Intuitive Stories Telling Your Company or Product Story. Digitally. Intuitive Stories Telling Your Company or Product Story. Digitally. Home Strategic Consulting Speaking Teaching Writing About Me Contact Me Intuitive Stories Founder Dave Taylor has been involved with the online world since 1980 and is recognized globally as an expert on both technical and business issues. He has been published over a thousand times, launched four Internet-related startup companies, has written twenty business and technical books and holds both an MBA and MS Ed. He’s a columnist for the Boulder Daily Camera and Linux Journal and frequently appears in other publications both online and in print. Based in beautiful Boulder, Colorado, Dave is an award-winning speaker, sought after conference and workshop participant and frequent guest on radio and podcast programs, as well as active member of his community and busy single father to three. Can You Trust Voice and Facial Recognition Systems? Re-read George Orwell’s “1984” and you’ll find that while he might have missed on the date things would appear, he was remarkably spot-on with the technologies he predicted. A TV that watched you and analyzed your activities and conversations? Yup, got that. Listening devices in other rooms? Got that. And now with the iPhone X […] Read More Building a Web Site: SaveToMp3 There are quite a few Web sites that offer users the ability to download a YouTube video or extract and download just the audio portion as an MP3, but the YouTube to Mp3 service SaveToMp3.com stands out as not having tons of offensive ads or any risk of giving you malware. Intrigued, I reached out […] Read More Consult with Me Via the Innovative Live Online Service Zeqr I’ve been an entrepreneur since I was old enough to hustle. In fact, it’s hard to say exactly which was my first business, but either going door to door waxing cars for $20 or pairing up with my pal Mitchell and offering a private plane cleaning service at Van Nuys Airport in Los Angeles are […] Read More The Importance of Consistent Packaging A small startup called Pop Box has been starting to get their new product in retail channels and it’s pretty interesting: microwave popcorn in a pop-up box. Better yet, it even tastes good and the convenience benefits of having popcorn in a ready-to-eat dispenser should be immediately obvious, particularly if you’ve ever had to eat […] Read More Insider Tip: Reaching Out to Get Press Coverage Let’s face it. We all want more eyeballs on our site. That’s the coin of the blogging realm, and it opens up just about every possibility on your site. More affiliate sales. More sponsored post opportunities. More [insert your ad platform] views. One way to boost your site’s visibility is to gain free exposure from […] Read More Cellphone Charger With Those Chicken Wings? I’m fascinated by a campaign that fast food conglomerate KFC is running in India where they actually have a cellphone charging battery built directly into the food box if you order a specific menu item. Here’s a photo: It’s quite brilliant for the KFC target customer because it’s a younger demographic that eats fast food and they’re the […] Read More Interview with Author G. David Thayer As an author of many business and tech books — check out my author page at Amazon.com — I’m always interested in hearing about the creative process with other authors. Here’s how G. David Thayer has managed his writing projects, including his latest historical title about the S.S. Vestris… Q: Tell me about the latest book […] Read More Verizon Logo Change and Store Design Update There are few things guaranteed to generate more mixed messages from your customer base than a logo update, but smart companies proceed regardless and just accept that complaints and criticism is just part of the journey of updating or changing a company’s appearance. The latest company to experience the slings and arrows of this outrageous […] Read More The Best and Worst Super Bowl 50 Commercials Super Bowl 50 was a good game of football between the Denver Broncos and the Carolina Panthers, but, to be frank about it, not a great game. There were some good plays, but the game revolved around errors and mistakes much more than it featured great plays and exciting completions. Heck, I don’t think there […] Read More Interview with Amazon Echo Developer Shanthan Kesharaju When Shanthan posted in the Facebook Amazon Echo group that he’d written a game for the Echo because of his son’s love for the device, I was interested to learn more. The result is this interview. Enjoy! How did you become an Echo developer? Is there a Web site where you had to sign up […] Read More Hoverboards, The Great Fail of the Consumer Protection Agency? Sometimes when a consumer product becomes popular there are unexpected consequences to its success, use cases that customers find that weren’t part of the planning or testing phase of the manufacturer. Rarely, though, does an entire category of products end up a spectacular fail, but that’s just what’s happened in the last 45 days with hoverboards, […] Read More Shaun Murphy Talks About Online Shopping Security Shaun Murphy is an expert on communication security and has focused on online credit card fraud and transaction safety for the holidays. He was kind enough to answer a few questions about how to shop online – and stay safe – during the upcoming shopping frenzy, and his answers are most interesting… Q: Most people […] Read More The State of Application Security & Piracy When Arxan Technologies shared its research findings on the state of application security and how piracy is adversely affecting vendor sales and success, my interest was piqued and I asked if I could interview someone on the team about the findings. Here’s my interview with Chief Marketing Officer Patrick Kehoe about piracy, mobile platforms, and related. Read […] Read More 13 Million iPhone 6s Sales in a Weekend Apple announced that it sold a staggering 13 million iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus on launch weekend, a three day period from Friday morning until Sunday night, September 25, 26 and 27. I know, I popped by the Boulder Apple Store on the morning of the 25th and saw the faithful lined up, waiting […] Read More A Virus that Spies on your Poker Hand I’m fascinated by the ingenuity behind the latest virus to show up on the Internet, malware that targets people who play online poker through Pokerstars and Full Tilt Poker. It lurks in the background and when those users are actually playing it spies on their hand and reports what they’re holding to a central server, […] Read More 123›» Recent Posts Can You Trust Voice and Facial Recognition Systems? 1 month ago / 0 Building a Web Site: SaveToMp3 8 months ago / 0 Consult with Me Via the Innovative Live Online Service Zeqr 10 months ago / 1 The Importance of Consistent Packaging 1 year ago / 1 Insider Tip: Reaching Out to Get Press Coverage 1 year ago / 2 Cellphone Charger With Those Chicken Wings? 1 year ago / 0 Interview with Author G. 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