In the olden days, selling goods from a store required physical access.  People rode their horse, tied it up, etc.  As a vendor, you knew this person could only come as far as a horse could take them.  If you sold ice cream, that's about all you needed to know.  If there was a bridge that was in disrepair and in danger of collapsing a mile from your shop, you'd advise your customers to avoid the bridge and take the 3-mile detour.

Are you an advertising publisher in the display media space?  Do you host and deliver media or other creatives?  For those of you that do, here are the results of our ad:tech survey.

Several members of the Highwinds team attended this year's Game Developer's Conference in San Francisco. We attended numerous sessions, saw several awesome speakers and shook thousands of hands. After getting back to our HQ in Winter Park we compared notes and put together the more memorable points into a Slideshare for you.   Below are the "10 Things We Learned at GDC San Francisco".  If you were at GDC as well, please feel free to add to our list by commenting below.  

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Only days away, ad:tech San Francisco is the largest digital marketing event of the year. For those of you that have been to other ad:tech events across the globe, you know it's an awesome place to learn, network and party.  

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It was pretty easy to get your mind blown at the SXSW Interactive trade show this year where new technologies, developers and big-time visionaries from across the globe descended to Austin to show us the very latest happenings in high-tech awesomeness.

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On Wednesday night Sony held an event to unveil details of the upcoming PlayStation 4 console.  While it was unusually short on specifics for a launch event (to the point that they didn't actually show any hardware) there were some interesting implications and confirmation of a few theories I've had about the next generation of consoles and their competition with PC platforms for gaming.

I’ll be making the trek to Hamburg for Casual Connect Europe next week with three other Highwinds folks.  But before we start donning lederhosen and ordering hefeweizens, I’d like to share our team’s list of five “must do’s” for this educational, engaging and entertaining gaming show.