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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 [...]
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For more than a year the rumors have been swirling, reaching a frenzy each time Apple gathered the faithful for their semi-annual product announcements.
Finally the future has come. This morning the curtains parted, revealing Moses with the Tablets Jobs with the iPad and the crowds oooohhhed and again, the future looks good for developers, publishers, [...]
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 led [...]
Otherwise sensible people already differ on the meaning of “reality,” so when you preface that word with “augmented” the fun really starts.
Never one to shy from what’s new and what’s next I’ve accepted an invitation from Bill Sobel to moderate a Sobel Media breakfast panel on Thursday January 21st with four New Yorker’s using AR [...]
I’ll admit to being guilty of what I’m about to trash, then I reformed. I thought then that I was ahead of my time. Now, I’m thinking maybe not. Here’s the story:
A few years ago, after one swerve to many during my then daily 2-hour commute, I stopped using my mobile phone to talk or [...]
Apple Tablet Rumors Run Wild according to the Gadget Lab at Wired.com and like so many others I hope this time the rumors are true. According to Wired:
“The most detailed report comes from Financial Times, whose sources claim the product demonstration will take place Tuesday, Jan. 26 at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts [...]
Many have decried the lack of a Flash plug-in for the iPhone and for coders learning Objective C has been a right of passage. But that was then, this is now. In a game-changing move, Adobe recently announced that when Flash Professional CS5 ships it will export native ActionScript apps to the iPhone.
“The tooling update [...]
I have not disappeared from the planet, I’ve just been heads-down working on business development, social media projects and prototyping several exciting new products for the consumer market. More details coming soon.
In the meantime, the summer has yielded a few lessons about project management. About how work expands to fill the time allotted; how several [...]
Video of the world’s first mobile Augmented Reality browser, initially for the Android platform, from Layer Technologies in the Netherlands. So cool that it makes adding an Android to my quiver very tempting.
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First Jobs and Woz visited Xerox PARC, got the idea for a graphical interface, which in 1984 led to the Macintosh. Then Bill Gates got into the act and Windows was born. Some twenty-five later, Apple brought us the iPhone and iTouch, the first mass-market devices with touch screens. Then along came H.P., Dell, Intel [...]
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Alright, maybe not *completely* different but it’s Spring and a good reorganization was long overdue. The work is ongoing, but so far so good: my blog is back on top now with a sharper focus, access to the archives has been restored, and our consulting, game development and social media service offerings — formerly combined [...]
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Join us this Friday for a deep dive into marketing and Web 2.0 technology at The Executive Summit: Marketing & Technology-the Next Frontier hosted by Pace University’s Lubin School of Business. Click here for more information and to register.
According to the program notes “This has been the most discussed area of marketing and yet it [...]
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