by Dave Gehring on April 11, 2010
It’s been a while since my lats post on the subject…sounds like the start of a teenage journal or diary entry….but in any case, it has been a while. Which I think is to be expected while this project remains a hobby more than a business. But the important thing is, I think, progress has [...]
by Dave Gehring on November 16, 2009
I’ve been digging back into the mobile arena after taking a couple years off to launch Famplosion. When I left the technologies required for delivering a meaningful TV experience on a mobile phone were, well let’s just say, not very compelling. But what made the situation worse was that the industry was controlled by the [...]
by Dave Gehring on November 10, 2009
Back in September, Brian Stelter reported for the New York Times, on the acquisition of NowPublic by Examiner.com. My last startup company, Famplosion, is focused on local family audience content, so these sorts of deals are interesting to me. The landscape of players in local digital news media is likely to continue to consolidate as [...]
by Dave Gehring on November 4, 2009
I spent a few more hours today working on the wireframes for the mobile app I’ve been thinking about, and I have to say it’s pretty fun. There’s just something gratifying about giving at least a graphical reality to an application idea. I love the way the process forces a rigor of logic in understanding [...]
by Dave Gehring on November 1, 2009
I spent some time today get started on wireframing out the new mobile app. I have to say this is going to be a very fun process! In describing the app and process, I’ll have to be a little circumspect, because unlike the tech companies I’ve worked for in the past, this product, being a [...]
by Dave Gehring on October 28, 2009
Today Verizon and Motorola launched the first Android phone. Here’s news from a guy who was there, Saul Hansell. The sure-to-follow-marketing effort will leave us all wondering when Android will become self aware and decide to enslave the human race. Regardless, I’m pretty darn excited about the launch actually. Granted, not being a gadget guy, [...]
by Dave Gehring on October 26, 2009
Mobile social networking is continuing to wind it’s way toward something er other. Dennis Crowley of Dodgeball fame is back with Foursquare…basically the same thing but better funded and involving native apps for iPhone, Android and BlackBerry. You can also use text for all you old timers out there. I was first acquainted with Dodgeball [...]