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I’mOK Mobile App Rewards Kids for Checking In — With Parents

geo — Fri, 06 May 2011 00:43:46 +0000

Imok is a mobile app that rewards kids for taking responsibility for staying connected. By sharing their location, taking pictures, tagging friends, and telling you what’s up, your kids earn points that can be exchanged for things you’ve agreed to, like spending money or special privileges.

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Tags: app, apps, imok, kids, Mobile, mobile phone, parenting, start-up, start-ups, tech, teens

Verizon Wireless B2B: Marin (Video)

geo — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 21:37:30 +0000

Marin business owner.

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Verizon Wireless Business to Business Camera Tests

Marin

Baltimore

Chicago

Kansas

Big City's Work for McGarryBowen Agency

Lobster Roll Wins Guinness World Record with Kraft Miracle Whip

Kraft Miracle Whip Lobster Roll Spot :60

Kraft Miracle Whip Lobster Roll Spot :15

Maya Angelou 2008 Olympic Poem "Amazement Awaits"

Marriott In-Room Video

Reebok Fit - Inspirational Video

Reebok Fit - Follow-Up Inspirational Video

Reebok Sports Brand: The Sport of Lifestyle

Maya Angelou Libraries Greeting

Marriott: Driven Campaign Behind The Scenes

Chevron Shanghai Expo 2010

Verizon Wireless B2B Talent Interviews

Chase Blueprint Talent Interviews

JPMC Community Development Banking Spots

Verizon Wireless B2B Talent Interviews Gear

Canon EOS 7D 18 MP CMOS Digital SLR Camera

Tokina 11-16 f2.8 Ultra Wide Angle Lens

Nikon 28mm f2.8 Lens

Nikon 50mm f1.4 Lens

Nikon 105mm f1.8 Lens

Zeiss ZE SLR Planar 50mm Lens T1.4

Zeiss ZE SLR Planar 85mm Lens T1.4

Canon EF 135mm f/2L II USM Telephoto Lens

Microdolly Hollywood

Marshall V-LCD651ST-HDA 6.5" LCD Field Monitor

Samson H4 Handy Recorder

Lectro UM200c Wireless Receiver & Transmitter

Tram TR50 Lavalier Microphone

Pluraleyes Audio Sync Software for Multicam

Final Cut Pro Non-Linear Editing System

Tags: advertising, b2b, business, business to business, Marin, McGarry Bowen Agency, McGarryBowen, McGarryBowen Agency, Mobile, verizon, verizon wireless

Verizon Wireless B2B: Baltimore (Video)

geo — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 21:20:14 +0000

Baltimore business owner.

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Verizon Wireless Business to Business Camera Tests

Marin

Baltimore

Chicago

Kansas

Big City's Work for McGarryBowen Agency

Lobster Roll Wins Guinness World Record with Kraft Miracle Whip

Kraft Miracle Whip Lobster Roll Spot :60

Kraft Miracle Whip Lobster Roll Spot :15

Maya Angelou 2008 Olympic Poem "Amazement Awaits"

Marriott In-Room Video

Reebok Fit - Inspirational Video

Reebok Fit - Follow-Up Inspirational Video

Reebok Sports Brand: The Sport of Lifestyle

Maya Angelou Libraries Greeting

Marriott: Driven Campaign Behind The Scenes

Chevron Shanghai Expo 2010

Verizon Wireless B2B Talent Interviews

Chase Blueprint Talent Interviews

JPMC Community Development Banking Spots

Verizon Wireless B2B Talent Interviews Gear

Canon EOS 7D 18 MP CMOS Digital SLR Camera

Tokina 11-16 f2.8 Ultra Wide Angle Lens

Nikon 28mm f2.8 Lens

Nikon 50mm f1.4 Lens

Nikon 105mm f1.8 Lens

Zeiss ZE SLR Planar 50mm Lens T1.4

Zeiss ZE SLR Planar 85mm Lens T1.4

Canon EF 135mm f/2L II USM Telephoto Lens

Microdolly Hollywood

Marshall V-LCD651ST-HDA 6.5" LCD Field Monitor

Samson H4 Handy Recorder

Lectro UM200c Wireless Receiver & Transmitter

Tram TR50 Lavalier Microphone

Pluraleyes Audio Sync Software for Multicam

Final Cut Pro Non-Linear Editing System

Tags: advertising, b2b, Baltimore, business, business to business, McGarry Bowen Agency, McGarryBowen, McGarryBowen Agency, Mobile, verizon, verizon wireless

Verizon Wireless B2B: Chicago (Video)

geo — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 21:07:01 +0000

Chicago business owner.

_________________________________________________________________________________

Verizon Wireless Business to Business Camera Tests

Marin

Baltimore

Chicago

Kansas

Big City's Work for McGarryBowen Agency

Lobster Roll Wins Guinness World Record with Kraft Miracle Whip

Kraft Miracle Whip Lobster Roll Spot :60

Kraft Miracle Whip Lobster Roll Spot :15

Maya Angelou 2008 Olympic Poem "Amazement Awaits"

Marriott In-Room Video

Reebok Fit - Inspirational Video

Reebok Fit - Follow-Up Inspirational Video

Reebok Sports Brand: The Sport of Lifestyle

Maya Angelou Libraries Greeting

Marriott: Driven Campaign Behind The Scenes

Chevron Shanghai Expo 2010

Verizon Wireless B2B Talent Interviews

Chase Blueprint Talent Interviews

JPMC Community Development Banking Spots

Verizon Wireless B2B Talent Interviews Gear

Canon EOS 7D 18 MP CMOS Digital SLR Camera

Tokina 11-16 f2.8 Ultra Wide Angle Lens

Nikon 28mm f2.8 Lens

Nikon 50mm f1.4 Lens

Nikon 105mm f1.8 Lens

Zeiss ZE SLR Planar 50mm Lens T1.4

Zeiss ZE SLR Planar 85mm Lens T1.4

Canon EF 135mm f/2L II USM Telephoto Lens

Microdolly Hollywood

Marshall V-LCD651ST-HDA 6.5" LCD Field Monitor

Samson H4 Handy Recorder

Lectro UM200c Wireless Receiver & Transmitter

Tram TR50 Lavalier Microphone

Pluraleyes Audio Sync Software for Multicam

Final Cut Pro Non-Linear Editing System

Tags: advertising, b2b, business, business to business, Chicago, McGarry Bowen Agency, McGarryBowen, McGarryBowen Agency, Mobile, verizon, verizon wireless

Verizon Wireless B2B: Kansas (Video)

geo — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 20:36:09 +0000

Kansas business owner.

_________________________________________________________________________________

Verizon Wireless Business to Business Camera Tests

Marin

Baltimore

Chicago

Kansas

Big City's Work for McGarryBowen Agency

Lobster Roll Wins Guinness World Record with Kraft Miracle Whip

Kraft Miracle Whip Lobster Roll Spot :60

Kraft Miracle Whip Lobster Roll Spot :15

Maya Angelou 2008 Olympic Poem "Amazement Awaits"

Marriott In-Room Video

Reebok Fit - Inspirational Video

Reebok Fit - Follow-Up Inspirational Video

Reebok Sports Brand: The Sport of Lifestyle

Maya Angelou Libraries Greeting

Marriott: Driven Campaign Behind The Scenes

Chevron Shanghai Expo 2010

Verizon Wireless B2B Talent Interviews

Chase Blueprint Talent Interviews

JPMC Community Development Banking Spots

Verizon Wireless B2B Talent Interviews Gear

Canon EOS 7D 18 MP CMOS Digital SLR Camera

Tokina 11-16 f2.8 Ultra Wide Angle Lens

Nikon 28mm f2.8 Lens

Nikon 50mm f1.4 Lens

Nikon 105mm f1.8 Lens

Zeiss ZE SLR Planar 50mm Lens T1.4

Zeiss ZE SLR Planar 85mm Lens T1.4

Canon EF 135mm f/2L II USM Telephoto Lens

Microdolly Hollywood

Marshall V-LCD651ST-HDA 6.5" LCD Field Monitor

Samson H4 Handy Recorder

Lectro UM200c Wireless Receiver & Transmitter

Tram TR50 Lavalier Microphone

Pluraleyes Audio Sync Software for Multicam

Final Cut Pro Non-Linear Editing System

Tags: advertising, b2b, business, business to business, Kansas, McGarry Bowen Agency, McGarryBowen, McGarryBowen Agency, Mobile, verizon, verizon wireless

We Did It: Verizon Wireless B2B Talent Interviews (Photos)

geo — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 19:59:53 +0000

We conducted, shot and edited these interview videos with small business owners in the development of some new spots for Verizon Wireless Business to Business.

MARIN

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BALTIMORE

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CHICAGO

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KANSAS

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Big City's Work for McGarryBowen Agency

Lobster Roll Wins Guinness World Record with Kraft Miracle Whip

Kraft Miracle Whip Lobster Roll Spot :60

Kraft Miracle Whip Lobster Roll Spot :15

Maya Angelou 2008 Olympic Poem "Amazement Awaits"

Marriott In-Room Video

Reebok Fit - Inspirational Video

Reebok Fit - Follow-Up Inspirational Video

Reebok Sports Brand: The Sport of Lifestyle

Maya Angelou Libraries Greeting

Marriott: Driven Campaign Behind The Scenes

Chevron Shanghai Expo 2010

Verizon Wireless B2B Talent Interviews

Chase Blueprint Talent Interviews

JPMC Community Development Banking Spots

Verizon Wireless B2B Talent Interviews Gear

Canon EOS 7D 18 MP CMOS Digital SLR Camera

Tokina 11-16 f2.8 Ultra Wide Angle Lens

Nikon 28mm f2.8 Lens

Nikon 50mm f1.4 Lens

Nikon 105mm f1.8 Lens

Zeiss ZE SLR Planar 50mm Lens T1.4

Zeiss ZE SLR Planar 85mm Lens T1.4

Canon EF 135mm f/2L II USM Telephoto Lens

Microdolly Hollywood

Marshall V-LCD651ST-HDA 6.5" LCD Field Monitor

Samson H4 Handy Recorder

Lectro UM200c Wireless Receiver & Transmitter

Tram TR50 Lavalier Microphone

Pluraleyes Audio Sync Software for Multicam

Final Cut Pro Non-Linear Editing System

Tags: advertising, b2b, Baltimore, business, business to business, Chicago, Kansas, Marin, McGarry Bowen Agency, McGarryBowen, McGarryBowen Agency, Mobile, verizon, verizon wireless

Word Lens App Translates Languages Before Your Eyes

geo — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 14:29:58 +0000

Word Lens is an amazing new iPhone app that instantly translates language right before your eyes. Using the video camera on your iPhone, Word Lens can scan, for instance, the words on a sign or menu. The app then runs that text through optical character recognition software and displays the translated type in context. Because Word Lens looks up words in its onboard dictionary, you don’t need to be connected to the internet for the app to work; there is no delay, roaming fees, nor reception problems to contend with. It’s a $4.99 paid app, which for the moment offers only English to Spanish and Spanish to English translation.

Techcrunch reports that the app is the culmination of 2 1/2 years of work from founders Otavio Good and John DeWeese. Good says in the video below that he got the idea for the app when he was in a foreign country and couldn’t read the language on a sign. He thought to himself “why doesn’t my cellphone do this?” Now that the translator is complete and deployed to the App Store, Good notes that Word Lens is not perfect, but it usually gets the point across. It doesn’t work on handwritten type, very stylized fonts, or cursive. . Sometimes the translation will have mistakes, and may be hard to understand. If a translation fails, there is a way to manually look up words by typing them in.

Tags: Apple Inc., apps, gadget, gizmo, international, ios, language, Mobile, smart phone, smartphone, tech, technology, translation, translator

iPhone 4 Shoots 100% of Photo + Video for a Wedding

geo — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 14:08:08 +0000

In an ongoing series of photographic firsts for Apple’s iPhone 4 smartphone, wedding of videographer Rainer Flor and wedding photographer Brian Adams teamed up to shoot the entire wedding in November using only the device for both photo and video.

The creators explained the process on their site, iPhoneShooters:

Adams used two iPhone 4s to shoot pictures. Flor’s associate videographer also used an iPhone 4. Housings were used for the phones that allowed them to change lenses, as well as provided handles and mounts for a light, microphone and tripod. An assistant helped with lighting.

In a press release, Adams explained some of the advantages of using the iPhone 4 gear:

The phones are so small, it made it easy for us to be unobtrusive…. People were very comfortable around the small cameras. We were not an intrusion into their wedding.

According to Flor, he saw little difference between the quality of photos produced by a digital SLR and the iPhone 4.

Tags: apple, apps, camera app, iphone 4, Mobile, photography, photography app, romance, smart phone, wedding

Smartphone Cameras Capture Consumer Imagination, Cannibalize Point-and-Shoot Sales (Video)

geo — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 22:20:56 +0000

Smartphone Cameras Cannibalize Point-and-Shoot Sales

No surprise to us that NYT is reporting that point-and-shoot cameras are falling into disfavor amongst consumers, photo enthusiasts, as well as professional photographers. Bottom line is that a device such as an iPhone 4

1) has a megapixel camera rivaling many point-and-shoot cameras (you may want to shoot your entire wedding using iPhone 4s)
2) is always with you in your pocket and not back home on a shelf when you need it and
3) sharing photos through social networks or e-mail is a much easier, less technical process.

One person interviewed in the article is quoted as saying “It’s much easier to share those pictures with my friends… With my point-and-shoot, I have to plug it into my computer and upload the photos. It’s just a few more steps than I want to take.”

Cannibalization in the pocket-camera sector seems to be running in parallel with the downward sales trends of notebook computers. Just recently, notebook sales negative growth figures were charted by Fortune with iPad shouldering at least some of the blame while Best Buy CEO Brian Dunn was quoted as saying that “internal estimates showed that the iPad had cannibalized sales from laptop PCs, especially netbooks, by as much as 50%.” All of this seems to be fulfillment of Steve Jobs’ vision. Last summer the Apple CEO had some choice predictions about the eclipse of the PC by the likes of iPads and mobile smartphone devices.

As for the video included with the article which we have embedded above, we’ve got a note of constructive criticism for the producers over at The Times for improving the intended comedic effect of the clip. Early on when Times author Sam Grobart is doing a romantic break-up scene with his point-and-shoot camera, literally talking to the inanimate gadget, the video should cut a couple of times to the camera just sitting there. As if it had something to say it were in shock. To which Grobart would then “respond” to what was “said” by the camera in that shot. High-larity. Or at least just our 2-cents.

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iOS Devices are Cannibals

Smartphone Cameras Cannibalize Point-and-Shoot Sales (Video)

"Apple Cannibalizing Everything" Cult of Mac's Perspective

Best Buy CEO: iPad Cannibalizing Laptop PC Sales by 50%

iPad to Blame for Notebook Sales Negative Growth?

Steve Jobs Said So: iPad Will Replace PCs

Steve Jobs Said So: Origin of iPhone & iPad (Video)

iPhone 4 Shoots 100% of Photo + Video for a Wedding (Video)

iPhone 4 Macworld Cover Self-portrait (Video)

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Tags: camera, gadget, gizmo, iphone, megpixels, Mobile, mobile photography, new york times, nyt, point and shoot camera, smartphone, smartphone photography, smartphone video, Video

“Apple Cannibalizing Everything” Cult of Mac’s Perspective

geo — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 17:47:09 +0000

Cult of Mac brings some welcome perspective to the “Apple is cannibalizing everything” meme concluding that Apple hasn’t taken anything from netbooks, notebooks, PCs, hand-held gaming systems, newspapers or DVDs and incorporated what it has taken into its own products. Rather:

Apple is providing an alternative to these platforms and media, and some customers are choosing Apple’s alternative in cases where without Apple they would have presumably chosen the older model. That’s not cannibalism. That’s just capitalism.

Cult of Mac

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iOS Devices are Cannibals

Smartphone Cameras Cannibalize Point-and-Shoot Sales (Video)

"Apple Cannibalizing Everything" Cult of Mac's Perspective

Best Buy CEO: iPad Cannibalizing Laptop PC Sales by 50%

iPad to Blame for Notebook Sales Negative Growth?

Steve Jobs Said So: iPad Will Replace PCs

Steve Jobs Said So: Origin of iPhone & iPad (Video)

iPhone 4 Shoots 100% of Photo + Video for a Wedding (Video)

iPhone 4 Macworld Cover Self-portrait (Video)

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