by Jeff Yablon | Jan 19, 2012 | Business Process
In case there was any doubt in your mind, I Hate Texting. And while the little experiment we’re conducting at hatetexting.com hasn’t changed (it still looks like 1996 over there), neither has the point: way too often texting, useful though it can be, is...
by Jeff Yablon | Mar 8, 2011 | Business Process
How’d you like to do high resolution video calls through your high definition TV? How’d you like to spend way, way, way too much for the privelege? Then hustle out right now and buy yourself a Cisco ūmi. Not interested? No kidding. Five months ago, Cisco...
by Jeff Yablon | Oct 7, 2010 | Business Process, Design, Development
I have seen the future. And it certainly is not Cisco’s new video conferencing system. ūmi ( that’s its name) takes a cute enough idea and finds every possible way to break it. I won’t pick on that silly name. I’m sure it means something very...
by Jeff Yablon | Sep 7, 2010 | Business Process
Ignore for the moment that certain kinds of multitasking are just plain dangerous. Ditto the oft-documented fact that in general multi-tasking is a bad idea. If you do video calling, there’s a new problem with multi-tasking that you might not have thought about....
by Jeff Yablon | May 7, 2010 | Business Process, Media
This week I came across a survey that talks about people who text during sex. My immediate reaction was horror, thoughts about the decline of civilization, and the like. I thought about a piece I wrote last year when the results of a study on texting while driving...
