The Digital Life - out of the nest!

11.Jan.11
by Dirk Knemeyer

Today we launched our new website for The Digital Life show - which is where you will find the latest episode, as well as all future episodes. Bookmark it:

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Topics: Blog, Podcast

TDL - Episode 7

22.Dec.10
by Dirk Knemeyer

Year-End Spectacular. Special guest Juhan Sonin. Bull Session and It's News to Me.

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Topics: Blog, Podcast

TDL - Episode 6

09.Dec.10
by Dirk Knemeyer

Social Game Design. Special guests Brenda Brathwaite and Soren Johnson. Bull Session and It's News to Me.

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Topics: Blog, Podcast

TDL - Episode 5

23.Nov.10
by Dirk Knemeyer

"Design Thinking". Special guests Michael Dila and Peter Merholz. Face-Off and It's News to Me.

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Topics: Blog, Podcast

TDL – Episode 4

10.Nov.10
by Dirk Knemeyer

Mobile and the Future of Computing. Special guests Jim Leftwich and Luke Wroblewski (LukeW). Bull Session and It's News to Me.

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Topics: Blog, Podcast

Someday soon, your OS and browser will be the same thing

10.Nov.10
by Dirk Knemeyer

This week's much-ballyhoed launch of RockMelt is again getting the tech intelligentsia in a lather about a potential new browser. What they seem to be ignoring is that the battle has already been won and lost: the best case scenario for RockMelt is, romantically, they become a plucky cult favourite like Flock before running out of steam and sinking into obscurity; pragmatically, they are doing things so well and advanced that they are bought and assimilated by the companies who have already won this space.

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Topics: browser, Ideas, windows, microsoft, predictive, chrome, android, Analysis, Blog, os, software, apple. google

Knowledge comes from depth, not breadth

03.Nov.10
by Dirk Knemeyer

What search engines do best is immediately give us lots of scattershot information. It may be relevant, or it may not. It may be timely, or it may not. It may be useful, or it may not. While search engines used to be magic, as we become more mature users of connected computing devices, increasingly their results are clumsy. While it remains remarkable that they can bring us so much so quickly, the uneven nature of what they are providing is increasingly frustrating as we continue to expect more.

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Topics: search, content, Analysis, Blog

TDL - Episode 3

27.Oct.10
by Dirk Knemeyer

Reviews of the iPad, GoWear Fit and Dropbox. Special guest Juhan Sonin. Segments include: It's News to Me, FTW/WTF, Live From...

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Topics: Blog, Podcast

The Digital Life – Episode 2

14.Oct.10
by Dirk Knemeyer

This week's theme is Games and Learning.

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Topics: Blog, Podcast