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The Amazon Kindle Fire: Soup-to-Nuts

Originally posted 2011-09-29 08:35:25. Given the flurry of news (and my own blog postings) about the Kindle Fire, I decided to bring everything together on one page…and even hint at a couple of additional topics I plan to address in the near future. The Market The Kindle Fire has brought clear segmentation to the tablet [...]

Why Startups

Originally posted 2011-06-01 20:41:50. Having spent the last 10 years or so of my life in a "startup" capacity (whether with jdpower.com, or with my consulting company, or most recently with GoWare.com), I have been forced into a position of self-reflection, especially with GoWare shutting its doors recently. In this position of self-reflection, I have [...]

There's No Escape From Gamification

Originally posted 2011-08-09 10:35:29. I've written before about how companies are adopting/embracing the concept of gamification, especially with the explosion of social media and the Web. It seems that these two catalysts (social media's ability to provide permanence to a user's achievements in the form of badges, and the web's ubiquitous access) are helping to [...]

The Ease of Creating More Data

Originally posted 2011-07-19 07:45:52. We talk about the increasing amount of data that is being produced each and every day through blogs, tweets, and status updates. But that's only the half of it. A variety of electronics are enabling us to create more data that even though we may not sure adds to a number [...]

Accomplishment vs. Achievement

Originally posted 2011-07-13 08:52:43. In the real world, these two terms are in a very harmonious hierarchy. Although in some cases you can accomplish something, that, in itself, may be not be an achievement (i.e, I took out the trash; it wasn't an achievement but I accomplished a task). In the gaming world, though, the [...]

Cross-channel Media Interactivity

Originally posted 2011-06-29 16:50:14. With Rowling's announcement of Pottermore, we are looking at a truly transformational landscape for reading, not just publishing. http://gigaom.com/2011/06/29/pottermo... Although Wolf's article really talks about how Rowling's move harkens to the very fast-moving changes facing the publishing industry, it also has profound implications on the way we read. I have written [...]

Review: Hands-on With CurationSoft

Originally posted 2011-08-29 09:06:01. For any of you bloggers out there, content curation is a critical piece of content marketing. Your readers not only come to you for relevant, insightful, and interesting information, they also look to you to tell them what's interesting out in the rest of the blog/media sphere. In essence, you become [...]

Would You Pay Using Your Phone?

Originally posted 2011-08-01 14:39:12. There's a growing swell of movement around utilizing the cell phone to make payments. Some employ NFC (near-field communication) while others employ other cell-based mechanisms (most recently Payfone). But regardless of the method, the objective is clear: Mobile payments let you pay for stuff like digital and hard goods using just [...]

EAT THE MARSHMALLOW!!!!

Originally posted 2011-08-26 09:02:29. Could you resist the temptation? Apparently not if you are a little girl with red hair… From In the Mind of Jason Thibeault, post EAT THE MARSHMALLOW!!!! Post Footer automatically generated by wp-posturl plugin for wordpress.

Is "TV Time" Dead?

Note: this post was original published on the Limelight Networks Blog as part of my role as Sr. Director, Solutions Marketing for Digital Media. Providing services in the video space, we try to look years in the future. In fact, when Limelight was founded, that's exactly what the visionary creators did: they believed that online [...]