• 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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  • Game Changer

    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 [...]

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  • Blog Alert

    Recently Google, the Joan Ganz Cooney Center, MacArthur, and Common Sense Media started a promising new blog called Breakthrough Learning in the Digital Age, inviting Scott Traylor (CEO/founder of 360Kid), Lisa Guernsey (author and director at New America Foundation), James Paul Gee (serious game advocate, author and professor at Arizona State) and Gary Knell [...]

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  • Identity Crisis?

    Ever since embracing social media and being asked to coach my clients on its finer points my starting supposition was  that personal and business, politics and brand identity should be separate. OK, call me old school but as my friend and former townie Lee Wilson writes, “Growing up in New England I was taught that [...]

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  • Billions and Billions Served

    At the rate applications sales for the iPhone and iPod Touch are going, pretty soon Apple is going to be laying claim to McDonalds’ motto “Billions and Billions Served.” Key drivers: over 50 million iPhones and iPond touches have been sold to date, and there are over 125,000 registered developers in 77 countries around the [...]

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  • Studying the Real World to Make a Virtual One

    As part of the research for a new virtual world project this summer I worked with the Pulitzer-winning naturalist and Harvard professor emeritus Dr. E. O. Wilson, naturalist-author-guide Peter Alden and Don Henley’s Walden Woods Project on Biodiversity Day. For the second time in eleven years more than 100  scientists, professors and amateur naturalists gathered [...]

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  • Contrary to Published Reports…

    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 [...]

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  • A Small (virtual) World for a Large (real) Market

    As reported in the New York Times’ Technology Bits blog: “Rick Goodman, who developed the popular real-time strategy game Age of Empires, is now focusing on a virtual world where, instead of re-enacting historical battles, Chinese children can learn English. Alex Wang, the company’s chief executive and co-founder, said the idea grew out of [...]

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  • One and a Half Billion Served

    As reported on 148 Apps: “Apple today announced that the iTunes App Store has served over 1.5 billion app downloads worldwide. This comes less than 3 months since the Apple announced the 1 billionth download in April. The App Store continues to show amazing growth and has seen over 100,000 developers sign up for the [...]

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  • Trolling for Leeches, Netting Moths & 4th of July Fireflies

    My fireworks this 4th of July were following naturalists E. O. Wilson, Peter Alden and 150 others around with a video camera as they tried to identify at least 2009 species within the confines of Walden Woods – the towns of Concord, Carlisle and Lincoln, Massachusetts on Walden Biodiversity Day.
    We won’t know how many species [...]

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  • 9 Games-Per-Second

    The servers were too busy to accommodate me by the time I tried to log on to the Woodrow Wilson Center’s conference server last week, but not too jammed to download the slides and white paper from the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Children’s Television Workshop that were being presented and are linked below.
    The Cliff [...]

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  • The First Augmented Reality Browser

    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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