Two Biggest Tech Disappointments Of 2009

A post on ReadWrite web today outlines the “Top 10 Failures of 2009“, and the top 2 are definitely my biggest disappointments also. Where are the Tablets? I was hugely excited about various tablet concepts to the point of swooning every time the rumor mill turned, and having been an early adapter of Boxee and streaming net content to your large home theater TV flat screen, I bought into some of the concepts of a flat Apple or Crunchpad tablet becoming the new  couch surfing, home media center, ueber iPhone, controller, e-reader, kindle killer gadget to own. I’m still...

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Six Steps For Using Twitter For Your Conference Or Event

Twitter Trumps Online Conference – Six Steps For Using Twitter For Your Conference Or Event I recently read the below post by Jeff Hurt (@JeffHurt) about the use of Twitter at conferences. My wife and I own a groupware collaboration company with a multi-input chat feature using hand-held wireless keyboards (see our partner site Positive Matrix), and we have been pondering how the advent of advanced Twitter tools is shaping the future of participatory and collaborative workshops. We will be posting more on this topic. I recently attended the American Society of Association...

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