You know the future is mobile, but where do you start? How are apps are built, what resources should you use, and what do you look for in a great app? On Thursday night TWG Partner Chris Eben headed out to the Jumpwire Media Speaker Series: Thinking Mobile to give a short presentation to a [...]
Winter in Canada guarantees one thing. The dark. It’s dark when you wake up in the morning, and it’s dark when you head home from work in the evening. Christmas cheer may distract and keep you chipper through December, but come mid-January, we’re all hunkering down and preserving our energy for the long haul. It’s [...]
Last week, as I left the studio, in the early dark of a December night, I was looking around the studio with a poignant mix of astonishment and gratitude .. Out loud, I asked myself ’Well.. how did I get here?’ It’s been an incredible decade for TWG. We’ve seen a couple macroeconomic cycles of [...]
After 9 years of building great web applications, web sites, and system integrations for clients of every stripe, The Working Group (TWG) is expanding our service offering to include mobile application development. Why are we getting into mobile? Well, the truth is we’ve been doing it for a while. We launched our first mobile app [...]
There’s a big reason TWG has been attending LeanCoffeeTO for 1 year… It’s not only for the Lean… It’s certainly not for the Coffee… It’s all about the TO! photo credit: Chris Mudiappahpillai For TWG, LeanCoffee has been about the trusted relationships we’ve uncovered. I’m talking about the intelligent, driven, passionate, GOOD PEOPLE we get [...]
1. Microsoft can’t possibly screw it up more than Ebay did. Seriously, Ebay did nothing with Skype in 4years… except sell it for almost exactly what they bought it for in 2005. 2. If they royally mess it up, then someone other than my mother might actually FaceTime me. (Apple get on this would ya) [...]
Just watch a great 10 minute video, made by a Brazillian research company called Box1824, that talks about youth culture, it’s origin, evolution, a bit about where it is today and where it’s headed in the future.
Well, PostageApp is. We were very happy to wake up this morning to see that PostageApp has spread to Japan! The folks over at 100shiki.com posted a little introduction and overview (here it is in English) of PostageApp and helped to introduce us to our first overseas audience. Thanks guys! For any of you who [...]
TWG would like to formally welcome you to 2010 and talk a little bit about something we’ve decided to kick off the new year with: Scrum! Scrum is an agile framework that allows teams to become self organizing and focus on delivering high business value. In 2010, TWG is committed to delivering working, high business [...]
I recently finished Chip Kidd’s The Learners, a beautiful novel set in a 1960′s ad agency. Kidd – the Brad Pitt of book designers – provides tons of graphic design gems in this book, inspiring nuggets like: Kiddies, what makes good design is good clients. It’s as simple as that. Look at CBS–the eye. Genuis. [...]