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Has Google Lapsed Into Newtonian Thinking?

March 14, 2012 By Jeff Turner 17 Comments

“The Google I was passionate about was a technology company that empowered its employees to innovate. The Google I left was an advertising company with a single corporate-mandated focus,” James Whittaker wrote in Why I Left Google. “The days of old Google hiring smart people and empowering them to invent the future was gone. The […]

The Upside And Downside Of Being Videolicious

March 10, 2012 By Jeff Turner 19 Comments

Videolicious is a dead simple iPhone video production app. I’ve been “playing” with it for about a month and can now say for certain, there is a place for this app in my content creation toolset. But it has a few limitations. First, let’s look at the upside. It’s ridiculously easy to use. Once you […]

Hope For External Inspiration Springs Eternal

March 8, 2012 By Jeff Turner 10 Comments

Every Apple product launch comes with a large dose of hope to go with the hype. The New iPad Launched Yesterday. I’ve already ordered mine. I’m not going to go over the insane specs of the new screen or enter the debate about whether it lives up to the hype or not. Much has been written […]

What’s Your Twitter Archetwype?

March 7, 2012 By Jeff Turner 10 Comments

When Dave Cole takes to his whiteboard, good things happen. On Monday, his whiteboard was filled with thoughts about social-media-powered quadrangles under the concept name of “AuthenTWicity.” Go ahead and laugh. Tuesday they were built into the backend of Dashter’s full profile views and named “Dashter Archetwypes.” You can laugh again, we don’t mind. Since an archetype refers […]

Kenya – Recalibrating My Worldview

March 5, 2012 By Jeff Turner 22 Comments

As he drove us to our appointment in what is known as the “Quarry Slums” Andrew Mnjama spoke passionately about his background in finance, his experience with micro-finance, and his desire to make a difference in the lives of the poorest of the poor in Nairobi’s slums, all the while, effortlessly dodging cars and people […]