One of the leitmotifs of the fictionalized biopic “The Social Network” concerns Mark Zuckerberg‘s inability/unwillingness to commercialize the burgeoning behemoth that he and his peers have conceptualized and coded. If that inability/unwillingness to imagine the commercial opportunities of Facebook were true as portrayed in the film, the CEO has certainly overcome his shyness of the […]
The Midterms Are Here! The Midterms Are Here!
News sources, pundits, entertaining commentators, irritating commentators, restoration rallies, and $3.5 billion in spending have all been leading up to this day. You’ve probably made up your mind and/or cast your votes, or you will be doing both in the next few hours. We want to join in the chorus to Get Out The Vote, […]
Millennials And Their Smart(er)phones
Perhaps the most influential gift of the Baby-Boomer Generation is the consciousness we all have of our own generations, be they the Quiet Generation, Generation X, Y, or Millennial. The language of generations and of the ways they communicate have become a part of everyone’s lexicon (Baby Boomers using ‘twitter’ as a verb, for example). […]
Mobile Applications Make A Viable Mobile Economy
The researchers and pollsters at Neilson.com have recently released some statistics that show how important portable devices, especially smartphones, have created a growing industry in themselves and in the software and applications that run them. Working through our email is by far the most common activity, taking up about 40% of our mobile/online time (Besides […]
Toshiba Reinvents Tablet To Tweak The Portable Market
We discussed the Apple iPad a couple of months ago as the product that could transform expectations of the tablet/portable/cloud computing world. Well, eighty days into the product launch, and 3 million iPads later, the market is soon to get another competitor: the Toshiba Libretto. Neither is/will be the first into the market, but Apple’s […]
#Tech: iPad Indeed Inspires Nonprofit Community
Just before Apple‘s iPad first launched in early April, the MKCREATIVE blog presented a two-part discussion of how the device specifically and the advent of a truly functioning tablet market/community generally should be taken seriously by the nonprofit community. The iPad’s convenience as a communications tool, we argued, meant that nonprofits and mission-based companies could, […]
#Tech: The Apple iPad is Released, And Mobile Computing Grows That Bit More Important
A few weeks ago we posted a two-part preview on Apple’s latest device, the iPad, and (perhaps more importantly) how such a device will move the computing world towards portable devices and ‘cloud computing.’ Well, the day has arrived, and the iPad is on the launching pad. Stores will be presenting it Saturday, so get […]
A review of iPad reviews (Pt. 2)
Yesterday we saw some of the challenges, criticisms, and bawdy jokes tossed at the iPad. Today we turn to some of the reviews and ideas that could well make the iPad the kind of ‘game-changer’ that even Windows users expect of Apple.