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12 iPhone Apps for Surviving Conference Season

12 iPhone Apps for Surviving Conference Season

This Mashable review was originally written for people attending conferences. But, if you're a creative on the road several of them could be indispensible in your travels. Use the Priceline Hotel Negotiator to get the best last minute deals. How many times have we all driven around looking for the nearest Panera Bread for WiFi access to download large files or layouts? Use Free Wifi Finder to find the nearest. You’ve run out of business cards and you need to give someone your contact info. Use beamME pro to send a Vcard. Last but not least use this little bread-crumb app, Glympse, to leave a trail so your client can follow you to location.

Mike Morawski
Chief Instigator

Did you Know?

After watching this presentation I was reminded of a saying from years gone by, “The faster I go the behinder I get”. The pace of progress is relentless. The pace of competition is relentless. The pace of change is relentless.

 

 

Either we change, adapt and learn or we’re going to be run over by the bus. Good words to remember for anyone who works in the creative business.

 

Mike Morawski

Chief Instigator

 

See who is using your images online.

Ever want to find out all the places on the web where your images are being used? A new service, www.tineye.com , might do the trick. Developed by Idee Inc., they are the same folks who do work for many stock image agencies and Adobe. Upload an image and within seconds the site does a reverse image lookup, scouring the web for all exact images and even similar images. I did a sample image search on a Mustang Ad shot by Roy Ritchie. Here’s the image that I uploaded:

 

And here are the results that were returned. 

 

You can see that the software is sophisticated enough to find images that are similar. In fact this is the exact same image just color shifted.

Unfortunately, Tineye is not completely foolproof. It did find the image that was running on the Money Talks blog.

It also completely missed the original article that the image appeared in on FastCompany’s web site.

 

The Tineye page states the software is in Beta, so we can only assume that it will get stronger as time goes by. In the meantime, this does provide a very good first step in an image lookup process.

Mike Morawski

Chief Instigator

 

  

Mike's Top Five most read Blog Posts of 2009

The 5 most read posts of 2009 were:

1.   What business is this guy really in?

You have to ask this question after you look at Alexx Henry’s work. He is redefining the definition of photographer.

2.   Clear the mechanism

Use this book to rediscover your creative self and visit these photographer’s Facebook pages to dip your toes in the Social Media waters.

3.   Two Twitter tools I like- so easy an agent can use them.

Apparently many of you were interested in this statement. I’m guessing that in your hearts you figured if yours truly could master them than it would be a snap for you.

4.   3 New CMO’s and 1 New VP of Advertising

Obviously everybody wants to know where new business opportunities can be found.

5.   The power of Thank You.

I have always said, we get the clients we deserve. Occasionally we get ones that are really wonderful to work for.

 

Mike Morawski

Chief Instigation Officer

 

What's the future of photography?

Time Inc. released a demo of what an issue of Sports Illustrated might look like on an e-Reader. They say this will be available in 2010. Holy Mackerel Batman, 2010, that’s now! If you're a still photographer who still thinks that they shoot stills then please watch this demo video.

 

 

This will be a game-changer for photography. In order to capitalize on this exciting trend, photographers will need to change their mindset. No longer should you simply think that you create images. Rather, you’ll need to begin thinking about creating images that move.

 What do you think? Does this medium open new opportunities?

Mike Morawski

Chief Instigation Officer