New smart phone app can settle tabs at bars and eateries | News for Dallas, Texas | Dallas Morning News | Dallas Business News. At least a half-dozen North Texas bars and restaurants have begun using software that allows patrons to pay their bill, including tip and tax, with their smart phones. Called TabbedOut, the software is the latest incarnation of what for years has been the Holy Grail of the restaurant industry: a secure, cost efficient way for consumers to ante up without having to watch their credit cards disappear with the server into a back room. With the rapid growth of smart phones - think iPhone, Droid and BlackBerry - experts expect to see restaurant and bar patrons increasingly reaching for mobile money instead of a wallet. "We're looking to change the way people pay at restaurants and bars," said Rick Orr, co-founder and chief executive of Austin-based ATX Innovation Inc., which launched TabbedOut in Austin in January and expanded to Dallas in the spring.
"That's the only part of society where the customer ... is forced to hand over their card to someone they've never met. •Lucky Lou's, Denton. Talking Tradigital. What excites me most about the future of marketing? That's easy: tradigital. Not just because I enjoy the crafty nature of neologism, but because I'm captivated by the artful venture of respecting traditional branding ideas in the face of a new digital reality. It's what a whole new breed of tradigital agencies is all about. Today's digitally savvy consumer has little interest in allowing you to define how he or she will experience a brand. They're people who do things on their terms. If they sense you're trying to push them towards any sort of conclusion, they pull away. Consider the Web, and how our thinking has evolved. This is where traditional agencies struggle -- square peg, round hole. On the flip side, digital marketers aren't all studs either.
What people will then ask is, "What can we expect from tradigital? " The first question is a bit easier to answer. A tradigital agency is the model of efficiency and efficacy. Here's the way the process works. Continue to next page → What the Heck is a Creative Technologist? « Mark Avnet. What the Heck is a Creative Technologist? Mark Avnet, Creative Technologist, VCU Brandcentermark.avnet@convergingarts.com, @mavnet Back in the 90s, the first time “convergence” was brought up as an important idea, I was asked as a “new media expert” to write an article on its importance – and found just about as many definitions for the term as places I looked. When I was part of a panel of psychologists defining “media psychology,” again, we found that just about everyone using the term defined it differently.
Same with “engagement.” These still remain relatively loosely described constructs, words or phrases that, to quote Carroll’s Humpty Dumpty, “mean exactly what [we] choose it to mean – neither more nor less.” We’re at a similar point with the term “creative technology.” My Take Here’s my take on it. They sketch with technology, just like a visual creative can sketch with a pencil.
Creative technologists share a creative and inquisitive view of the world. But Where do I Put Them? What the Web of Tomorrow Will Look Like: 4 Big Trends to Watch. The Social Analyst is a weekly column by Mashable Co-Editor Ben Parr, where he digs into social media trends and how they are affecting companies in the space.
Did you know that it's been nearly twenty years since the first website was placed online? Have you ever thought about how the Internet and the web have evolved in time? Ponder it: the Internet, a complex series of interconnected networks, protocols, servers, cables, and computers, has evolved from its early days as U.S. Department of Defense research project into the foundation for the World Wide Web, what we use today to interact with one another via browsers, email, Twitter, Skype, and millions of other online tools. As we approach the imminent launch of the Apple Tablet and analyze new trends coming out of out of this year's Consumer Electronics Show (our full coverage), now is good time to reflect on what the web will look like in the next decade — and beyond. 1.
Nationwide Wi-Fi is the more exciting prospect, though. 2. 3. 4. Modern Element Trends In Minimal Webdesign of 2010. As you may heard, I’ve been working on site redesign for a long time already and now I am deeply researching modern elements in minimal webdesign - I decided to share my research with all of you. I think this modern&minimal trend will rule for some time, time for loud elements and web 2.0 cheap shiny badges has been long gone – time for subtle emphasis, accents, big and stylish fonts, lightly textured backgrounds,grids, lots of negative space, usage of icons.
We cannot deny also huge technological possibilities with CSS3, HTML5, jQuery allowing you to do things which were impossible like 2–3 years ago. I also read IE6 is finally nearing extinction so we have one pain less from our shoulder and we can focus more on design and clean code! What’s interesting this trend isn’t even minimal fully – while it has lots of white spice, you will still see some light textures, icons, bold fonts. Before we start I would like to drop down the most important features of modern minimal webdesign style: