September 2011
Maker Faire Visits NYC, R/GA Visits Maker Faire
This past weeked the Maker Faire visited NYC. Landing at the Hall of Science in Queens – an attraction that’s worth visiting the other 51 weekends of the year – this sprawling celebration of makers and the things they make filled my heart with geeky joy. Looking for a giant iron fire breathing dragon that […]
Metro Apps – An opportunity to reach 250 million machines
At the BUILD conference this week, Microsoft unveiled the closely guarded secret that is Windows 8. Understanding that the landscape of computer-mediated devices and services is evolving rapidly, Microsoft has taken a new tack while remaining on the course of offering backward compatibility. They say that any computer problem can be solved by adding another […]
Lessons Learned with a Global Team using Agile
A global, multi-vendor project using the agile methodology – 6 different teams in 4 different time zones – and though there were many opportunities for the process to falter, it ended up being one of the most inspiring, collaborative and successful projects I’ve been a part of. It was successful not in that it was […]
Upcoming R/GA talks
In the coming weeks, members of the R/GA Technology team will be appearing at several conferences. Join us live if you can and keep a lookout for commentary and pieces of their presentations appearing on the Tech Blog. UPDATE: We’ve added slides for “Selling the Mobile Web.” Breaking Development – September 12-14, Nashville, TN […]
An EPIC Twitter hack to analyze tweets in real-time
The NBA is synonymous with players having clutch moments and being the talk of everyone, especially on Twitter. With many talented athletes on NikeBasketball’s roster, EPIC visualizes those moments in real-time by ranking the NBA players according to each one’s tweets per hour calculation. Coming up with an accurate tweets per hour calculation for each […]
