While there’s all sorts of chatter about how Apple is (or isn’t) extending its reach in the consumer electronics space with its shiny new OS and a slew of rumored new i-devices, I think there’s an at least equally strong strategy in play to become a much bigger player in the business space. As someone [...]
Is The Heist the a future for advertising?
Want a glimpse of the future of advertising? If you’ve got an iPhone, a thorough understanding of the new game, The Heist, may change the way you think about media. Now sticking an ad in a game is nothing new — and there are no apparent ads in The Heist. So what’s the biggie? Shell [...]
Audio: Hip to be Square? How disruptive is the new iPad cash register?
At yesterday’s TechCrunch Disrupt, mobile payments purveyor Square announced a pilot product with two key components: Square Register as a POS replacement for merchants and Square Card Case as a mobile payments wallet for consumers. This is something I’ve been thinking about for a long time — how mobile payments finally fuse online and offline [...]
Smart travel
Although we’ve occasionally indulged in some luxury travel (usually when I was on a YPO-sponsored trip), in general I try to find a balance between being extraordinarily cheap and not being in danger of robbery, vermin or disease. I’m known to stay in a nearby hotel to avoid an inflated conference rate and to spend [...]
Fallout of the new book model?
Even without new experiments like Seth Godin’s Domino Project, that will push the limits of what an e-book is, there is already fallout from the fungible nature of an medium. Take the email I just got from Amazon:
Don't believe the hype: DODOcase
Upshot: It’s a gorgeous product that is the perfect case for people who don’t use their iPads. There are a couple digital businesses that were contenders for the first hypebusting post, but I’ve been meaning to write a DODOcase review, and I was reminded by today’s fawning report on the $49 iPad case maker on [...]
Grooveshark provides this blog's soundtrack
Image via Wikipedia If you know me at all, you know I’m music-obsessed. That’s why any post I give a damn about has a soundtrack. I’ve been using the Yahoo Media Embedder for some time, but it’s a dangerous toy. While it allows me to upload tracks I own to the blog, it leaves them [...]
The (currently) lost opportunity with iAds
So I imagine, like me, many of you are buying your new iPhones today or at least waiting with bated breath for the New World of the iOS 4.0. Last week, I followed the WWDC keynote, and despite all the gadget and gizmo talk, there was one thing that stuck in my head. In fact, [...]
In which I enter the Brave New World of iPad computing
For the last couple months, I’ve taken great pride in pontificating that Apple had finally created a product in which I had zero interest. I sneered that the iPad was either a mere giant iPhone sans phone or a primary computer for digital idiots. I am typing this entry on my new iPad, purchased Saturday [...]
How I manage information overload
If I’ve had a little extra bliss in recent weeks, it’s because I finally feel like I’ve mastered control of the ridiculous amounts of information I choose to and not to ingest on a daily basis. I Tweeted about it a while back and instantly got numerous responses from folks wanting to know the secret. [...]
Testing new plug-in Apture
I’m trying out a new WordPress plug-in that enhances link content. Apture, which I discovered via someone I read on Twitter, is supposed to quickly bring in outside data and media. I, Mike Orren, will be trying it out in my next few posts. (In other words, this post is just a goofy test and [...]