Recently, Canada’s Canadian Radio-Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) approved the usage of metered, or “usage-based” internet. This effectively allows carriers to put a cap on how much bandwidth users may use, and charge basically however much they want for bandwidth after an allotted amount. In terms of the future of the internet as an open channel for …
Month: January 2011
NYC’s January Snowpocalypse
This past week, and ongoing up to now, NYC has been in the midst of a major snowpocalypse. Last week when the blizzard started at about midnight, I suited up and did a lap around the West Village with my camera.. here’s the scene.
Temple Emanu-El, NYC
Temple Emanu-El is the largest Jewish synagogue. This past weekend I had a chance to go inside for services.
What Do Users Want from Mobile Sites?
A quick re-post from Econsultancy today – they did a brief study on what users really want from a mobile site – and found out that it really depends on the type of site, and what the user is after. Some brief findings: Overall Web users prefer a mobile optimised site for shopping and browsing, …
Flying to Denali Basecamp
A long lost pic from a trip I took with my family to Alaska a few years ago – preparing to fly to drop off a package at basecamp at Denali in Alaska. I’m no pilot, but did enjoy sitting in the front row during our Talkeetna Air Taxi flight. We eventually landed on the …
Ongoing Playlist: Music Videos
Inevitably while surfing the web, I come across a lot of media – including music videos. Over the years I’ve been collecting an ongoing collection of interesting music videos in a YouTube playlist. A work in progress….
Shopping App’s Use For Geo-Location
A quick thought on using a mobile phone’s GPS in a novel fashion for an online retailer. Nowadays basically every mobile phone has a gps chip in it, and all smart phones can provide location data to the apps they run. Recently I was asked by a client about ideas for possibly reaching out to …
Maintenance: FourSquare Day Party Pictures with RNO in GoaG
Cleaning up on some older blog posts that never got published for whatever reason. A while ago I took photos at the FourSquare Day party. The photos were picked up by Guest of a Guest. Shooting parties like this is always fun – even if I have to put my gear in peril by using …
Nowness.com Implements HTML Links in Embed Code
LVMH’s fashion and lifestyle blog Nowness, which I’ve been working with for quite some time, recently made a major step forward with their video implementation. Now, when users click the “share” button on any Nowness post page, they’ll get optimized video embed code which includes both the flash object embed code, as well as two …
Lonely Planet: Japan
My favorite types of books to to buy are travel guides, because that means I’m going somewhere. Today I bought the Lonely Planet Guide to Japan. Cheers! (posted from the WordPress iPhone app.. which gets 2 out of 5 stars.)