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Feb
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6th |
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Saturday, October 18, 2008
Location: San Mateo County Event Center | 2495 S. Delaware Street | San Mateo, CA 94403 | More Info (PDF)
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Jan
Wed
27th |
Monsoon brings Climate Change Testimonies to the heart of Copenhagen
Jokes about climate change may not always garner lasting belly aches, but let’s face it, they tend to be more captivating then scatter diagrams and pie charts. So when the UN decided to collaborate with Monsoon for COP, we wanted to build an application that would be fun and interactive; something even Al Gore would appreciate.
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Dec
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3rd |
let the touch-tweeting beginI admit it; I wasn’t among the first on the twitter blog wagon. I put if off, for no good reason really; just like everyone else I haven’t quite perfected the art of bending the space-time continuum to my advantage. Then in the summer of 2008, I bought myself an iPhone and dove thumb-first into twitter. |
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Sep
Thu
3rd |
Your kid’s future at your fingertips
Monsoon Company collaborated with US News and HP to create a touch-centric Adobe AIR application for America’s Top 100 Colleges. The application provides a fun, interactive way to discover the best National Universities and Liberal Arts Colleges. Being a boutique consultancy that is focused on touch software, we are always excited to see how touch is evolving in education and e-learning amongst other verticals! Get the US News app here. |
Productivity Myth# 1 "A short email is faster than a phone call"
I’m overwhelmed by the number of debates that focus on how many times you check email. Personal Productivity Guru’s can’t get enough of it! What works for me is the “5 minute knock ‘em out” rule (who ever came up with the 15 second or the 1 minute rule, slap em silly and move on. It never works!). If you can handle a task by email in 5 minutes….I mean handle it completely without the need for continual debates, do it. About 30% of my emails fall into this category. For the remainder, just do what works best for you and stop listening to productivity guru’s that are begging for bragging rights on buzzwords! Check your email 3 times or 5 times or 10 times a day. Just try not to be an iPhone whore. When you’re at the gym, leave your phone/pda behind and if it gets too tough to use the dial-based-iPod, disable your internet. Do what ever it takes to discipline yourself to focus on working out and not worrying about sales or marketing or execution. |
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Aug
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31st |
Personal Productivity - Note to self
Q: You haven’t called me in ages. |
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Jul
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3rd |
The Music Reactable - now, we just need some Paul Oakenfold in the mix ;-> |
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Jun
Tue
23rd |
Is impulse shopping dead? That's what Alice said!Today I had a chance to play with Alice (Who the heck is Alice?…my wife asks).
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| John Hodgman (“I’m a PC”) talks to the US President |
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Jun
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2nd |
The Aircraft Black Box - powered by Twitter?My heart goes out to the friends and families of those who were lost in AirFrance Flight 447….I found out pretty early about the incident via someone’s retweet on Twitter. With the little I’ve followed the story, I know it’s going to be a long time till authorities recover the blackbox, if at all. Once they do, the little black box might be their only hope to figure out what happened. With all the technology we have access to, why is it so difficult to track where an aircraft went missing? I don’t mean to write a business plan for American Airlines and I feel kinda morbid writing this post but what if we had Twitter inside the Black Box for every airplane? What if automatic status messages were posted for each flight? We’ve managed to get WiFi 35,000 feet above ground - what’s the hold up? I know what you’re thinking - downtime! (sorry @ev). But trust me guys, by the time this technology actually gets considered, Twitter would be ready to handle it! Think about it: - each time these sophisticated engines do a status check, a tweet is automatically posted Not only could the ground flight controllers get early warning signs, potentially helping them guide the aircraft to safety but if there is an unfortunate tragedy like flight 447, at least hundreds wouldn’t be left wondering where the aircraft disappeared. In addition to raising airline safety standards, wouldn’t it just be cool to follow some one’s flight?….full-on with maps and status updates? I don’t know what the logistics are but I do know that the tiny “powered by twitter” symbol could potentially lead us to the black box or maybe just eliminate the need for one.
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