Tag Archives: Mobile

Unintentional Swearing? There Are Apps for That…

Posted on October 27, 2011 by Dennis Ryan

This is my iPhone screen.  Read the third line down from left to right.  Totally serendipitous profanity.  Who knew? And yeah, I know; I have some phone calls to return… By Dennis Ryan, CCO, Olson Bookmark It Hide Sites

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Powering Down…

Posted on June 23, 2011 by Dennis Ryan

People blog for all sorts of reasons; the discipline of daily writing, the joy of self expression, the fleeting sensation of relevance when a couple hundred people read a post. Over the past two years, I’ve blogged every weekday for … Continue reading →

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A Big Idea. No, Seriously, This is BIG.

Posted on December 2, 2010 by Dennis Ryan

As in, a giant, table-sized iPhone. This news story has been popping up all over the web, along with allegations that it could be a total scam.  Apparently three Austrian Apple fans/development geeks spent the past two years developing a … Continue reading →

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Is Mobile The Future of Advertising…or Couponing?

Posted on November 22, 2010 by Dennis Ryan

For the past couple of years, the advertising industry has heard the steadily-rising drumbeat for mobile–how it, along with geo-tagging and participation marketing, is going to change our industry. It makes sense.  Everyone carries a cell phone these days and … Continue reading →

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So Steve Jobs Stumbled As He Introduced the New iPhone Yesterday…

Posted on June 8, 2010 by Dennis Ryan

All I can say is “welcome to my world.” The fact that intermittent wireless access interrupted his planned presentation just puts him in line with the rest of us who depend on technology to work 24/7. As much as I … Continue reading →

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There’s An App for That, And This App Gives 20% Off

Posted on November 6, 2009 by Dennis Ryan

Two separate news stories about the iPhone popped up last night.  The first from PC World announces that Apple’s App Store just posted the 100,000th app for the iPhone.  That’s a breathtaking amount of software options for a phone, though … Continue reading →

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A Huge Television (and Online and Mobile) Audience Is There For Your Ad, But You Still Gotta Earn It

Posted on May 21, 2009 by Dennis Ryan

We’re still watching.  Actually, we’re watching more than ever.  The three-screen audience for video content has never been larger or more active, that is, if you define ‘active’ as sitting still and watching other people do things. For advertisers, that’s … Continue reading →

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CONTEXT: Advertising’s Next Creative Frontier

Posted on February 11, 2009 by Dennis Ryan

TV commercials, print ads, posters, radio spots, banners, rich media, long form: most creatives can generate competent content once they develop a feel for the format.  The challenge of content boils down to narrative or stylistic innovation and surprise. But content won’t … Continue reading →

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