Teamwork Rules – Optimizing for iPhone

During Thursday’s class Dr. Piercy had us optimize a link directory page  for iPhone usability.  Though he led us to water by pointing us to Jonathan Stark’s “Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript,” that doesn’t mean I can drink.  It is a tremendous source of information, and does an excellent job boiling down [...]

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E-Commerce breakdown

Last week in class we scratched the surface a bit about e-commerce.  As Dr. Piercy demonstrated in class, e-commerce is characterized by six major criteria: 1) ubiquity – it’s everywhere even if we don’t realize- downloading a ringtone, ordering online, getting a hot app.. 2) global reach – the internet is everywhere. So is internet [...]

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Ipone apps are cool, we got it. But what are the best practices for developing web sites for viewing on an iphone?  Find below links to sites that assist development in key areas: General iPhone Web page best practices 6 Steps to Building a Better iPhone app – Mashable.com Working with the viewport Define a [...]

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The Semantic Web with @GeorgiaWebGurl

Robin Fay is a big deal in the web world.  She’s a self described “multimedia artist, web junkie, metadata / knowledge worker, consultant, photographer, opensource fiend, social media advocate, magazine editor, librarian.”  At UGA she’s in charge of managing the library’s digital information, and in that post gets to try out all sorts of cool [...]

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Guest Post! Best practices for producing and distributing video on the Web

Thanks for the report, Roya Eidizadeh!  Roya is my teammate in our MIT class. As far as quality is concerned, we can never achieve TV quality for web videos. This is mainly due to bandwidth limitations and the results of video compression. In order to improve web video quality, there are certain procedures for the [...]

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Dr. Horrible sings all the way to the bank

Part of this week’s assignment was to post about the historic event of a web-based program winning an Emmy. Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly) won the first ever “Short-format Live-Action Entertainment Programs” emmy for Dr. Horrible’s Sing-along Blog starring Neil Patrick Harris.  Ironic that a show not seen on TV won a TV award? [...]

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Twitter Tools- 101!

One stop shop for 101 twitter tools from the blog New Economics of Advertising:  http://adecon101.blogspot.com/2009/03/100-twitter-tools-to-help-you-achieve.html I happen to have already had that link saved in my delicious account so this post was kinda easy.  Let’s go with the ones I’ve used and plan to use again: 17. Monitter: Get real time keyword monitoring on Twitter from [...]

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Atl is Abuzz with Social Butterfly

There’s really no business or organization that can’t leverage twitter to help meet objectives.  For starters, GO’s like The White House (@WhiteHouse) uses it to get its message out, newspapers use it to distribute news (@CNN, @WSJ, @TheOnion) and companies use it for customer service (@Dell, @Comcast, @JetBlue, @GM).  Learn more about “Brands that Tweet” in [...]

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You are what you tweet

Dr. Piercy asked us to sign up for a Twitter account if we haven’t already, and to talk a bit about how to use the service. Accordng to the omniscient Wikipedia, “Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to [...]

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Wikipedia is Wikicomplicated

Well for some reason WP just ate this post when I hit “update.”  Never happened before.  Bummer.  Anyway, I did successfully start a wiki page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Entrepreneurship.  This was more complicated than I thought it would be.  My suggestions to people looking to do the same is to 1) budget more time than you think you [...]

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