Motorola Droid Giveaway

Posted by Pek in Monday, February 22nd 2010 under: Business, Technology Tags: twitter

I am giving away a free Motorola Droid no strings attached. I am not selling anything. You won’t have to sign up for magazine subscriptions or any memberships you don’t need. Just follow the instructions below to be entered to win this free Motorola Droid. Contest starts Monday February 22 9AM CST and ends February [...]

10 Elements of Viral Twitter Applications

Posted by Pek in Sunday, November 22nd 2009 under: Business Tags: presentation, slideshare, twitter

Here’s a modified version of the presentation I gave at SocialDevCamp Chicago on Nov 7.

10 Elements Of Viral Twitter Applications.Slideshare
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Using Twitter to Promote an Event Last Minute + Results

Posted by Pek in Tuesday, July 21st 2009 under: Business, Labs, Technology Tags: marketing, socialmedia, twitter

This evening I gave a talk for the Chicago Interactive Designers and Developers Meetup. I’ve been so busy lately that I did not think to promote it well in advance. As a result I didn’t get the word out about it until late in the afternoon today.
With tools like Twitter search and bit.ly, [...]

Twitter + Augmented Reality

Posted by Pek in Sunday, April 5th 2009 under: Labs, Technology Tags: API, AR, augmented reality, flash, Labs, papervision, pv3d, twitter

What happens when you put together Flash, Augmented Reality, Papervision3D, the Twitter API, and a bored geek? You get this little webcam demo of a Flash app that tracks a marker and displays a speech bubble with your latest tweet.

Although Augmented Reality (AR) has been around for a while now, cheap webcams, 3D on the [...]

DIYtraffic Realtime Traffic Alerts Via SMS

Posted by Pek in Wednesday, March 25th 2009 under: Technology Tags: API, mobile, services, sms, twitter

Here’s a project that my friend Dan Greenblatt has been working on. DIYtraffic is a free community based traffic alert system. Traffic updates via mobile phones have been around a while, but some of the cost money and there hasn’t been any unified platform.
DIYtraffic is an easy-to-configure application that alerts you to traffic problems [...]