Agencies keep missing the Mobile boat
At 2012's SXSW, my first, I ran into some old colleagues from my time in the world of advertising. Naturally, after reminiscing, the conversation moved onto what everyone was working on. Mobile of course. I wanted to understand how agencies were making the transition from print, broadcasting, websites and banners to mobile and the intimate small screen which consumers carried with them everywhere. Sadly, two of my colleagues both carrying the hefty title of Chief
Facebook revamps mobile app
Facebook recently launched new apps for both the iPhone and the iPad and while most people are singing its praises for being faster than the previous versions, a look under the hood shows real enhancements and might have further reaching repuercussions in the mobile space and on an argument that's been raging for years now and shows no signs of slowing. Facebook's old app was built in HTML5. You know, the browser-based markup language that's supposed
Apple wins patent suit vs. Samsung.
On Friday, the tech world was buzzing over the news that Apple won (to the tune of $1billion) its lawsuit against Samsung for patent infringement. The jury found that Samsung did, in fact, infringe upon and violate many of Apple's patents. It is well known that patent-happy Apple has patented everything from the "pinch and zoom" motion consumers use to navigate mobile devices to the 'bounce-back" action that the scrollbars make on the iPhone and
Why Square-bucks (Starbucks & Square) makes sense
Need I say it again? Everyone's going mobile. At last year's Renegade Craft Fair in San Francisco, I wrote about how Square was changing the way that independent artisans and craft makers did business by using the mobile payment service to accept credit cards and sell their goods. One year later, its not uncommon to see the handy Square card reader accepted by small vendors all over the Bay Area. And no one has any
The Politics of Mobile
Unless you're living under a rock, you know that we here in the US are in an election year. In November, we'll go to the polls to determine whether or not Barack Obama will be assigned to a second term, or Mitt Romney will ascend the the presidential throne. Arguably, Obama was the first president to use the power of technology to not only deliver his message to a younger, more technically savvy audience, but
