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Let’s Just Call It Mobility Week At aMediacirc.us

March 26, 2008 No comments yet

Here at aMediacirc.us, I tend to respond to things that are prevalent in the news. The number of posts about mobile this week is a direct reaction to the volume of news stories pertaining to mobile (I also have a love of mobile, maybe I just seek this stuff out).
I have a ton of [...]

The Mobility Is The Message (Part Two- The Whites)

March 25, 2008 No comments yet

Okay, so my reference to “the whites” in the title was simply a way to indulge my Lebowski fetish (if you don’t get the joke, I recommend going out and renting The Big Lebowksi, today). I am sorry to say that this post will contain no information about The Dude, Walter or Donnie. No, we [...]

The Mobility Is The Message

March 23, 2008 5 comments

Upon the completion of my master’s degree I swore that I would never repeat the much touted Mcluhanism, “The Medium Is The Message“. Since that time I have come to realize the phrase that I thought was mere puffery is actually deeply ingrained in the communications fabric of the 21st century. And so [...]

Two Weeks Of Travel and Marketing Dataportability

March 21, 2008 2 comments

I just returned from a long (but enjoyable and very valuable) two weeks of travel. It began at SXSW where I got to hang out with Rynda Laurel of Jet Set Studios, C.C Chapman of The Advanced Guard, John Swords and Giff Constable of The Electric Sheep Company, Mark Wallace of Wello, Kristin Cruscius (Kroosh) [...]

Google: The Web Is Your Facebook

March 6, 2008 2 comments

Here is a thought; when everyone has a blog (or something tantamount to a home base) and can easily push and pull data to applications of their choice (in a well structured web), will we even need Facebook?Here is another thought; I have often heard people refer to Facebook as the new AOL. Despite Facebook’s [...]

Passive Collection Of Presence And Activity

March 5, 2008 2 comments

By now, many marketers (and some consumers) are beginning to recognize the power of the social graph in regards to spreading word of mouth messaging. I get the sense that many equate the notion of the social graph solely with Facebook and other online social networks.
What if I were you tell you that the [...]

Google Continues To Gear You Up For Mobility

March 4, 2008 No comments yet

As the advertising/media world becomes more and more enamored with the mobile space, Google continues to provide innovative ways to enhance the mobile experience.
In America, one of the major barriers for many advertisers (and consumers) in the mobile space is connectivity. Well, Google has a solution.
Google Gears allowed us to take certain things [...]

Test Of ScribeFire/Geek Heaven

March 4, 2008 No comments yet

As I have written, in the past few weeks I have been incredibly busy and have not been posting as much as I would like to. I have a big pitch coming up and then I am headed to SxSW (on the 7th) and the iMedia Breakthrough Summit on the 16th.
Despite the fact that I [...]