Last Thursday Apple announced a new way for textbooks to be both published and distributed to students. It is another step in disruptive practices that continues to erode a publishing model that has existed for five hundred years. Digital is here to stay. It will continue to change the way...

My children started attending Dayton Grade School this past week and to my surprise my son's class provides an iPad for every student. Even today with the proliferation of mobile technology, classrooms across the US run the full spectrum when it comes to technology. It was refreshing to...

The big news today from Appup Elements in Seattle is Linux and LiMo Foundation's combined platform from Linux's Meego and LiMo's work called Tizen. The platform will have the full support of co-chairs Intel and Samsung.

We knew something was...

I first learned about the film Connected through watching the filmmaker's interview with Brian Solis. The film was created by Tiffany Shlain who is also the Webby Awards founder. Watching that sparked my post on Egocentric or Allocentric Connectedness. Since...

Philanthropy and charity look much different today than they did even a decade ago. This was my take away from participating in SOBCon NW this past weekend in Portland Oregon. Community builder, brand strategist Liz Strauss and Entrepreneur Terry St. Marie envisioned the conference...

We look to movies or science fiction novels to foster our dreams of what technology may some day offer. Be it James Bond or Star Wars, we let our imaginations go to where devices may someday equip us with tools our ancestors would never even have...

Last Saturday I watched Brian Solis interview filmmaker Tiffany Shlain, the founder of Webby Awards, about her new film Connected.

Near the end, Solis made a thought-provoking statement -- that our connections today are greatly centered around ourselves in an egosystem, because...

Every time I come back from a tech conference I'm asked, "what was the most impressive thing you saw?" Traveling to CES in Vegas this year, I kept that question in mind as I walked the enormous floor (nearly 2,500 exhibitors). As a mobile app evangelist I had...

It was exactly 1 year ago that we got our first taste of Intel's AppUp Center when they launched the beta store at CES 2010. It was received with mixed reviews and nobody really knew what to expect from it.

What a difference a year makes.

Today you...

Last year while attending CES (The International Consumer Electronics show) in Las Vegas I was a bit taken back by all the devices in glass cases. When a new gadget was actually out on display and available for play, you still often to work pretty hard to find...

What would change if those who were the experts in their field took a week out of their time to teach and inspire a handful of people?

Seth Godin this next week will be taking 12 individuals through a week of leverage also known as a

Growing up I learned a great deal about how things worked in the physical world from working outdoors with my father. Most days we would have at least a few hours to work on our property using a bright orange Kubota tractor. My job was linchpin keeper. If...

What goes through a marketer's mind that makes them hire a booth babe? I can just imagine. "Our product is a bit boring so let's throw some sex at them." In the long run it does not pay off. It is a leftover from traditional advertising. It cracks me up...

Netbooks are all over CES like pinstripes on Munchkins. Everywhere I look here are tiny little rigs with awkward little keyboards and track pads the size of an Equal packet.

I need to be honest, up until about a month ago I was entirely unaware of netbooks, itty-bitty computers designed...

Every time I head to a conference or trade show I have that first impulse to make detailed lists of talks to see or booths to visit. It is easy to quickly build the trip in to an itinerary and rigid schedule. I have learned from past trips that the...