Technology
An Insider’s Account of Nerdy Derby at MakerFaire 2012
At the 2012 World Maker Faire at the New York Hall of Science in Queens, makers of all walks once again converged to share their passion, see interesting and/or odd projects and to participate in this burgeoning movement. One of the exhibits which captured all of these aspects was the Nerdy Derby. Nerdy Derby is […]
The XOXO Festival
This past weekend, I spent four days in Portland, OR at the XOXO Festival. Billed as “an arts and technology festival celebrating disruptive creativity,” it brought together 400 minds in one space to share and discuss our work. The conference talks and themes have been thoroughly and thoughtfully covered by Anil Dash, the NYTimes, BoingBoing […]
It’s Time We Got Excited for the Self Driving Car
It’s hard to think of an imminent technology that will have more of an effect on our lives than the self driving car. The world we live in is built around the idea that we drive somewhere, leave the car in a parking spot, do something, then get in the same car and drive home. We take […]
Progress for Prosthetic Knees
The elevator door opens and a squat Latino man almost kicks my head off. Odd as it may sound, this is a pleasant greeting at the office where I have come to obtain a new prosthetic leg. Martin is a single leg below-the-knee amputee with a black belt in Karate, and his feisty roundhouse kick […]
Introducing This Is Responsive
In the fast-paced world of responsive web design, one of the most frequent questions that we at R/GA get asked is “Where do I go to learn about this stuff?”. We’ve been tracking this information internally for a while now, and this month we made this resource publicly available for everyone at This Is Responsive, […]
The Turing Test of Feature Assessment
If the results of an advanced system are indistinguishable from fake results, is it worth investing in the system in the first place? It’s my observation the brightest marketing minds struggle with this question every day. From cross-selling strategies to data-visualization, inspired creative and technical teams waste precious resources devising complex systems that perform no […]
R/GA wins Best Mobile App at Facebook WorldHack Austin
Yesterday, two of us from R/GA attended the Facebook World Hack in Austin, a day long event where developers come together to spend an entire day hacking and building projects using the latest Facebook technology. Facebook is doing these hacks in 12 cities around the world, and Austin is the only hack happening in the […]
R/GA’s SXSW Panel Proposals
Is it 2013 yet? No, but the 2013 SXSW PanelPicker is now open for public voting, and several R/GAers are in the running. By clicking through to the proposals below, we’re hoping that you are inspired to vote and help make the presentation ideas a reality in 2013. Enjoy and thanks! Richard Goldsmith – Requiem for a Brony: Keep Social Media Weird! Brad Frost – […]
Twitter Tea Time: What’s Happening at Twitter
Over the last couple of months Twitter has been hosting a series of events for developers in their San Francisco HQ. However, because they felt they were excluding a lot of developers that work with their platform they started to sponsor Developer Teatime to share insight with the community and help spread more knowledge of […]
Mike Scoops the Popular Press
Six months ago we published: “Comparing Food Trucks and Software Development” http://techblog.rga.com/software-as-a-food-truck And today InformationWeek publishes “What Food Trucks Can Teach IT Pros” http://www.informationweek.com/news/global-cio/interviews/240003234 Stay tuned for Mike’s stock market predictions…
