http://www.themichaelschneider.com a blog about technology and analysis Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:44:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Dear Apple: I am writing to express my disappointment in the Apple 3G White 16GB iPhone. I have found areas of the iPhone to be inferior to my previous smart phone, the Treo 650p. As most would agree, Apple is a visionary organization known for pushing the limits of user ... http://www.themichaelschneider.com/technology/iphone-battery-life-an-open-letter-to-apple/62/ re: @chrisbrogan's tweet: chrisbrogan Is Twitter an intern-level responsibility for a business? http://tinyurl.com/5u75pe . Look@comments Like anything with Twitter, the more transparent you are, the better. It depends on the social media related goals of the company. I see pros and cons to this dip-your-toe-in-before-jumping-in strategy. If the intern is twizzlin' to ... http://www.themichaelschneider.com/socialmedia/should-an-intern-operate-your-corporate-twitter-account/61/ I figure that Google must be close to having some technology that can actually distinguish the voices in a film or video from the music track. I would guess they can use their text-to-speech capabilities to listen to video content and save either the entire contents or a set ... http://www.themichaelschneider.com/technology/discussion-google-must-be-close-to-indexing-video-content/59/ Americans enjoy statistics, action and scoring in their sports. I think that Americans are not into soccer because they try to compare it to their own version of Football. Soccer is a thinking man's game. It can be slow to develop, but the developments in the game are ... http://www.themichaelschneider.com/culture/5-reasons-americans-would-like-soccer/57/ Remember when you were a kid and you watched the Dukes of Hazzard every week with your family? Or how about getting really psyched around the holidays partially because of the specials? The scheduling, the anticipation, the holding your bathroom breaks until the ads. The "bust out the popcorn" as Jeff ... http://www.themichaelschneider.com/socialmedia/permissiontv-enables-non-linear-entertainment/55/ I have been very vocal about my disdain for the MBTA, particularly over the past winter when they were significantly late nearly every day. When asked about why, they flat out lied to us about why they were late and we later found out that the conductors themselves were ... http://www.themichaelschneider.com/socialmedia/the-social-media-effect-businesses-engaging-on-twitter/52/ Seeking Developers For as long as you can remember you have been into computers and programming. You spend most of your day connected via your desktop, laptop or device. You sometimes solve coding problems in your sleep and then implement your solutions when you wake up. Even though you ... http://www.themichaelschneider.com/technology/boston-digital-developers-java-net-lamp/49/ Matt Rogers emailed me a about great article on best practices for companies using agencies by Sam Decker. The article is called 6 Best Practices for Agencies. The article summarizes some of Sam's experiences using 10 or more agencies and technology service providers. This (combined with Matt's suggestion) ... http://www.themichaelschneider.com/socialmedia/what-makes-a-good-client/47/ On June 30, 2008, Google quietly made one of the largest non announcements the organic search space has seen. It lacked the visibility of "No Luke, I am your Father", but has elicited the same kind of response from all of the web geeks that I have given the ... http://www.themichaelschneider.com/technology/google-reads-and-crawls-flash/45/ When talking to marketing managers, the subject of segmentation often comes up. The conversation can seem forced and usually takes a turn from casual talk about business to a certain bitter formality, probably because now we're talking about data. These marketing managers have never tasted our variety of data! Theirs ... http://www.themichaelschneider.com/design/3-steps-to-actionable-segmentation-awesomeness/43/