Earn Your Social Media Time

A colleague sent this link to me.  The web page is pictured above.  It’s a simple and transparent thought, but just maybe there’s something more to it.  I believe what this could represent is our online selves becoming a bit too dominant.  Maybe, every now and then we need simple reminders to feed our offline selves [...]

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Blog Cloud – A Short Case for People Time

  This is a word cloud.  It’s a creative representation of the most commonly utilized words from a set of text.  That text just so happens to be from a few of the most recent post on my blog, which you are reading now. I stumbled onto this website, Wordle, that creates “beautiful word clouds” utilizing an [...]

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AR at Your Fingertips

  The new iPhone 3GS has unleashed some really awesome user capabilities.  But this latest piece of software, Bionic Eye, is one of the best augmented reality applications I have seen and it’s currently available for $1 at the App Store.  Not that this technology is overly sophisticated, however, the accessibility to an AR tool by average users is [...]

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Digital’s Impact on Volunteerism

I came across this post on the CultureWaves blog.  To summarize the context, “launching this month are the two drinks, LemonAid and ChariTea.  They form a unique venture, where most of the profits from the activity will be used for social purposes, managed by the company LemonAid Beverages GmbH.  In addition to the ingredients being [...]

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The Human Engine: Fueled by We.

I really love this video, Sour’s Hibi no Neiro, for one simple reason:  It’s a beautiful and creative testament to the power of the human engine.     With the rise of consumer power through collective strength and collaboration, the web undoubtedly being the catalyst, we’ve seen some pretty interesting and innovative ways brands have [...]

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Changing the Way We Socialize

Social media is officially changing the game we play.  The landmarks we have experienced in the past 5 years have been monumental.  This short video synthesizes what we all know, but leaves you with some very provocative truth nuggets.  Just one note – I’m glad they noticed the abandonment of the Iranian election crises due [...]

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The Truth in Data

Click here to explore the data tool. I stumbled onto another amazing data visualization tool, this time brought to you by Hans Rosling of Gapminder.  The above picture is a static image as an example, however, graphs the relationship of per capita income and life expectancy for various Nations (those that have accessible data), including [...]

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Data Visualization for All

Click here to create your own. This is my web persona.  Well, at least this is what the aggregated digital footprint for Victor Acosta looks like.  The smart people at the MIT Media Lab have developed this interesting tool, called Personas, that ‘scours the web for information and attempts to characterize a person – in order to [...]

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