Engineer-bloggers and the future of the electronics conversation
What’s the future of electronics B:B journalism? Look no farther than Harry the ASIC Guy. An engineer by education, experience and passion, Harry Gries is carving for himself a niche in the electronics-design conversation with his eponymous blog, Harry the ASIC Guy (Twitter: @harrytheasicguy). I talked with him recently for a story on social media [...]
Social media’s rising impact in the engineering world
Perhaps because I blather on about it, Suzanne Defree at EDN asked to write a piece about what’s going on regarding social media in the electronics engineering world. She posted the story last week, and I haven’t had a chance to call it out because I was out of the country (Costa Rica, where sand [...]
Out of Joost
Joost, the online video-sharing service founded by Skype founders Nik Zennstrom and Janus Friis, pulled the plug on its original business model. The company, according to The Wall Street Journal, said it would reinvent itself as a whitebox technology provider for companies wanting to publish Internet video under their own brands (Hmm…. no first-mover advantage [...]
Old media, new technology and the tyranny of age
Summary: Sometimes established media shows its age and biases with breathtaking clarity. Media plays a key (if fading, alas) role as cultural skeptic, but increasingly it appears out of step with technology advances that imperil media’s traditional model. The farther it falls the behind, the more it imperils its important role. I felt this way [...]
Managing the Chaos of Twitter: Real-time Search
The more you get into Twitter, presumably the more people you follow. This quickly becomes a scaling problem as hundreds, if not thousands of messages can stream through your feed throughout a given day. If you’re like most people, you may check Twitter once a day. You see the top few tweets but to go [...]
The Bloom is off the Twitter Rose…Finally
You’re probably familiar with those great time-to-market-saturation charts that pop up in PowerPoint presentations every so often. It took, for example, a number of decades for the telephone to penetrate the majority of homes; fewer decades for the radio, fewer still for TVs, VCRs, and cell phones. The same might be applied to social media [...]
Analog Devices Gets More Digital
Summary: Analog Devices today unveiled a new social-media community for its customers, Engineer Zone, designed to drive conversation about digital signal processor (DSP) technologies and products. Analog Devices is an old-line semiconductor company that’s starting to get more serious about new media. Today the company unveiled a new social media community built on the Jive [...]
Streaming Consciousness
Summary: Hardware and software technology has matured sufficiently to bring streaming live video to the desktop. Platforms are emerging that people and companies need to examine if they’re interested in exploring the modern world of broadcasting and its implications for communications. I haven’t made a batch of beer in a few months and I’m getting [...]
Check out our upcoming Webinar
Fellow editor John Dodge and I will be appearing on a Webinar a week from today (June 9) to discuss social media trends. John’s out on his own now after running Design News for several years at Reed. He writes about net PC trends at The Dodge Retort. Steve Paul, a onetime colleague of mine [...]
The case for trusted content sources
Summary: Marketing departments are doing their best to figure out how to leverage social media and that’s putting major strain on ethics in an age where influential bloggers, tweeters and the like can be bought. Ultimately, good companies want independent and ethical b.s. filters for their messages. Really. It’s an old story: Reporter-writer accepts free [...]
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