Jordan Berkowitz

maxsilvestri: Um, let’s all quit comedy because apparently Liam...

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:50:03 -0500

Um, let’s all quit comedy because apparently Liam Neeson is already the best at it. Incredible.

(This is a clip from that new Ricky Gervais/Warwick Davis show.)

Perhaps one of the best videos I have seen of Steve Jobs in...

Fri, 14 Oct 2011 06:55:36 -0400

Perhaps one of the best videos I have seen of Steve Jobs in action. Clearly 15 years ago he had a vision and pursued it unrelentingly.

A recent contribution to #makeachartday.

Fri, 09 Sep 2011 14:58:36 -0400

A recent contribution to #makeachartday.

Varsity Bookmarking: My Job Pt.1 — I have no idea what I'm doing

Tue, 24 May 2011 11:35:06 -0400

Varsity Bookmarking: My Job Pt.1 — I have no idea what I'm doing:

pieratt:

I am the CEO of Svpply, Inc., a social shopping S-Corp operating out of New York City. My company has been the recipient of over half-a-million in investor dollars, for the stated purpose of building an unknown, 3,000-member web service into a cultural phenomenon, and I truly have very little…

AdamWohl.com: Manifesto: the future.

Wed, 11 May 2011 12:02:19 -0400

AdamWohl.com: Manifesto: the future.:

adamwohl:

The following is an expurgated version of the presentation I made last Friday, April 29th, 2011, at the Brandcenter at Virginia Commonwealth University to the Brandcenter Masters students, undergraduate VCU advertising students, faculty and local professionals. While I spoke about my past and…

rosiesiman: Enter Sandman - Entirely on Kazoos.

Wed, 23 Feb 2011 14:22:06 -0500

rosiesiman:

Enter Sandman - Entirely on Kazoos.

mikearauz: What I think Obama is meeting with Jobs, Schmidt,...

Mon, 21 Feb 2011 12:55:05 -0500

mikearauz:

What I think Obama is meeting with Jobs, Schmidt, and Zuckerberg about - The Oatmeal

Going to CES is like being tased by technology … people...

Wed, 19 Jan 2011 16:05:58 -0500

Going to CES is like being tased by technology … people also get tased there.

"What you do simply serves as the proof of what you believe."

Wed, 27 Oct 2010 11:26:45 -0400

“What you do simply serves as the proof of what you believe.”

- Simon Sinek

In a meeting today I was told that this was a must watch video...

Wed, 27 Oct 2010 11:05:41 -0400

In a meeting today I was told that this was a must watch video … man was that good advice.

"Content and technology are strange bed fellows. We are joined together. Sometimes we misunderstand..."

Thu, 21 Oct 2010 12:12:46 -0400

“Content and technology are strange bed fellows. We are joined together. Sometimes we misunderstand each other. But isn’t that after all the definition of marriage?”

- Howard Stringer

Bloomberg Game Changers: Steve Jobs

Mon, 18 Oct 2010 10:14:24 -0400

Bloomberg Game Changers: Steve Jobs

I hate System of a Down but this is a badass performance!

Thu, 14 Oct 2010 17:06:15 -0400

I hate System of a Down but this is a badass performance!

The Time Is Ripe For A Chief Marketing Technologist

Tue, 12 Oct 2010 11:28:49 -0400

The Time Is Ripe For A Chief Marketing Technologist:

Another interesting post on the need for Chief Marketing Technologists.

adlandupstart: via The Planning Lab

Tue, 12 Oct 2010 11:09:57 -0400

adlandupstart:

via The Planning Lab

{Something Existing} + {Special Sauce} = {Innovation}

Tue, 12 Oct 2010 11:05:00 -0400

As I’ve mentioned before, invention scares the crap out of me. Some people do very well in situations that are devoid of constraint or necessary objective. I’m not one of those people. I find that I thrive when I’m taking something existing and searching for what I’ll call special sauce to create something interesting.

Case in point, recently Google released the source for a project dubbed Liquid Galaxy. Liquid Galaxy consists of “eight 55-inch LCD screens showing Google Earth in a unified, surround view.” With the source provided by Google you can create your own setup with as few as 2 screens. I absolutely love that Google released this into the wild because it’s a perfect platform, i.e. something existing, for improvisation.

A quick look through the Google Earth API documentation reveals a variety of ways to augment the traditional Google Earth experience. What follows is far from an exhaustive list, but gives you an idea of the different ways to work with the system.

Balloons - Balloons are information windows displayed in the Google Earth Plugin, optionally associated with a feature.
Layers & Controls - Layers contain additional information that is draped over the base Google Earth imagery layer. Navigation controls allow the user to pan, tilt, and zoom using controls superimposed on the viewport
Touring - The Google Earth Plugin can play tours authored in KML, allowing viewers to interact with the Earth environment while viewing scripted, controlled tours.

This is the point at which I start to get excited and ask some questions:

What data sources become more valuable when integrated into geolocated environment?
What experiences can be accentuated by an immersive experience like this?
Is this tool meant to be used in informational, educational, entertaining, and/or utilitarian executions?
What can be done before or after interacting with this setup that will enrich the experience?
Given that it can work with applications other than Google Earth, what else would benefit from this immersive environment?

I’m hoping that I’ll be able to get one of these setup at my office soon, if only to serve as a platform for answering some of the questions above. I also hope that things like Liquid Galaxy will help people to understand that some of the greatest things happen with technology when you share your work and ask the world to do remarkable things with it. If we all spent our time trying to create something new, tons of opportunities would be missed to make existing things better.

Gorgeous Adaptive Video Visualization

Fri, 08 Oct 2010 12:29:11 -0400

Gorgeous Adaptive Video Visualization

The Flipboard Origin Story

Thu, 07 Oct 2010 14:57:43 -0400

The Flipboard Origin Story

I recently discovered the New York Times Company’s...

Thu, 07 Oct 2010 09:51:37 -0400

I recently discovered the New York Times Company’s “Rules of the Road” and can honestly say that I have never read a better distillation of what I think people should aspire to in business.

I made the image above based on their tenets and I’m going to hang it next to my monitor and try to live to the essence of these points.

I never thought I would be interested in the process of making...

Tue, 05 Oct 2010 19:40:24 -0400

I never thought I would be interested in the process of making ink but was captivated by this video.