Last week, the Television Academy of Arts and Sciences announced that they would be awarding prestigious Emmy Awards in an expansion of the short-form series category. The deeper explanation of categories and requirements is: The Emmys has expanded the short-form series awards to four categories: comedy or drama; variety; reality/non-fiction; and animation. Series must have a minimum of six episodes with an average [...]
With crazy-high download speeds being provided as an alternative to mobile data while you traverse city blocks, it might seem like the connectivity gods have answered our prayers. Joanna Stern of the Wall Street Journal found that she could download a 2-hour film weighing 1GB in a mere 45 seconds while standing near one NYC's [...]
Some (or most) news blurbs deserve (or require) more big-picture consideration than what is immediately prevalent on the surface. Coverage of GM's investment of $500M in Lyft is just one example. While part of GM's hoped-for returns is based on the opportunity for providing fleet cars for Lyft's services, a more "sexy" consideration is the [...]
As we head into a new year amidst Star Wars insanity (among other, less fun, insanity) it's a time to ponder future plans both personally and professionally. One of those might be the future makeup of your team at work - which drives the question of whether you'd hire Han Solo for your team. He [...]
This morning, while putting gas in my car, I pulled out my mobile device and placed a mobile order for a Venti Latte (1% Milk and No Foam) with around 5 button presses on the Starbucks mobile app. When the gas was filled, I jumped in the car and drove 100 yards to the nearest [...]
It wasn't so long ago that people would provide a quizzical stare when presented the concept of eSports as an industry and an even shorter time since people would laugh at the thought of eSports becoming big business with a huge following. Now, adding to the list of new generational tastes and trends that bucked [...]
If you have time to look away from the numerous sales hitting your in-box, you might want to check out a list of the Greatest Innovations attributed to 2015 that Popular Science just published. The cool thing about it is that it is not limited to one vertical, and while some lists of innovation only [...]
Forget, for a second, the impetus for Jean Jullien's drawing mashing up the peace symbol and the Eiffel Tower to appreciate how incredibly fast it spread throughout the world. Being as only 24 hours after Jullien took a minute to create the illustration it was all over the place, you'd have thought it had been [...]
At the end of last week, Google's future plans for music video subscriptions on YouTube were made more generally known. The coverage in SFGate lays out the details and concerns quite nicely. I'm certainly not the only one who has been touting for a while that fee based content is where the internet needs to [...]
It is easy to get caught up in the fervor of the World Cup as hundreds of millions root for teams from around the globe. Many of those viewers may be seeing ad styles that they're not used to seeing if they are not already watchers of Soccer/Futbol - with no breaks other than half-time. [...]
