Having a difficult time remembering this year's company holiday party? Can't seem to recount the story of the night to your friends? Are your memories a blur of hors d'oeuvres, long speeches, and uh, a few choice libations? Did you wake up on your kitchen floor, covered in coats, with an oven mitt on your left hand and the dog licking your toes? Whether the answer is yes or no doesn't really matter (and we won't ask). What does matter is that Congruent Media is here to help you remember!

Go to CongruentHoliday.com, give us a few words and we'll give you a chance to relive the magic of that night. Not only that, but you'll be able to share it with others who are suffering from the same short-term memory loss as you.

And most importantly, season's greetings from all of us at Congruent Media! We wish you and your loved ones a joyous holiday and the happiest of New Years.

CM

Today is Congruent Media's 6 year anniversary. I wasn't with the team at the beginning, but from the many stories my teammates have shared, the company has come a long way since it's first humble office in the old Broom factory building on Fleet St. 

Since then we moved to an office in Little Italy, then completed the loop by coming back to Brewer's Hill at our current residence in the Natty Boh Tower. We also expanded by opening an office in St. Paul, MN a year and a half ago.

I keep trying to convince Dan and Jeffrey to open an office somewhere in the Caribbean. I of course would take one for the team, and travel down there to open it. Unfortunately, my attempts at convincing Dan and Jeffrey have failed.

All poor jokes aside, we never forget to whom we owe our consistent growth and continued success: our wonderful clients and many friends. We've been priveleged with some remarkable clients, and cannot thank you all enough. We're looking forward to delivering comprehensive online marketing solutions to you for many years to come.

Happy 6 years Congruent!

One of Jeffrey's friends works at a company that set aside some space for team members to work on a puzzle. The people really like and it sounded like a cool idea, so I went out and picked-up a 2,000 piece monster of  Vincent van Gogh's "The Starry Night." It's a beast that quickly outgrew the original spot I thought would be good and overtook half of our kitchen tables.

What a good start to the puzzle though! The edges are almost complete and now the team is starting to fill in the low hanging fruit like the sun. Can't wait until the blue swirls are driving everyone crazy :)

Check out this presentation video from TechCrunch 50 on the Sekai Camera  .

Its an iPhone app (prototype for the moment) that tags “the real world”. For example, if you are at a certain spot (say the corner of Pratt and Charles Streets), you can point your iPhone at a restaurant which will show a tag with a link to the menu. Still don't know what I mean? Its kind of like the glasses Rowdy Roddy Piper wore in “They Live”, but instead of seeing aliens you’re seeing information balloons and tags.

Or you can see tags specifically from your friends eg-“You gotta try the burgers here”. If you point at a subway station sign you can see the subway schedule. It works by finding your location (presumably using the iPhones GPS), then uses image recognition to find and display the tags (which can be visual or audio).

Imagine visiting a historic spot or museum, holding up your iPhone and getting visual and audio information on the area/artwork you’re looking at. Or possibly going to another country (say, Japan) holding up your iPhone to the street corner you’re at and having everything your looking at translated- or at least recommendations (in English) for tourist spots/restaurants/etc. You would think spots could potentially become jumbled with tags which is why they have series of filters so you can just see certain types of tags.

In addition to general information and tags from friends, it can be used by companies for the next generation of Mobile Marketing. Greenbean 2.0 perhaps? The Sekai Camera is still in the prototype stage but could be an extremely cool app once its released. Its just another example of people finding creative ways to use the features available in the iPhone.

Watch and enjoy. The animation is iconic and easy to follow. Very enjoyable.

This is an extremely interesting take on a chapter from a book called "Imagining the 10th Dimension". A thought provoking version of "string theory." For more info, go here:  http://tenthdimension.com/

The trip to Alaska for the Metal Construction Association's Semi-Annual Meeting is going great! Ryan and I started out a couple of days early with some fishing out of Seward, then met the MRA, TMI and MCA teams up in Anchorage for a few days before Stacey joined us and we headed to Denali National Park for the weekend.

Internet access is in the registration office of our cabin community, so I'm not as dialed-in as I'd like, but wanted to share some great photos of our journey so far. I just posted a batch of cool shots to my Flickr account if you're interested. Moose are big animals!

More to come!

On the heels of Josh and Victoria, Stacey and I, and Jeffrey and Sarah are the Morgans - Jason and Isabel, with the wonderful announcement that they had a happy, healthy son yesterday at 4:36 PM!

Alexander Joseph Morgan
10 lbs. - wow!
21.4 in.

We'll make sure to get some pics up as soon as they're available. Until then, wish the growing family the best!

Thinking that there was something "in the water" here at CM World HQ, we've gone to bottled water shipped from really, really far away in hopes to stem the baby-having tide :)

This was my first time at CFUnited and frankly my first time attending a conference of any sort. It was a new experience to me and was definitely fun and informative. Readers of The Sports Guy may be familiar with his “ramblings” and “running diary” columns. Those are my blueprints for this post as there are a lot of small things I wanted to touch on. Some are technology related, some are just observations.

Here for your enjoyment is my Bill Simmons-esque ramblings on CFUnited…

Thursday:

Wow, Baltimore is so quiet & peaceful at 5:30 am.

Haven’t had a McGriddle in years… I think the McGriddle technology is the same as that which created the little toy dinosaurs that expand in water. The breakfast sandwich is about the size of a hockey puck but somehow magically expands into a cinder block when it hits your stomach. My normal confident strut has become a slow waddle…
  

… birds of a feather…

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Team CM is super happy to announce that Jeffrey and Sarah had a little baby boy yesterday evening in Minneapolis!

Otto [TBD] Rudolf - what a cool name!
8 lbs. 3 oz.
21 in.

Everyone is healthy, happy and resting at the hospital!

That's it for now. I'm sure there will be some online galleries available soon.

Thanks, Dan