Technology

While traveling back from D.C. last week, I sat on the plane trying to think up a perfect in-flight iPhone app. While in D.C. I spent a good share of time looking up bus schedules and waited for the Metro. I also spent time thinking up some app ideas for the city’s bus and subway [...]

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The latest episode of Thinking and Driving had me pondering other possibilities for QR codes. For those who don’t know, a QR code is like a barcode that can be read by smart-phones and QR code scanners. The QR code can contain and initiate text, contact information, or most importantly, website URLs. Let’s dive in to some ideas. I [...]

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In this episode of Thinking and Driving, I talk about QR code sightings at the 2010 Summer Outdoor Retailer show. But before I get too far into this post I will explain what a QR code is. A QR code (or Quick Response code) is a square barcode that can be read by smartphones using the attached [...]

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The Outdoor Retailer conference is over for me, ending a week-long, 3 hotel tour. I started off the day at an amazing panel discussion about video content, and while I was driving home a bunch of ideas were floating through my head that I was trying to remember. So I whipped out my new iPhone [...]

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My Consumer Manifesto

July 28, 2010

Hello World. I am here today to pitch you my idea, and I am going to talk to you as a consumer. The thing I never thought that I would want to be… until I realized that I could have it the way I wanted. We can change the game. Like you, I am sick [...]

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Starting a video contest can seem like a daunting task. There isn’t much information out there on the subject either. I recently researched and helped launch a video contest with the National Outdoor Leadership School. Here are some of the things I learned. Picking a Platform YouTube – Gathering information on video contests through YouTube [...]

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