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November 2009

DevelopmentMarketing

How Much Daily Time Are People Spending Online?

Analysts and researchers are constantly studying how and why we all spend our time online, and how many hours of days—our lives, really—are spent surfing the net, viewing and reading content, buying, and interacting. It’s a tremendous amount of needed information when you think about it—either socially, commercially, ethnographically, and politically, such studies are used and are useful to various organizations, brands, and entities, and where there is a need, there will be those enterprising companies that will provide for…
November 30, 2009
DesignTips

The Grid and How We Work It

The creative process has its own meaning and function for everyone. There is a general structure we like to adhere to, but almost every design problem we face presents a new issue to work against. It's exciting to tackle these brain teasers and see the possibilities that come forth after getting lost in the problem for a while. As some of this tinkering is unavoidable, the creative process can't be avoided for too long or nothing will ever get done.…
November 25, 2009
DesignDevelopmentMarketing

Asteroids! A Blast from the Past!

Feeling nostalic and analogue, the days a large arcade games, Texas Instruments and 3x5 floppy disks with 20 kb? Sure, we can all use some fun and games this season, which is why Infogrames Entertainment’s old school v-game label Atari -- remember Atari, kids? -- is relaunching Atari.com as a free arcade portal. That's right -- log on and play, once again,  “Asteroids,” “Battlezone,” “Lunar Lander” or “Yars Revenge” to your heart’s content while the company markets geek-tested merchandise and more…
November 25, 2009
DesignDevelopment

What a difference a BG makes

ISM: a community project is a non-profit "inspiring innovative interaction and conversation both online and offline," which is why Ninthlink is happy to have been working with them for a few years now. Ever since Craig's initial designs manifested themselves, there was the idea floating around of how rad it would be to get artists to contribute backgrounds for the ISMcommunity.org site. Now that we finally had a few minutes to spare leading up to this holiday weekend, I was…
November 25, 2009
DevelopmentMarketing

New 4U @YouTube

There’s some cool changes over at YouTube, folks, and it makes the world of online video even more accessible to the masses.  Accessibility is everything! An automatic captioning/subtitling feature, once only available to a few educational partners, will soon be available to YouTube's general audience. Choose "transcribe audio" from the captioning menu of any video and you'll be able to use Google's speech recognition software to place captions or subtitles at the bottom of the screen so that viewers who…
November 20, 2009