Category Archives: 2. New Media Trends

Concept Game Design

I worked on this concept for an old school platformer that is set in a diner. The idea was to develop a game that could be played through as an interaction between the gamer and a song. Unfortunately the band who put out the song (my band:) had an epi… Continue reading

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Enterprise 2.0 Boston

I just got back from a great trip to Boston. I attended the Enterprise 2.0 conference and gave a talk on the “Purpose Driven Organization” You can watch the video here: http://www.informationweek.com/thebrainyard/e2-boston-2011
Deb Lavoy of Open T… Continue reading

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How to encrypt your Dropbox files until Dropbox wakes the f*ck up

The file storage and sharing service Dropbox has been in the news much of late because of incidents in which user account security was compromised.
The latest happened just this past Sunday: a programming error left every single Dropbox user account… Continue reading

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Video Conferencing – Out of the Boardroom

VC – Out of the Boardroom – Ipad 2 to Corporate
We’ve been taking some time to find a way tp get video conferencing out of the boardroom. Sounds like Skype yeah? Well the point is to get your Skype or whatever to connect with the corporate. Turns… Continue reading

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Why Groupon Is Poised For Collapse

Editor’s note:This guest post is part of an in-depth series looking at the daily deal industry written by Rocky Agrawal, an entrepreneur who has worked on local products since 1995.  Read Part I, Part II, and Part III also.  He blogs at reDesi… Continue reading

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Why Groupon Is Poised For Collapse

Editor’s note:This guest post is part of an in-depth series looking at the daily deal industry written by Rocky Agrawal, an entrepreneur who has worked on local products since 1995.  Read Part I, Part II, and Part III also.  He blogs at reDesi… Continue reading

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The Innovation Unit

The “Innovation Unit” is designed to be:

an Incubation Centre for running small scale proof of concept initiatives with early adopters in DFAIT
a centre of expertise – maintaining strong ties with the private sector, other government … Continue reading

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Purpose or Perish: Engagement is Just a Side Effect

I’m heading down to the E 2.0 Conference in Boston to give a talk on Collaboration, public engagement and the purpose driven organization. The talk is shaping up pretty nicely but I keep trying to come up with a good analogy for the ‘shape ‘ of a… Continue reading

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Congress Members Produce 30% Fewer Tweets After Weinergate [INFOGRAPHIC]

On the evening of May 27, Rep. Anthony Weiner of New York accidentally posted a lewd photo to Twitter, deleted it and claimed that his Twitter account had been hacked. Two weeks later, we’re still embroiled in what is now known as Weinergate, as e… Continue reading

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Congress Members Produce 30% Fewer Tweets After Weinergate [INFOGRAPHIC]

On the evening of May 27, Rep. Anthony Weiner of New York accidentally posted a lewd photo to Twitter, deleted it and claimed that his Twitter account had been hacked. Two weeks later, we’re still embroiled in what is now known as Weinergate, as e… Continue reading

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