31 May Flash vs. No Flash
Why is there any discussion on whether or not to use Flash if it can be used to display video, create animations and provide REALLY COOL interactivity on websites? The word of the day IS <pause for dramatic effect>...
31 May Looking for a job? We might be looking for you…
We have a position open for a full time Front End Web Developer. If you are interested, we'd love to hear from you!...
26 May Something Inspiring before Memorial Day weekend…
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16 May The Downside of Personalization Algorithms
The internet. We love it. It's why we are here, doing what we do. But have you noticed subtle ways in which what we see on the internet has been changing?From my perspective, it's been most easily apparent on Facebook. There was a point when...
09 May Machine Tags for Flickr
I learned today that Flickr developed something called "Machine Tags". The same way we tag our blog posts with keywords we think will help us HUMANS search through our blog archives in the long run, we can use similar tags that will help MACHINES track and...
05 May Placeholder images…who woulda thunk?
My jaw simple dropped when I ran into this post on tutsplus.com: http://net.tutsplus.com/articles/web-roundups/the-top-8-placeholders-for-web-designers/ How would you feel if you could make any image place holder you want without ever touching an image file? What if the image size is solely based on image name or URL path....
29 Apr Get Satisfaction
Here's a neat customer service tool called GetSatisfaction. http://getsatisfaction.com Think of this as a virtual suggestion box, or a troubleshooting report collector. I have found a few sites using their services, and it's just a neat and clean way of interacting with your userbase when they're experiencing...
29 Apr Cinemagraphs: Moving Images
I ran into something amazing the other day. What if you could take a still image, and animate it in such away that you think you're watching a piece of film? Enter cinemegraphs...
26 Apr Reconsidering Email Design
Chad White at MediaPost has written an excellent article that speaks to the broad range of devices being used to view email, and thus, the technical issues that need to be addressed when coding emails. As we have been discussing internally, many of these technical needs...
26 Apr Move over Facebook “Like”: Introducing Facebook “Send”
Facebook developers have created a "Send" function that they see working hand-in-hand with the Facebook "Like" function. This button provides the ability for visitors to privately share a page with certain individuals in their Facebook network as demonstrated in their post: Read the Facebook blog post...