Industry
High Schoolers Coding in NYC’s AFSE
Over the course of the past 3 months I’ve had the opportunity to visit NYC’s Academy for Software Engineering a few times. AFSE is a “high school for the design and development of software and applications”. The school’s curriculum is largely comprised of the standard high school courses. But AFSE differs in one major way – […]
Combinations in Weather Forecasting
Combinations are a big part of how we get things done at R/GA. From the Nike+ FuelBand to Google Wallet to McCormick Flavorprint, our greatest successes have come from interesting combinations of diverse people with varying skills. Combinations of ad tech and creative intuition. Combinations of ideas that create tension and, ultimately, breakthroughs that propel […]
Reflections on XOXO Fest: A Lesson In Bravery
Portland, Oregon hosted the 2nd annual XOXO Fest from Sept. 19th to the 22th. XOXO was originally born from a successful Kickstarter project created by Andy Baio and Andy McMillan. The conference is all about “independence” – shining a spotlight on independent creators and how they have turned traditional creation, business, and publishing models on their […]
NY’s Hardware Revolution
This guest post is authored by Haytham Elhaway, R/GA Accelerator for Connected Devices mentor and founder of the NY hardware startup meetup. You may not think of NY as a hub for hardware or connected devices, but behind the noise generated by our finance, media, fashion, and software industries there’s a nascent but thriving hardware scene that […]
Cast Your Vote For R/GA Panels At SXSW
The 2014 SXSW PanelPicker is now open for public voting, and several R/GAers and our partners have submitted presentation proposals. We’ve compiled a list of the proposals below. We hope you will be inspired to vote! Click through the links to find out more information about each topic: Allie Walker – Yo Dawg, Your Startup […]
Making Prescription Google Glass
After months of waiting, I got the coveted email inviting me to pick up my pair of Google Glasses. After my appointment at Google HQ, my celebration was brief because I struggled with how to deal with Google Glass and my own prescription glasses. I tried wearing both frames at once (disaster) and I tried […]
Mobile World Congress 2013 – Back from Barcelona, Unchanged
A strange thing didn’t happen in Barcelona this week. I arrived home, unchanged and I suspect 70,000 other folks had the same experience, or lack of it. The event was gigantic. The new exhibition space at Fira Gran Via was 94,000 square meters – that’s in the neighborhood of 10 American football fields. There were […]
Nick Law: Innovation is Not a Big Idea
In a recent opinion piece for Australia’s B&T magazine, Nick Law, R/GA’s EVP, Global Chief Creative Officer discussed innovation. Not innovation as a big idea, but as a different way of working. A way of working that’s difficult to do if you’re set in your ways. As Nick says, “When we talk about the transition […]
Connected-Devices, Node.js, Arduino, Responsive, NoSQL in a Box, and the ClockPareil
Some experts think connected-devices will increase productivity by several trillion dollars in the coming years. From jet turbines to industrial food processing machines, there are over three million different types of machines that can be controlled and maintained more efficiently with help from the internet. Hoping to learn more, I found time over the vacation to […]
Measuring Amazon AWS Uptime
Yesterday, for the second time in two years Techblog was offline most of the day due to an Amazon AWS service outage. That’s effectively, for business purposes, 364/365 = 99.726% uptime. 99.726 percent uptime isn’t a statistic we hear about (returns zero results on Google) because cloud hosting providers shine up the numbers the same way […]
