Oh it has been a productive Friday. If you think you might being seeing double, perhaps you just haven’t realized that while you think you are looking at Our Work page, you were actually looking at Ninthlink’s Portfolio in Facebook all along. Shazaam.
As of a little less than an hour ago, the Code Aurora Forum has a rockin Facebook page. Most of what we saw when checking out examples on the Custom Facebook Page Gallery (thanks, Matt) was either static images with image maps, or Flash apps. We wanted to do something more css/ajax-y… READ MORE
Have a short film you’ve been wanting to show the digital world? Bablegunm’s 3rd annual Online Film Festival will feature simultaneous online and mobile viewing for the first time this year and is accepting submissions through March 28 for short films in 4 categories: Animation, Narrative, Non-narrative and Documentary.
Indie directors Richard Linklater and Sally Potter are among this year’s Jurors.
It’s all about the content! And with your nifty mobile device, you can watch these films anywhere, anytime, anyplace.
These things excite us over here at Ninthlink!
Over at The Adaptive Path — a great website we highly recommend — we found a post by Leah Buley that we’d like to share – it concerns the notion of “sketching” as a methodology of increasing creativity in the work environment. Leah writes:
Over the past few years, we’ve seen sketching grow from being the hot “new” method to just another skill we use to get the work done. Which means that sketching, and more importantly learning to sketch, is a rite that a lot of us now share.
The idea is similar to doodling to get the imaginative juices flowing, or even writing maniacally on a chalk board during a brain storming session.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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