Category Archives: New Media

On Having Been Brave

When Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World decades before the advent of the Internet, he portrayed future society as an embodiment of the ideals that form the basis of understanding the future. His work was a study of the possible, probable and even preferable in terms of this future. I feel like that same description [...]

Back To The Future: Timeline for Facebook Brand Pages

by Alissa Ausan (@ajausan) Timeline format for Facebook brand pages isn’t just a rumor, anymore. As we learned this morning, it arrives March 30, 2012. Timeline for individual users has been met with mixed reviews, so obviously brands share some trepidation over what the roll-out of this new interface means for their online strategy. Essentially, [...]

Big Nerd Ranch Day 4: My brain is full. Please try again later.

I can’t believe how fast this class is going. I feel like I have months of iPhone programming knowledge behind me already. Topics covered today: the accelerometer (tilting, shaking), phone rotation, working with table views, and editing/adding/deleting data from an app. I worked ahead a little bit and learned how to control the phone’s camera, [...]

Big Nerd Ranch Day 3: There’s an app for that

Check out those icons. I made those apps! They even do things. As you can see, today was a big day. We learned a lot. It feels like Thanksgiving for my brain: I’m completely stuffed, but I’m craving seconds, and I will eat more no matter what. The Quiz application is really simple. There are [...]