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Bill Kuykendall

Vintage Bottles via New Technology - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • The devices seem to be spurring deeper interest in wine and empowering bolder, more confident selections, they say, potentially revolutionizing the psychology of dining’s most intimidating passage.
  • Interactive wine lists began appearing at a smattering of restaurants as early as 2001, and leading wine analysts have for several years offered recommendations via smartphone applications. But Apple’s introduction in April of the iPad, which approximates a conventional wine list in size, shape and weight, has substantially accelerated the trend.
  • “It stuns me, but they seem to trust the device more than they trust me, and these are people I’ve waited on for 10 years.”
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  • “It’s fabulous to be able to understand not just the prices but the flavors and the nose and the winemaker’s comments,” Mr. Burns said. “The technology allows you to do a heck of a lot more with a wine list than we ever have before.”
Bill Kuykendall

Raleigh first in state with one-on-one technology - WVPubcast.org - 1 views

  • May 29, 2013 · Raleigh County Schools will be the first in the state to adopt district-wide one-on-one technology in every classroom.   Raleigh County Superintendent of Schools Jim Brown is marking his first year on the job with the announcement of a multi-million dollar contract with Apple that will supply every student with either a 4th generation iPad or access to an iPad Mini.   There are 12,000 students in the county. Brown said the investment for the initiative called iRaleigh comes to $135.48 per pupil.
Bill Kuykendall

Asher Moses and Julian Lee - 0 views

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    "A senior executive at Adobe revealed that the ABC was keen to strike up a partnership with the company, whose Flash Player technology is being used by other media groups to bring their content onto the iPad and a range of similar tablets due to be put on the market this year."
Bill Kuykendall

After iPad, Rivals Offer Hybrid Variations - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • these companies are feeling the pressure to respond to the iPad, which went on sale April 3. But their decisions to develop the hybrid products also demonstrate their desire to expand their core businesses, and to experiment with varying kinds of business models and technologies.
  • Google is going one step further, exploring the idea of building its own slate, an e-reader that would function like a computer.
Bill Kuykendall

Interior Designers Revive Domino Style With Lonny - NYTimes.com - 2 views

  • Lonny looks and acts like a print magazine, not a Web site or a blog. It has pages to turn, a table of contents and full-page ads. But it offers Web-only benefits like zoomable, clickable images, so readers can inspect a lamp displayed in a photograph of someone’s living room and then click to buy it.
  • Lonny is published every other month using Issuu, a Web platform where, for $19 a month, anyone can upload a PDF and instantly create an online magazine that looks like a print one.
  • “you’ll know a new narrative form has emerged when you have to consume a particular story on an iPad to truly understand its content, and reading it on any other platform simply wouldn’t work.”
William P. Davis

Photographing the OJ Simpson trial - 0 views

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    A really interesting article about remote photography before the technology was there.
Bill Kuykendall

Judge Hears Arguments on Google Book System - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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    "The federal judge overseeing the proposed settlement of a class-action lawsuit filed against Google by groups representing authors and publishers heard from a handful of supporters and a parade of objectors to the deal at a hearing Thursday in Manhattan."
Bill Kuykendall

Networks Wary of Apple's Push to Cut Show Prices on iTunes - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • If Apple cut the price of each TV episode in half — to 99 cents, from $1.99 — would sales on iTunes increase enough to offset the price drop?
  • Separately, Apple has proposed to some networks that the store sell a subscription package of popular TV shows. At a price some reports have set at $30 a month, the subscription service would be a direct threat to entrenched cable and satellite providers.
  • Pricing is coming up now in part because Apple is keen — some TV executives privately say desperate — to line up content for the iPad, the tablet computer to be available in March.
Bill Kuykendall

What's the Big Idea? It's Your Job to Discover It - Small Agency Diary - Advertising Age - 1 views

  • it is not the technique by which they communicate their brand, but the communication itself that connects the brand to the psyche of a consumer. As long as there is a need for an idea, there is a demand for what we do. In other words, we will always be in business as long as we create new ways to communicate brand stories.
  • Just because you have a venue for a conversation, such as social media, doesn't mean the consumer will have a conversation. We are the conversation makers. We are the ones that think of what to talk about.
  • Ideas become big when they are in the right place at the right time.
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  • Ideas ahead of their time aren't big.
  • The need to have an intimate connection between customer and product will always be paramount to marketers. Those who understand how to create this connection will be in high demand regardless of the technological venue through which it is communicated.
Bill Kuykendall

MediaShift . How Programmer/Journalists Craft Their Own Study Programs | PBS - 0 views

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    UMaine's Will Davis is one student profiled
Bill Kuykendall

YouTube - 2008 Latest Edition - Did You Know 3.0 - From Meeting in Rome this Year - 0 views

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    Great use of animated graphics: Demographic comparison of China and USA
Bill Kuykendall

Barnes and Noble to Introduce e-Reader, the Nook - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Kindle competitor offers 500,000 free Google Books
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