Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

Are you mobile friendly?

Most web campaigns seem to focus on the desktop user, where there is gradual trend away from desktop based web surfing to hand-held devices (smart-phones, portable Internet enabled gaming devices and PDAs) and lounge-room based devices. Over the last month alone mobile-based web surfing has risen from 0.6% of all traffic to around 1.6% of all traffic.

Cyanogen Adventures

I’ve had my HTC Magic (32B) for a month now, and figured it was time to push it a little.  Cyanogen seems to be the popular choice for this, so I went with it.  I had a very painless experience doing this, and this is how:
First, get hold of the stable Cyanogen image.  I used [...]

An effective social media campaign

It’s not all that often that an advertising campaign grabs my attention and actually gets me curious – it’s even less often that I see a campaign that makes effective use of social media. Even more rare than both those things, a campaign I actually feel compelled to blog about – today these things happened.

This ain't no fad

Recently I’ve noticed a lot of commetry on Social Media/Networking being a “fad” – It’s pretty obvious to me, watching and participating in the development of electronic communications over the last twenty years that it is in no way a fad, it’s a logical evolution in the way we communicate and socialise.

Waving Web

Google itself says “A wave is equal parts conversation and document.”. I’d personally prefer to think of it as a live document, and not psuedo-live. It is live because a Wave can be edited by multiple people, simultaniously and all changes can be dispersed to all users.