As Co-Founder and CTO of FeedBurner which sold to Google back in 2007, Eric Lunt has experience building a successful tech startup into a business. Eric’s new venture, BrightTag, looks to ease the pain that publishers have with inserting ads, metrics and other includes into a web property. BrightTag creates a simple system that can be controlled…
Read MoreI’m a designer and front-end developer, and recently decided to build my own web app with little programming experience. On my own, I managed to build, design, and launch my first web app, an online directory of wedding invitation designers, in six weeks. Here’s how I did it and how you can too. 1. Know…
Read MoreAs a web developer I’ve noticed that over the past five to eight years, a trend to develop applications that can run ubiquitous of their environment. With the rising popularity of cloud computing and the emerging mobile markets, enterprise clients have started to move away from the model of building web applications that would only…
Read MoreLast weekend I had the privilege of participating in UX4Good. UX4Good is self-described as a: “wildly ambitious effort to design systemic solutions for some of the most vexing social challenges.” Produced by our agency partners Manifest Digital, the weekend brought together 40 top user experience designers and 10 gifted visual designers to participate in a…
Read MoreThere are currently thousands of photo applications in the Apple iTunes App Store. I just counted over 1,300 photography applications that have been released since June 2010. So this makes for a rather competitive landscape. But with all the selection, there are certain applications for certain situations. One photo app that has risen to the…
Read MoreClearspring, a mature startup based just outside of D.C., has been on a roll with both their audience platform and with AddThis. AddThis offers a number of sharing options and collects a ton of data about sharing on the Web. In doing so they have touched the lives of a billion users. This past week,…
Read MoreLike it or not, accept it or not, we are different. We read RSS. We use Twitter, Facebook, and any other bright, shiny, social media and various other tools we find along our travels of the interwebs. But it is vital to remember that as an entrepreneur building a new product, YOU ARE NOT MAINSTREAM….
Read MoreI am a huge fan of Mad Men, the show of the ad men and women of the 1960′s. In the series the main character, Don Draper, is a self proclaimed genius at figuring out what people really want and presenting them with an ad and a product. Throughout the series, the ad agencies are…
Read MoreMany people don’t realize that there’s more to building mobile apps than just designing and developing them. In fact, roughly 30% of an app should focus on aspects outside of these areas. This includes, but is not limited to, doing some initial research about similar apps, understanding key differentiators, and outlining potential functionality. This type…
Read MorePageLime, a DC-based startup, offers a new web Content Management System (CMS) allowing anyone to easily maintain the content within their existing websites. Their focus on ease-of-use is apparent from the start as the service requires no installation and no real code to integrate. That said, they are targeting designers and developers who are comfortable enough…
Read MoreIf candidates were required to pass an entrance exam for a career in marketing, the test would have historically included the following analogy: Content :: Design as Substance :: Style. “Business thinking” and “creative thinking” have long been considered discrete disciplines, complementary at best (think: word-heavy Word-doc reports and taking on the task of “prettying…
Read MoreIn this interview, I’m chatting with Gregg and Tonya Tomlinson of fathead design, a Chicago based full service advertising and design agency. We discuss why design is important and what exactly makes up good design. Gregg and Tonya started fathead design over a decade ago, and have long lasting relationships with many of their original…
Read MoreYesterday, I attended the Big Ideas Big Action (or BIBA) event in Washington, D.C. hosted by iStrategyLabs and FedScoop. The event exuded quirkiness, filled with Playdoh, blow up beach balls and dinosaurs, Etch-n-Sketch, Legos and more as it brought together a blended crowd of creatives, entrepreneurs, government officials and marketers from the Washington, D.C. region….
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