Author: Josh Lambert
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Choose Healthy Challenge Mobile App
The Choose Healthy Challenge was a mobile-app based game designed to encourage healthy living habits – putting gamification theory to work – in a way that makes people happier and healthier. The concept behind this app was simple: encourage the user to take an action that benefits their physical health, nutritional health, and emotional health,…
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Planet Fundraiser Mobile App
Planet Fundraiser was a mobile app, developed right here in Alabama, designed to make supporting local charities as easy as snapping a photo. Local businesses were the rock star for this app and made the giving effort possible. Customers shop like they normally do, take a picture of their receipt, and scan it into the…
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Lead Generation With AI, Powered By Zapier
Today I attended a webinar hosted by Jane Zhang from Zapier’s product marketing team. The focus was on Zapier’s new AI agent offering, with the webinar providing some real concrete examples of how AI agents can help a business with their lead generation efforts. There’s a lot of buzz, hyperbole, and misinformation in this space…
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ResultWorx TMS Solution
A Transportation Management System (TMS) is a vital component of modern freight logistics. Without this essential software, businesses lack critical visibility into the real-time location of their drivers and cargo. I can’t imagine operating in the freight and logistics industry without it! In 2011, I collaborated with the team at ResultWorx, a division of BIS…
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React Mobile Dispatch Center
Keeping hotel employees safe has been a priority in the industry for years now. Starting as far back as at least 2016, regional authorities including the City of Seattle began passing laws requiring panic buttons to be furnished to hotel workers. These buttons provided employees a discrete and fast way to notify security and emergency…
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Decentralizing the Internet: The Case for Stronger IXPs in Alabama
The “Cloud”, for all the marketing lingo and buzzwords flying around about it, is actually quite simple. At it’s core, the Cloud is simply computers connected across diverse areas and networks. That’s it. There’s no incantations or magic spells holding our digital age together – though on second thought, the engineers that design and keep…
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Fellowship With The Titans
A gentle fog hung over Birmingham, Alabama this morning – visible as far as the eye could see from the 20th floor of the immaculate John Hand building. Industry and commerce humming about below the club floor powered by technology our ancestors couldn’t fathom in 1912 when this building joined Birmingham’s emerging skyline. The innovations…
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Join the REVOLUTION, Self-host Your Content!
I grew up on a more open internet. It wasn’t perfect, but generally speaking, gatekeepers were significantly less common than they are today. On the 2025 version of the internet – algorithms/AI and corporate hucksters get to be the primary gatekeepers of information. If a post isn’t shared on Facebook, X, or Reddit – likely…
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Gate Agent Mobile App
High school football games are a classic American experience bringing communities together to cheer on their local athletes. Who doesn’t love watching these kids develop both their athletic talent and good sportsmanship at the same time? TouchdownTix, an Alabama company, serves schools in this space through development of a custom ticket sales platform. Their goal…
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Carbon Calculator for CareAR
CareAR, a division of Xerox, is an augmented reality software company with the motto to “Make Expertise Accessible”. They do this through their proprietary mobile application which connects field technicians to experts at their home office. Both the technician and remote expert are able to interact together in real-time over live-stream video from the work…