Asus EEE Pad Transformer TF101, a Christmas gift from Modern Earth (all the staff got to pick out our own tablets), used to play the Queen’s annual Christmas address, via YouTube.
About Ian
Ian M Rountree is an SEO and content marketing specialist with Modern Earth Web Design, Winnipeg Manitoba's biggest and best web development company.
The New-Clear Option – Scrapping my Google Reader
November 1, 2011 By 2 Comments
I’ve done it, people. I’ve nuked my Google Reader. I just deleted 238 feeds, in less than six clicks. Why? Because I was tired of the noise. Blogging often calls for a delicate balance of signal and noise. With more and more diverse bodies broadcasting, I’ve collected a long list of subscriptions over the years; [...]
Facebook Timelines – First Look
September 27, 2011 By Leave a Comment
From the site that brought you eight different news feeds in six months, comes a wonderful new toy. A profile dedicated not to what you are, but everything you have ever been. Timelines, introduced last week through developer beta, have been getting a lot of press – but what might they actually mean for your [...]
The Mechanics of Ambition
August 4, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Some time during the mid-nineties, we decided culturally that ambition was a bad sign in a person. That the seeking of wealth or achievement for its own sake was an indicator of selfishness, or greed, or a lack of awareness of one’s fellow humans. While one hundred per cent of these statements may be true, [...]
Proximity
August 3, 2011 By Leave a Comment
We want to think outside the box – but then end up being too far from the box to be recognizable. Being too close to the work gets us in trouble for different reasons; it means we limit ourselves and don’t take advantage of opportunities others see for innovation. Measuring your proximity takes a particular [...]
After This, Therefore From This
August 2, 2011 By Leave a Comment
We’ve all heard the classic form of this problem – correlation does not necessarily imply causation. But, even knowing this, how often do we fall for it? The internet followed where ARPANET began. The internet became a craze in the late nineties. LiveJournal followed on the text-file blogging craze of the mid-nineties. Facebook followed on [...]
Kaizen and Application Level Lifestyle Design
August 1, 2011 By Leave a Comment
One of the intensely appealing things about the current app economy is the sense we get of kaizen from the aps we’re downloading – constant, consistent improvement in their features and value propositions. If we opt in early, we get to see the growth, the longer we use an application. If we opt in late, [...]
