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August 2013 Blog Posts (9)

Transparent Interfaces

Just tried to explain what the floppy disk icon is for saving a doc to an 8 year old. Looked at me like I’m nuts. — Facebook friend…

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Added by Mike King on August 30, 2013 at 9:43am — 3 Comments

Social Media Engagement -- or How I Learned to Love Oversharing

It's a fun and fascinating part of my job to dream up of new ways to use social media for communicating and engaging with digital users. And with mobile devices, opportunities for social connecting are infused in every movement and moment. So much so that talk of social media addiction is sometimes greeted with a glazed-eyed blink before those eyes turn back to a Facebook screen.

 

Obviously, some deep-seated psychological need is being tapped via social media. And of course,…

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Added by Tzyh Ng on August 23, 2013 at 5:18pm — No Comments

Web security for the small-to-medium sized enterprise

There is no doubt that all of us have heard about the security breaches of numerous Fortune 500 companies.  From credit card information hijacks to content defilement, there is no shortage of news reports detailing the exploits of uber-hackers or hacker groups.  The companies that were aggrieved were so, in part, due to their size.  The acclaim for a hacker penetrating Wal-Mart or Citibank will be far greater than that achieved by taking down Joe's Pool & Spa.  But the havoc wreaked on…

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Added by Timothy Little on August 21, 2013 at 2:27pm — 1 Comment

NYT on Big Data Being an Economic Dud

My friend Ken Berkun recently sent me a link to a NYT article that was more amusing than anything I've seen in The Onion. Mr. Glanz inquires, "…

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Added by Daniel Leuck on August 19, 2013 at 5:00pm — 6 Comments

System Fail

I came across an article on the New York Post via Hacker News: My Hell as a 911 Operator.  Following an overhaul of the NYC 911 computer system, the article describes the chaos stemming from the system’s inability to handle high call volumes and frequent…

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Added by Daniel Nishimura on August 16, 2013 at 4:29pm — 2 Comments

Are You The Next Social Media Strategist?

Is it time to solidify those social media skills with a certification? We got a great online class that would do just that.

HISMTI is offering a Social Media Strategist (SMS) Certification training course through the National Institute of Social Media.

This is an online class that can be complete on your own schedule over a 6 week time period starting…

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Added by Sanna Thuresson on August 16, 2013 at 3:00pm — No Comments

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On various occasions in various settings I’ve been asked for my opinion on PHP as a web development platform. It is one of the most popular choices today, yet it is also one of the most criticized by experts. I personally have not touched the language for over a decade but it was once one of my favorite tools.

I remember doing professional web development during the first Internet boom in CGI scripts written with Perl. It was quite cryptic compared to the Java I was learning in school…

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Added by Joseph Lui on August 12, 2013 at 5:30pm — 1 Comment

Navigating Past a Herd of HiPPOs

HiPPOs -- the Highest Paid Person's Opinions -- are a well-known pitfall and obstacle to creating a great web site or mobile app. Features or designs aren't chosen because they're what users need, but because they're what the HiPPO wants.

Well, another common pitfall is something worse than digital design by HiPPO -- digital design by a herd of HiPPOs. Usually, the powerful heads of several departments all want their desires represented. If they all got their way, the new site or app…

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Added by Tzyh Ng on August 9, 2013 at 5:00pm — 1 Comment

Auto-Updating Enterprise or Ad-Hoc iOS Applications

I work on Enterprise iOS applications for a large energy company and do not have access to an MDM, but I recently had a requirement to provide an in-app way to notify users when an update is available and a way to update it immediately if they choose to. Another requirement was that it must be completely managed within the company's network, so systems like TestFlightApp were not an option.  So I created a custom UpdateManager class that I reference in my AppDelegate as such:…

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Added by Stephen McMahon on August 4, 2013 at 1:00pm — No Comments

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