There is a lot to communicate in modern marketing and our methods haven’t kept up with the times. I often find myself giving trying to solve problems by phone and email; methods which turn out to be unnecessarily time consuming and open to miscommunication I want to show a different way to communicate analytics actions to a client. I use a tool called Screenr. It is a simple desktop video capture service, like a Flip camera for your desktop. Using Screenr I find I can very quickly communicate and educate around specific topics. It is perfect for clearly showing clients how to take control of analytics. Read more By Stephen Croome for EConsultancy, 01 Sept 2011.
Tag Archives: Technology
Top 10 google earth finds
Columbus and Magellan had it rough. Exploration these days is quite literally an armchair activity, as high-resolution satellite images and tools like Google Earth make it possible for anyone with an Internet connection to pore over the globe with a fine-toothed comb. There are entire online communities devoted to finding and cataloging the most unusual locales worldwide, creating 21st century atlases of minutiae. It isn’t just for hobbyists, either — Google Earth has helped scientists find previously unknown ruins and police locate clandestine marijuana fields. Here are 10 of the most unusual discoveries. Visit site By Dan Fletcher for Time Specials.
High tech schools: 7 innovative ways teachers are using tech in the classroom
Many schools across the country have rules about tech in the classroom, but they’re not the rules you might think. Teachers instruct students to take out their smartphones, to power up their iPads, and to log in to Twitter. Technology’s role in the classroom has been widely debated: does it simply feed an addiction to a mobile lifestyle, or does it give otherwise shy students a way to find their voices? A national survey released in April by Pearson Learning Solutions found that only “2 percent of college faculty members had used Twitter in class, and nearly half thought that doing so would negatively affect learning,” reported The New York Times. However, at the same time, a recent survey by the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth found that “98 percent of higher ed … Continue reading
Learn to be a coder!
Codecademy is the easiest way to learn how to code. It’s interactive, fun, and you can do it with your friends. Visit site
When to pull the plug on old software
The evolution of digital technology can be ruthless in its speed. Not only does it give birth at a frightening rate; it has a nasty habit of killing its elderly relatives. Take the latest release of Apple’s OS X operating system – Lion. This £21 Mac makeover adds more than 250 new features including an iPad-style app interface, wireless file sharing and a hugely expanded lexicon of finger-gnarling multi-touch gestures. But it removes Rosetta, the handy little code translation engine that enabled newer Intel-powered computers to run programs written for Apple’s older machines, which were built around Motorola/IBM PowerPC chips. Read more By By Iain Mackenzie for BBC News: Business, 12 August 2011.
How to put your logo in a QR code
After writing this post on somone hacking QR codes, Hack A Day commenters came out in full force posting some really cool links about modifying QR codes to include a logo. I’ll fully admit I geeked out a little, but in the process I figured out some of the theory behind embedding logos in QR codes. After getting my hands on the ISO 18004 specification for QR codes, I decided to try embedding the Hack A Day skull & wrenches inside a QR code. The tools I used were Photoshop, this QR code generator, and Microsoft Paint (I’ve never seen a program to edit individual pixels that has a better UI, so don’t laugh). Read more By Brian Benchoff for Hack A Day, 16 August 2011.
Change the laws of physics and see what happens!
Ever wanted to discover the universe… Universe Sandbox lets you spawn massive stars, launch asteroids, and manipulate gravity with just a few clicks. Visit site
Technology is the new smoking
We’ve all been there; You’re at an outing or a dinner table with friends but itching to check your email or Facebook or Twitter or Instagram or Google+ or Yammer or what ever digital hit of serotonin you prefer. Have you ever “gone to the bathroom” in order to check email or come up with a socially appropriate excuse to pull out your smartphone just so you can check your @ replies on Twitter? Remember when the critical mass of smokers used to leave the table or meeting in groups to go indulge their habit? I straight up open my laptop at bars and parties, and then feel more guilty about that than drinking. A new British study released today backs up what we otherwise know intuitively, that Internet usage is … Continue reading
OOCSS, for great justice
Object-Oriented? CSS? I have to admit that when I first checked out out OOCSS, I guffawed. While it’s true that, at first blush, CSS does not have many of the traditional features of a genuine OO programming language, Nicole has been exploring ways in which CSS’ inheritance/cascade can be analogous to OO concepts. It’s taken me quite some time to come around. There are things in the OOCSS code base that seem to fly in the face of commonly-accepted CSS best practices. It is precisely this kind of resistance in the community that must have prompted Nicole to deliver her latest talk this year at Webstock, entitled Our Best Practices Are Killing Us (slides). Read more By Stephen Tudor for StevenTudor.com, 17 July 2011.
The new and improved way to create forms using HTML5
After 12 long years, the core language of the world wide web (HTML or Hyper Text Markup Language) is finally undergoing a major revision with the release of HTML5. Although the much anticipated version is still in beta, with no official launch date having been announced; HTML5 has web designers and programmers buzzing about its latest features. According to the W3C, new HTML5 features are aimed at improving support for multimedia like video embedding, providing for a better user experience and an easier time for programmers. Although HTML4 has been a huge success, (some even argue the most successful markup format to ever have been released) everyone in the Internet world has been patiently waiting while browsers update with the latest major revision to the core language. As … Continue reading