Daily Music
We Were Promised Jetpacks – It’s Thunder And It’s Lightning
We Were Promised Jetpacks is an indie rock band from Edinburgh, Scotland, comprising Adam Thompson (vocals, guitar), Michael Palmer (guitar), Sean Smith (bass) and Darren Lackie (drums). The band’s debut album, These Four Walls, was released on 15 June 2009 on Fat Cat Records. I recently just came across them while I was digging through [...]
Sufjan Stevens – Vesuvius
The Age of Adz (pronounced odds) is Sufjan Stevens’ first full-length collection of original songs since 2005’s civic pop opus Illinois. This new album is probably his most unusual, first, for its lack of conceptual underpinnings, and second, for its preoccupation with Sufjan himself. Vesuvius off of The Age of Adz pulls you in right [...]
Lemolo
Lemolo followed me on twitter this last week and I noticed they were local to Seattle so I decided to check them out. When I first hit play I was honestly skeptical when a extremely simplistic electronic beat started. In hopes that it would get better I waited to see if it would build but [...]
@NickBMartin3 @katemorris let's meet up in Bellevue should be neutral for everyone - Nick you get to pick the place
Mobile Web Apps vs Native Apps
Have you ever wondered what the difference of Mobile Web Applications (the web pages that people can find using a browser on their mobile phone) and Native Applications (the apps that you have to download from and app store) here’s an infographic that will help you understand the differences. The infographic itself is designed not [...]
Read MoreNFC breeding a new class of “tangible” applications
The past couple of weeks we’ve released a variety of scenarios on how NFC can be used. Today I wanted to show some examples beyond mobile payments where you can see NFC in action. Instead of just looking at a small screen and pressing buttons, NFC is breeding a new class of “tangible” mobile [...]
Read MoreHow to use NFC and 2dbarcodes for Events
Earlier I posted on the possibilities of NFC and today we’ve got the first of five examples of how NFC can be used in a real-life campaign. One of the great ways to leverage NFC and 2D barcode technology is to pair them together and provide your customers with a frictionless mobile experience. Today we [...]
Read MoreNFC Beyond Mobile Payments
With the recent release of NFC on the Tag platform I’ve received a variety of different people asking what NFC can be used for. They usually understand the connection for NFC and mobile payments but when it comes to NFC services, marketing, and gadgets it can get a little foggy. Here are some examples how [...]
Read MoreMobile Trends for 2012
With the New Year just around the corner, I though it fitting to put together some of my thoughts on what’s next for mobile. Gamification of the mundane: One of the biggest mistakes that mobile marketers currently make is the quest to invent instead of innovate. Inventing a mobile experience that tries to create new [...]
Read More2dbarcode Art Installation, Tag We’re It
2dbarcodes are becoming more prevalent in our day to day lives however, marketers and individuals constantly challenge their usefulness. I can’t disagree with people questioning the 2dbarcode space especially when so many of the back end experiences that are just pointless. But here’s the catch. Everyone that say’s I’ll wait for image matching, NFC, audio [...]
Read MoreMobile Marketing on the Rise
From 2009 to 2010 mobile marketing has increased by 75% to almost $1.5 billion. This figure is expected to rise in two years to 2.3 billion almost doubling in size. If you’re wondering why advertisers and marketers are investing at mobile just look at the difference in engagement between mobile and PC where users are [...]
Read MoreMobile Commerce Revolution
The use of mobile devices is changing user behavior on how people search, interact and purchase consequently creating a mobile commerce revolution. From mobile devices consumers can compare, search reviews, talk to their friends, receive coupons, purchase in-store or online. With this new powerful tools traditional as well as online companies are going to have [...]
Read MoreiPhone Photography
After writing about the WVIL Concept, a detachable SLR camera lens, I started to the question how much longer will quick shot and SLR cameras be around? The mobile camera has advanced so much over the years, you can now download, edit and distribute your pics to the web with a click of a button. [...]
Read MoreWVIL Concept: Detachable SLR Camera Lens
Cameras have been changing rapidly over the years and the one that is seeing the most innovation is the camera on your phone. Artefact design team is combining the connectivity and application technology of contemporary smartphones with interchangeable DSLR camera tech. Concept Camera: The WVIL from Artefact on Vimeo.
Read More
Feeds
