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We recently collaborated with our Hewlett-Packard clients, Scott Berg, Director of Digital Strategy, and Michael Mendenhall, Chief Marketing Officer, to create the video below. It focuses on the trends that are influencing digital media and services. Mendenhall included it in his presentation this week at Cannes.

The challenge in creating this video was to step back and take a macro view—how broad trends in demography, economics and technology are shaping the digital landscape.

The statistics included are eye-opening, and we found ourselves at multiple points in the discovery process taking moments to reflect—on the scale of these figures, the surprise factors and the implications.

A big Thank You to our clients at HP for inviting us to participate in this initiative.

With just a few choice words this past weekend, my three year old nephew broke my heart….and my tech ego.

Let me set the stage for you. My sister and nephew picked me up at the airport (which is easy to do when it’s one hanger on the far south west edge of town) and just before I arrived, they were deep in conversation around the meaning of the word ‘embarrassing’ or more accurately, the proper use of said word.

I should insert a disclaimer here– my nephew is wicked smart and I don’t just say that because we’re related.

It’s that time of the year, where the gaming industry puts its best foot forward and shows off the newest gear, the latest innovations, and, of course, the best games you’ll be playing over the next 365 days. The Electronic Entertainment Expo came roaring back to life in Los Angeles this past month and Denuo’s gaming expertise was there to take it all in.

E3 is one of the only events where attendees and those sitting at home can have equally valid, but disparate opinions. It’s the strange outcome of a videogame industry where interaction is essential to any experience and a videogame community that demands a flood of news, impressions, and detail to replace the interaction they’re missing out on. With that in mind, I present a counter top 5 (pun!) to Eric’s top 5 of E3. This not only reflects my distinct tastes from Mr. Bee (and they are pretty darn distinct) but also the fact that I was two times zones away from any sort of playable e3 games.

Jimmy Fallon has been making some tech-friendly gestures lately at his new position on the Late Show. Recently he featured Microsoft’s Project Natal only a couple days after it was unveiled at e3 (with John Krasinski in tow in less). The clip above is certainly entertaining in its own right (especially Jimmy channeling a 5 year old right before opening his birthday gifts) and the tech seems to work well – but it’s the larger implications of this appearance that have me the most excited.