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When Advertising Pays Off…for Consumers

Posted in BusinessGaming

Originally posted 2011-07-20 11:06:39. There is no doubt that advertising, in its truest sense of pushing a marketing message/image at us, does nothing for the consumer. They don't get anything from it. But with the growing consumption of online games, there seems to be a natural fit with showing advertisements and providing the user with [...]

Cloud Computing is a Utility Service…Sort Of.

Posted in Cloud

Originally posted 2011-07-22 08:27:21. Although we often use the term "commodity" or "utility" to refer to the growing trend of computing in the cloud, where services are purchased by the amount of resources used (CPU, memory, disk, etc.), there is no standard way to measure this usage. Part of the issue is that there isn't [...]

Facepalm: Gender Salary Gap

Posted in Facepalm

Originally posted 2011-08-09 14:31:48. This graph pretty much says it all. If you have a penis, you make more money. End of story. Ridiculous. /facepalm From In the Mind of Jason Thibeault, post Facepalm: Gender Salary Gap Post Footer automatically generated by wp-posturl plugin for wordpress.

Let the New Space Race Begin

Posted in BusinessHypothesis

Originally posted 2011-08-01 16:26:13. With the death of NASA's shuttle program comes the beginning of a new space race, one between corporations: http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/one... The annals of science fiction have been littered with not-to-distant futures where corporations rule the world, where businesses wage wars and battle instead of governments. But it seems that we might be [...]

Digital e-book Readers

Posted in Review

Originally posted 2011-06-01 20:52:42. I haven't had the experience yet with Amazon's Kindle, but I can highly recommend Sony's eBook reader to everyone reading this post. First, Sony makes create consumer electronics. The book is thin, light-weight, has a great cover, and is fairly easy to navigate. Their PC-based software (through which you load books) [...]

Are We On the Verge of a Truly Global Internet?

Posted in BusinessCloudHypothesisIndustry AnalysisTechnology

The concept of the Internet, a vast, globally-distributed inter-connected network of disparate systems, has always been about "access anywhere." But let's face it, that is far from the truth. The bulk of connectivity is largely concentrated in major population centers, big cities that are close to the very backbone of the Internet (really big pipes [...]

Review: Skype for iPad

Posted in MobileReview

Originally posted 2011-08-02 08:21:24. Now you can connect your iPad 2 to your massive, global network of skypers as Skype has officially launched their iOS app for the tablet. GigaOm has a great hands-on review of the app: http://gigaom.com/apple/hands-on-with... From In the Mind of Jason Thibeault, post Review: Skype for iPad Post Footer automatically generated [...]

Photo: The Surrealism of Nature

Posted in Photo

Originally posted 2011-08-15 11:50:50. Sometimes you can just lose yourself in a photo. It may not be art. It may not be very interesting. But visually, it is stunning and inspires the imagination. Such is the case in a recent posting by NatGeo. From In the Mind of Jason Thibeault, post Photo: The Surrealism of [...]

Pain, The Mind, and the Vastness of Life

Posted in Hypothesis

Originally posted 2011-06-01 20:50:41. Could the mechanisms by which our mind deals with pain (i.e., blockout the memory of the actual pain) be related to our need for a God as a black to the overwhelming vastness of the world/universe? If so, realizing that we are insignificant, the "vastness" is "painful," and God becomes a [...]

Video News in Review (Week of February 27th)

Posted in Video

A weekly curation of video-related news and blog postings from around the Web. Originally published on the Limelight Networks Blog as part of my role as Sr. Director, Solutions Marketing for Digital Media. IneoQuest predicts rise in OTT video | Advanced Television advanced-television.com2/27/12 Managing the Video Viewer Experience is Critical: Due to the increasing use [...]