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3/11/2012 · 2 min read

Can a Social Web of Things Keep TV Cords Connected

Sunday, March 11 11:00AM -12:00PMAlison Moore Sr VP, Digital Platforms HBOGilles BianRosa CEO FanhattanJack Flanagan VP Sales Bluefin Labs IncRhonda Lowry VP Emerging Social Web Technologies Turner Broadcasting What is Social TV? It’s currently in an evolutionary state…

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3/10/2012 · 3 min read

Designing for Content Management Systems

Saturday, March 10 12:30PM – 1:30PMJared Ponchot Creative Dir Lullabot Design is the conscious effort to impose a meaningful order. (Victor Papanek) CMS create ways to impose a meaningful order. How a CMS Thinks Contexts A context provides…

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3/10/2012 · 2 min read

The State of Browser Developer Tools

Saturday, March 10 – 9:30AM -10:30AMBrandon Satrom Developer Evangelist TelerikGarann Means JavaScript EngineerJoe Stagner Sr Program Manager Developer Technologies Mozilla CorporationMike Taylor Web Opener Opera Software Paul Irish Chrome Developer Advocate Google Inc Firebug was released in 2006…

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3/9/2012 · 2 min read

Effective Social Media Presence in Higher Ed

Friday, March 9 – 3:30PM – 4:30PMDeborah Maue Asst VP DePaul UniversityLiz Gross Dir of University Mktg & Comm University of Wisconsin-Waukesha This session was a core conversation – a room full of peole in higher education talking…

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3/9/2012 · 3 min read

Designing for Context

Friday, March 9 – 2:00PM – 3:00PMAndrew Crow VP, Experience Design GEBen Fullerton Director, User Experience Method Leah Buley Design Strategist IntuitNate Bolt Pres Bolt|PetersRyan Freitas Co-founder AOL/About.me Slides: http://dforc.org/ Design for different locations, environments and relationships and…

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3/9/2012 · 1 min read

South by Southwest Interactive 2012

It is once again that time of year for my to Austin, TX to attend the South by Southwest Interactive conference. I’ll be collecting notes from the various sessions I attend right here on this blog (category sxsw)…

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2/25/2012 · 4 min read

A CableCARD Update for the HTPC

A few months back I acquired an update for our HTPC. In order to watch digital channels (anything that isn’t available as an over-the-air network), I needed either a cable box, which I didn’t want to rent, or…

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12/19/2011 · 1 min read · 1 comment

Homemade Snowmaker

So as of right now, it doesn’t look like it’s going to be a white Christmas. If you really had your heart set on some snow, fear not. You can now make a run to the hardware store…

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11/28/2011 · 2 min skim · 11 comments

2011 Holiday Gift Guides

Well folks, it’s Cyber Monday again. You know what that means… it’s time for another iteration of my holiday geek gift guides. I started this quite a few years ago as a list of gift guides to help…

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10/14/2011 · 1 min read

Throwable Panoramic Ball Camera

This is a slick little gadget. It’s a little green ball with cameras mounted all over it. You toss it into the air, and it created a spherical panorama at the apex of your toss. I wonder how…

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10/8/2011 · 1 min read · 1 comment

Stateris

Are you tired of plain-old Tetris? Do simple square shapes bore you? Give Stateris a try.  

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8/29/2011 · 1 min read · 1 comment

Super Mario Brothers + Portal = Awesome

Take a the timeless classic video game of Mario Brothers, then add the innovative modern game Portal, and you get a great game that I’d love to play MariO. I hope they follow through with this mashup!  

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