Category Archives: internet

Social Media Ghettos.

Written by Peter. Posted on November 3, 2009. Filed under brand, business, consumer, interactive, internet, kids, technology, trend. No comments.
Social Media Ghettos.
I’ve noted before that the vast, competing social networking sites seem to be aligning to members based on socio-economic status. The Globe And Mail’s Lisan Jutras continues the topic: Last year, Facebook overtook MySpace in numbers of members. If you are like me, you made the switch because information was better organized on Facebook, and [...]

Come On, Apple.

Written by Peter. Posted on November 3, 2009. Filed under annunciation, brand, business, consumer, design, flash, interactive, internet, technology, trend, user interface, work. No comments.
Come On, Apple.
I saw this described as passive aggressive warfare this morning.  Adobe’s taking the gloves off re: Apple’s mobile Flash support (or lack thereof).  Seems they’re taking a lead from the ‘Death to IE6′ shame campaign also being waged very publicly.

GeoCities No More.

Written by Peter. Posted on October 26, 2009. Filed under annunciation, brand, business, design, interactive, internet, technology, trend, user interface. No comments.
GeoCities No More.
Never liked GeoCities much, but it did attract a pretty wide audience back in the day.  Yahoo shut it down today, after more than 10 years of crappy websites.  Good article in today’s LA Times.

Keywords Ain’t All That.

Written by Peter. Posted on September 22, 2009. Filed under interactive, internet, technology, trend. No comments.
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The long-touted SEO Keyword is officially useless. From the Google Webmaster Central Blog, “Google does not use the keywords meta tag in page ranking.” Descriptions and relevant content, on the other hand – what a concept!

Apple Tablet Rumor 543.

Written by Peter. Posted on August 28, 2009. Filed under consumer, interactive, internet, technology, trend, user interface. No comments.
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Mmmm, delicious: According to rumors, Apple is in the final stages of developing the Apple wet dream, a 10-inch tablet allegedly running the iPhone OS…

MIT Personas.

Written by Peter. Posted on August 24, 2009. Filed under consumer, design, interactive, internet, technology, trend, user interface. No comments.
MIT Personas.
Pretty cool web presence visualization piece from MIT.   It scans the web for all artifacts relating to your name, and generates an interesting chart based on what it finds.  I am, apparently, partially criminal in the online world.

Exponential Times.

Written by Peter. Posted on July 30, 2009. Filed under business, consumer, interactive, internet, politics, technology, trend, vids. No comments.
Exponential Times.
Cool, quick video that speaks to the explosive growth and speed of adoption associated w. technology.

CSS Fu.

Written by Peter. Posted on July 6, 2009. Filed under advertising, annunciation, business, design, interactive, internet, projects, technology, work. No comments.
CSS Fu.
Our friend Travis in Breaux Bridge has released CSS Fu – a batch CSS Gallery submitter. It’s still in beta, and submissions are currently free – check it out!

Bon Voyage, Jonah.

Written by Peter. Posted on July 2, 2009. Filed under annunciation, business, interactive, internet, orleans, work. No comments.
Bon Voyage, Jonah.
My business partner of more than two years, Jonah Langenbeck, is making a big career move, recently accepting the Interactive Media Manager position at the National WWII Museum. We partnered back in 2007 and spent the last two years working (sometimes frantically) on dozens of websites and interactive assets for various local and national clients. [...]

Fu*k All from PSFK.

Written by Peter. Posted on June 30, 2009. Filed under advertising, brand, business, consumer, design, interactive, internet, technology, trend. No comments.
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Great stuff from George Parker about the devaluation of original content and labor in the age of social media. He references LinkedIn’s new wage for translators ($0) – reported in the NY Times.