In 2008, the Ninthlink team installed a bike rack in the offices to encourage our employees—and other businesses in town—to think green, keep the car at home, and bike to work, saving gas money and eliminating a little less fuel pollutants in the air.

Google seems to be catching on to the trend, and we dig it!

They just unveiled the beta version of their  Bicycle mapping option on Google Maps, which assists in identifying the best urban bike routes across 150 U.S. cites (they also have this for car and public transit.)

This app, timed for release during the National Bike Summit in Washington this week, folds in trail data from the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy combined with other publicly available bike route data.

What you do: type in where you’re starting from and where you’re going to and Google Maps will identify the easiest – that is, least hilly/dangerous — route.

Yes, Google is working on a GPS-powered mobile version.

Well done, Aten Design Group of Denver, CO. Well done. As mentioned by CNN, the group is holding a funeral service for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6 web browser, tonight. The “death” is a result of Google, specifically its Google Docs and Google Sites, dropping support for IE6 on March 1st. YouTube also will stop catering to it on the 13th.

“Internet Explorer Six, resident of the interwebs for over 8 years, died the morning of March 1, 2010 in Mountain View, California, as a result of a workplace injury sustained at the headquarters of Google, Inc.”

Rhythm NewMedia is a fairly new mobile video ad network that has introducing a “developers kit”  to allow media partners monetize their own iPhone apps by adding integrated ad units into their video.

The  site’s  “Application Launch” ad unit provides brand messaging via a full screen video ad presented to the user during those few seconds while a new app loads.

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I realized today that we neglected to document (blog-ument?) the launch of another site a week or two ago : the redesign of the Ashworth Golf Company. Using WordPress at its Content Management System potential, the site showcases the Ashworth legacy, latest Apparel, Golfers, and then some. READ MORE

Yelp.com is being dragged into Los Angeles federal court in a class-action lawsuit for unfair business practices, initiated by a Long Beach-based veterinary hospital.

The plaintiff, Cats and Dogs Hospital, requested Yelp to remove a negative review from its site, and says Yelp not only refused to remove it, but demanded payments of $300 a month to obscure or remove the bad review.  The negative reviews allegedly stateL “Dr. Perrault is the rudest vet I’ve ever been to” and “my poor dog was terrified of him.”

See the suit, filed by San Diego’s Weston Group, here.

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In the afterglow of Google’s legal and social moral issues with China came a surprise for many: on February 23, an Italian court convicted three Google executives — Chief Legal Officer David Drummond, Global Privacy Counsel Peter Fleischer and former CFO George Reyes — of privacy violations for not acting quickly enough to remove a video of teen youth bullying an autistic boy.

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Tired of getting all those updates on Facebook about people’s Mafia Wars status or what kind of new digital farmland they’re acquired at Farmville?

Facebook hears ya, baby.

After growing privacy concerns and complaints, the social networking site has finally extended privacy controls to enable members to assign different levels of access to individual applications. Users now have the option to limit distribution of nearly everything they share, including cause posts, photos, greeting cards and videos.

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While doing a little work on The Modlins’ blog, I stumbled across a video tutorial on How to Add Your Blog Feed to Your Facebook Profile that is great advice for, well, anyone who blogs and facebooks (is that a verb yet?). With just a few clicks and one copy-paste, Facebook will give you a new Note whenever you publish a blog post. Learn how after the jump (or watch the video tutorial…) READ MORE

Mobile World Congress was this past week, and as part of our contribution to that, and to the world at large, we at Ninthlink had the privilege of freshening up the look of the Code Aurora Forum, “the go-to-source for the mobile open source community.” The old site (picture after the jump) had all the info, including GIT repositories and WIKIs full of knowledge for the latest in the open source world, from Google’s Android and Chromium OS to Qualcomm’s Gobi and SnapDragon technologies. We helped to give it a face lift, and make it so everyone, and not just the most dedicated techies, can get excited about our open source future. READ MORE

I use firefox as my main web browser. It is full of great add-ons to speed up my life and even help me with design and development tips. I wanted to share this site simply because I love the artistic approach that firefox and Mozilla roll with. Have a look for yourself and learn something new about firefox.