Seth Godin is one of the world’s greatest marketing thought leaders and I so enjoy seeing him present live. He was the featured speaker for a Webinar called “The Future of Marketing: Being Remarkable and the Meatball Sundae.” It was full of great information.

What it was NOT full of was great visuals. Seth barely avoided delivering “death by PowerPoint” by presenting plain black and white slides with a single line headline and no more than 6 bullet points - just like the rules tell us. The good news - no awful clip art and tacky animation! The bad news - it couldn’t have been more boring. (Read the article)

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What’s old is new again!

It was in the late summer or early fall of 1976, I believe, that I last put something on “layaway”. I needed a new winter coat and the small shop I frequented had the perfect one - for over two hundred dollars. A fortune for me in those days!

Thanks to that option, I could put a deposit down and pay on a regular basis - every two weeks or once a month - until it was mine. I religiously made my payments and before the winter was over I was proud owner of a coat I wore for more than 10 years. (Read the article)

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Have you noticed that the way we communicate has changed our landscape? What’s missing?

Where will Superman change out of his street clothes? How will Dr. Who travel time and space? Where will you drop your mail? (Read the article)

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In just a few short years we’ve gone from paper airline tickets - remember travel agents and the stack of tickets, receipts, and stubs? - to e-tickets and DIY boarding passes. It was always a challenge to keep the paper tickets close at hand, but then the security was much simpler then. And with e-tickets, online check-in, and printable boarding passes, it can be a challenge to print them out “on the road.”

Now I’ll just flash my iPhone and all will be well! (Read the article)

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Just a few days ago, I waxed rapsodic about Oblong Technologies’ Gesture Technology à la Minority Report, and today I discover that the Germans did it first and better!

Fraunhoffer HHI demonstrated the iPoint Presenter - the mouse of the future - an input device for contact-free “multipointing” user interaction at WIRED NextFest 2008, an exhibit that ran from September 27 - October 12, in Chicago. (Read the article)

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