Last week, Disney Store of North America celebrated the opening of their first completely re-designed retail destination at The Shops at Montebello complex in Montebello, Calif., just outside of Los Angeles. Our COO, Daniel Odio, was there with the crowd of excited Disney fans to see the new digs and take a look at the interactive kiosks that we developed for the new Disney Store retail environment. Here’s some details from the official release: A… Read more »

Guy Vidra, who just left The Washington Post as the head of new media and mobile, spoke before a standing-room only crowd at1410Q to share his learning and thoughts on The Mobile Pyramid over his time at the Post.  Guy discussed The Washington Posts’s thoughts on SMS, The Mobile Web and iPhone, Android and Blackberry apps.  After Guy’s presentation, MobileTech, the mobile web vendor for The Washington Post, and PointAbout, the iPhone app vendor for The Washington Post, discussed both areas… Read more »

Many of you in the Washington, DC area may know about the Potomac Tech Wire, a very popular daily email newsletter that carries breaking local area news (if you don’t subscribe, you should – it’s very good). Paul, the CEO of Potomac Tech Wire, wanted to make an iPhone application, but didn’t have any RSS feeds. We turned to our friends at Posterous.com to turn Paul’s content into RSS feeds (this is a use of… Read more »

[vimeo 2800310] PointAbout, in a partnership with FortiusOne, added a User Generated Content (UGC) component to its 2009 Inauguration Application called “Speak Your Mind” which lets users of the application answer a series of questions, and then view how their answers compare to the entire USA with FortiusOne’s visual analytics mapping tools.   The stunning power of mobile User Generated Content (UGC): We’ve just today made this system live at www.NavigatingWashington.com and it’s already starting… Read more »