How does one prepare for this thing they call SXSW interactive? South By Southwest, the annual Austin, Texas festival of all things awesome in music and media, continues to expand in scale. Once a cool little Texas festival, SXSW is now a sprawling two-week media fest. Divided into three distinct components (interactive, film and music) […]
What you missed at the CES 2013 For those who missed the Consumer Electronic Show 2013, I’m going to recap exactly what took place in the event. This year was nothing but spectacular for Samsung and Microsoft. Samsung produced a new type of flat plastic surface called OLED, which stands for organic light emitting diodes. […]
Hello and Happy first blog of the year to you! I was happy to have a nice break this winter. Taking time to visit family and loved ones makes life that much sweeter. Now that we’re all back, willing or not, it’s time to take stock and decide what the future could look like for […]
If you are looking to gift someone with a tablet, or you simply want one for yourself, you may be confused by all the options available. It seems as though there is a new tablet each and every day! Hopefully this list we compiled will help you understand the best tablets available for the holidays, […]
CircleClick attended the 3rd annual SF Appshow in San Francisco last week. Hosted by Seth Socolow and presented by Gina Smith, SF Appshow featured this years newest mobile applications for iPhone, iPad and Android devices. Ten apps in all, each app was presented and voted on by the audience and also, viewers watching via live […]
Microsoft is releasing Windows 8 on October 26th 2012. What does this mean for the state of the web? According to Mozilla and Google, Microsoft is bringing the web back to the digital dark ages when there was only Internet Explorer available on the windows platform. Microsoft is blocking API access to other applications, sound […]
This post was inspired by pure anger. I can admit it! As a web marketing consultant I spend a lot of time following the latest social media trends, because it’s my business to do so. However, Facebook tricks even ME into posting things publicly and it’s a big issue. Recently I went to upload an […]
Update: GoDaddy has completed the outage investigation with the following statement: “The service outage was not caused by external influences. It was not a “hack” and it was not a denial of service attack (DDoS). We have determined the service outage was due to a series of internal network events that corrupted router data tables. […]
San Francisco is a hotbed of tech development and activity. I continue to be impressed with the conferences I attend here, they are so very geeky and that is something I enjoy. MobileAppCon 2012 was a small conference, but a good one. My favorite speakers were: Sam Shank – Hotel Tonight Ron Conway – SV […]
We’ve all seen the headlines, whether it’s Google paying record fines or Facebook making our personal data up for grabs. Every day there is some sort of threat to our online privacy. While I believe our notion of privacy will continue to evolve over time, there are a few free ways to protect yourself online. […]