Google is sunsetting Gears in favor of HTML5!

by Steffan Berelowitz

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Steffan Berelowitz founded Bit Group, Inc. in 1995, and over its 14-year history has helped to develop a client list of Fortune 500, mid-market and emerging businesses. In addition to his responsibilities at Bit Group, Steffan served as a trustee of the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council (MA Software Council) from 2001-2006. Steffan served on the board of directors of the Jewish Community Centers of Greater Boston as the chair of the advisory board of the Center for Information Technology of Hebrew College. Steffan is a member of the Boston College Technology Council. He is also a member of the Technology Network, a national network of senior executives from the nation's leading technology companies. Steffan served as an Internet consultant to former senator and presidential candidate Senator Bill Bradley. A graduate of Boston College, Steffan has spent the past 15 years in online services and technology. In 1993, Steffan was one of the key founders of ArtNet.

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December 3rd, 2009

HTML5 may be the biggest innovation in browser technology since… perhaps Netscape.  It’s really a game changer.  I was fascinated to read that Google will be sunsetting Gears in favor HTML5 , though it makes sense given that one of HTML5 coolest features is that it’s designed to support the sometimes connected computer.  This means [...]

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Google may be about to change the way we use e-mail.

by Steffan Berelowitz

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Steffan Berelowitz founded Bit Group, Inc. in 1995, and over its 14-year history has helped to develop a client list of Fortune 500, mid-market and emerging businesses. In addition to his responsibilities at Bit Group, Steffan served as a trustee of the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council (MA Software Council) from 2001-2006. Steffan served on the board of directors of the Jewish Community Centers of Greater Boston as the chair of the advisory board of the Center for Information Technology of Hebrew College. Steffan is a member of the Boston College Technology Council. He is also a member of the Technology Network, a national network of senior executives from the nation's leading technology companies. Steffan served as an Internet consultant to former senator and presidential candidate Senator Bill Bradley. A graduate of Boston College, Steffan has spent the past 15 years in online services and technology. In 1993, Steffan was one of the key founders of ArtNet.

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June 1st, 2009

Check out Google Wave, perhaps the biggest e-mail innovation since the 1990’s switch form Pine to desktop e-mail. See http://wave.google.com, the video is about 1hr 20min. The short story is that Google has created some really amazing innovations rendered in HTML 5.0 (which is also about to change the way you view the Web). [...]

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Breakdown of Daily Twitter Trends

by Dan Sullivan

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April 28th, 2009

I put together a quick breakdown of the top ten twitter stories, and thought it might be worth sharing.

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Names are crazy

by Alex Mekelburg

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April 17th, 2009

While doing a little research on internationalization of forms, I came across this post:

http://rishida.net/blog/?p=100

It’s a good overview of how varried naming conventions are across the world, and also links to a number of detailed wikipedia articles about particular cultures and their names.

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Images even a thumb can love

by Steffan Berelowitz

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Steffan Berelowitz founded Bit Group, Inc. in 1995, and over its 14-year history has helped to develop a client list of Fortune 500, mid-market and emerging businesses. In addition to his responsibilities at Bit Group, Steffan served as a trustee of the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council (MA Software Council) from 2001-2006. Steffan served on the board of directors of the Jewish Community Centers of Greater Boston as the chair of the advisory board of the Center for Information Technology of Hebrew College. Steffan is a member of the Boston College Technology Council. He is also a member of the Technology Network, a national network of senior executives from the nation's leading technology companies. Steffan served as an Internet consultant to former senator and presidential candidate Senator Bill Bradley. A graduate of Boston College, Steffan has spent the past 15 years in online services and technology. In 1993, Steffan was one of the key founders of ArtNet.

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April 14th, 2009

There was a time when icons were just lowly functional images, to be seen, but not touched.  Their only human computer interaction comprised the occasional click of a mouse.  Well, that’s all over now baby!  Icons are all about touch these days, especially when it comes to iPhone applications.  Now we need to make clear [...]

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Facebook trends mirror epidemic pattern of growth and decline

by Steffan Berelowitz

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Steffan Berelowitz founded Bit Group, Inc. in 1995, and over its 14-year history has helped to develop a client list of Fortune 500, mid-market and emerging businesses. In addition to his responsibilities at Bit Group, Steffan served as a trustee of the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council (MA Software Council) from 2001-2006. Steffan served on the board of directors of the Jewish Community Centers of Greater Boston as the chair of the advisory board of the Center for Information Technology of Hebrew College. Steffan is a member of the Boston College Technology Council. He is also a member of the Technology Network, a national network of senior executives from the nation's leading technology companies. Steffan served as an Internet consultant to former senator and presidential candidate Senator Bill Bradley. A graduate of Boston College, Steffan has spent the past 15 years in online services and technology. In 1993, Steffan was one of the key founders of ArtNet.

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February 12th, 2009

As it turns out, according to research conducted by Chris Wilson at Slate and Prof. Lauren Ancel Meyers at the University of Texas, the “25 random things about me” trend on Facebook mirrors the “classic exponential growth of an epidemic curve.”  By way of background, many people on Facebook have been writing down 25 random [...]

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A Profound Personal Change

by George White

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February 9th, 2009

I’ve just started to realize how much having an iPhone has changed my life in the past couple of months. I wasn’t sure where I wanted to put this post, so I stuck it on my personal blog, but I figured I would link to it from here, too.
Suffice to say, I’m finding that having [...]

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Is there such a thing as too much data?

by Staci Dubovik

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December 30th, 2008

…not if it looks this great and provides hours of entertainment.
I’ve been meaning to write about my amazing experiences at The Future Of Web Design conference, so here’s my first snippet of fun industry related information I’d like to share with you:
One of the most memorable sites I saw was this: http://www.daytum.com
A home for collecting [...]

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The problem with the bubble metaphor.

by Steffan Berelowitz

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Steffan Berelowitz founded Bit Group, Inc. in 1995, and over its 14-year history has helped to develop a client list of Fortune 500, mid-market and emerging businesses. In addition to his responsibilities at Bit Group, Steffan served as a trustee of the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council (MA Software Council) from 2001-2006. Steffan served on the board of directors of the Jewish Community Centers of Greater Boston as the chair of the advisory board of the Center for Information Technology of Hebrew College. Steffan is a member of the Boston College Technology Council. He is also a member of the Technology Network, a national network of senior executives from the nation's leading technology companies. Steffan served as an Internet consultant to former senator and presidential candidate Senator Bill Bradley. A graduate of Boston College, Steffan has spent the past 15 years in online services and technology. In 1993, Steffan was one of the key founders of ArtNet.

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October 9th, 2008

Having been a Web consultant since 1995, I have learned a thing or two about bubbles.  As the dotcom era of the 1990s transitioned from irrational exuberance to disillusionment, the most important common denominator was the irrationality of both extremes. In recent years, Web 2.0 and social computing have driven a wave of investment with [...]

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How to kill your burgeoning business in 5 easy steps

by George White

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September 27th, 2008

Say you have a new, wildly successful platform, the new hotness. Everyone wants to buy the hardware and developers can’t wait to get on board. You’ve set up a nifty distribution channel and things are rollig along. So, how do you make it fail?

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