Category Archives: Technology

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” – Arthur C. Clarke

Technology is integral to every facet of marketing from websites, to email, to mass mailings, to television commercials.

High Dynamic Range Imaging

By Mark Nelson | Published: June 29, 2010
Advancements in digital compositing have led a formerly complex process and technology to become mainstream. High Dynamic Range Imaging (HDRI) is now a one-click process with Photoshop CS5. HDRI is a series of multiple exposures combined into a single image providing a greater dynamic range of luminance between the lightest and darkest areas of an image. HDRI allows for a more accurate representation of real scenes, capable of displaying a greater dynamic range than what can be captured with film, digital and even the human eye.
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Part 2: Setting up a testing environment – Mobile

By Bill Chirrick | Published: April 20, 2010
In the first post on “Setting up a testing environment” we went through some of the many options that are available, but left out an increasingly important segment. The mobile web is growing at a furious pace...
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Digging Deeper

By Melanie Moser | Published: April 8, 2010
Over 2,000 years ago, Plato wrote Phaedrus. He wrote, "Socrates feared that, as people came to rely on the written word as a substitute for the knowledge they used to carry inside their heads, they would, in the words of one of the dialogue’s characters, 'cease to exercise their memory and become forgetful.'" Today, every answer we could ever ask is at our finger tips. I wonder: has that made us smarter?
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iBeliever

By Vu Dang | Published: March 24, 2010
It's an understatement to say there was so much build up prior to Apple's unveiling of the iPad. The net was buzzing with what Apple would introduce. Would it be an iSlate or iTablet or some form of a netbook? When they introduced the iPad and its feature set, most people thought it was just a larger version of the iPod Touch. In a lot of ways it is... Yet will it succeed?
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Augmented Reality

By Jonathan Rouse | Published: March 4, 2010
Have you heard of Haddad’s Theorem? It was discovered in 1906, it states that 80 percent of your profits as a company are derived from 20 percent of your audience, and it’s named after Munir Haddad, a co-worker of mine. How did one of the guiding principles of economic theory get to be named after a man born 65 years after the principle was discovered? Pull up a chair…
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Setting up a testing environment

By Bill Chirrick | Published: December 17, 2009
First impressions are everything in business. It is crucial that your message is clear and easy to act on. If the first thing your customers see are broken images, links that don't work, or other issues, they are more likely to leave without looking any further.
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