Buckleitner’s Dust or Magic conference a few weeks ago, Caroline Hu Flexer talks about how her company Duck Duck Moose created an Apple Staff Favorite iPhone Appfrom a nursery rhyme and how a 2 year old inspired some of their best work. In their brief existence, Duck Duck Moose has developed three [...]
How to Tweet Like Guy Kawasaki
Guy Kawasaki’s twittering puts my occasional chirps to shame and if you follow his tweet-stream, you have to wonder how he has time to do anything else. A few weeks ago the American Express Open Forum for Small Business published an interview with Guy that tips his hand. Here are some of his secrets: Question: [...]
Online Legal Research & Resources
In an effort to keep my legal bills in check (sorry Heidi, Jeffrey, I love you but…) I’ve found a few online resources with plenty of examples to study as a basis for legal draftsmanship. Tech Agreements and Onecle both provide access to the actual agreements used in over 500,000 transactions covering many different industries [...]
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Using Social Media and Game Mechanics Improve Learning
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Join me on February 28th
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New Sites and Projects
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$20 Million in 7 Minutes
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App Camp 2011 Videos
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Using Social Media and Game Mechanics Improve Learning
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