by Wayne Kurtzman | Nov 12, 2010 | Feature, Geolocation, Innovation, LBS Location Based Service, Social Media, Web 2.0
We’re out in traffic every day. We’re not only on the big highways, but busy local roads. With all this mobile technology, wouldn’t it be great if our mobile devices could talk to each other and share real-time traffic reports? Meet waze–pronounced “ways,”–a mobile...
by Wayne Kurtzman | Oct 15, 2010 | education, Feature, Innovation, Social Media
It was 40 years ago that “Cracklin’ Rosie” got on board for Neil Diamond and Diana Ross learned there “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough.” It’s also when futurist Alvin Toffler introduced us to the concepts of information overload, prosumerism and a warning that a...
by Wayne Kurtzman | Oct 14, 2010 | Innovation
If you’ve had it with social media on computers and you’ve had it with 140 characters worth of updates and photos sent from phones, as the saying goes, “you ain’t seen nothing yet.” I am speaking of new living room toys recently introduced that even George Jetson...
by Wayne Kurtzman | Aug 30, 2010 | Feature, Innovation, Marketing, Social Media, Web 2.0
Seth Priebatsch, the CEO and Chief Ninja of the mobile geolocation game company SCVNGR, (pronounced scavenger), wants to build a game layer on top of the world. Listening to him speak at the recent TEDxBoston conference makes you realize that the game layer is...
by Wayne Kurtzman | Aug 20, 2010 | education, Feature, Innovation, Knowledge Management
My heart sank a little bit when I read on Google’s official blog that Google Wave will be put out to digital pasture at the end of the year. It sank not because “I ‘heart’ Google,” but rather because an outstanding collaboration platform will go away. The problems...
by Wayne Kurtzman | Jun 18, 2010 | education, Innovation
In late May, I had the good fortune to lead a team of volunteers who captured images of some of the most creative kids in the world. During out “volcations”, it was our job is to bring the story of Destination ImagiNation Global Finals to the hundreds of...
