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August 2008

Development

Fonts Fonts Fonts

Russell and Travis were working on a client's monthly email newsletter, and asked me if I had a referrence sheet for web-safe fonts. First, a brief rundown of why that came up at all. If you already know of the joys of Gmail vs Outlook 2k8 (or is it 7?), feel free to skip to the next paragraph. Otherwise, allow me to set the stage. See, a few years ago, a designer could design any sort of fancy fancy email…
August 12, 2008
Marketing

Search Engine Strategies 2008 : San Jose Conference & Expo

Only August 18th, the Search Engine Strategies Conference & Expo returns to San Jose, California. Featured speakers include Kevin Ryan, VP / Global Content Director for SearchEngineStrategies.com & SearchEngineWatch.com, author Lee Siegel, with his recently published book Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob, Satya Nadella, Senior VP from Microsoft itself, Dan Heath, co-author of NYT's bestselling book Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die, Matt Cutts, Software Engineer from Google, and…
August 12, 2008
Marketing

Benefit Show With The Modlins, This Saturday!

This Saturday, August 16th, Ninthlink favs The Modlins reunite with their friends The Roman Spring, plus special guests Hello Sunshine, to rock the Radio Room, formerly known as the Zombie Lounge, on El Cajon Blvd. The show is to help raise money for friends participating in Team In Training, getting ready for a marathon up in San Francisco later this year. The Team In Training program and the marathon itself will raise money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, and…
August 11, 2008
Marketing

Keep Virgin From Destroying The Internet!

The new CEO of Virgin Media, Neil Berkett, has openly stated in an interview that they think net neutrality is “a load of bollocks” and claimed they're already doing deals to deliver some people’s content faster than others. They would then put websites and services that don't pay Virgin in the "slow lane", meaning those sites would load slowly and cause most users to give up using them, feeling forced to use whatever Virgin wants to push through their network.…
August 11, 2008
Development

For The Good Of The Web Developer

I'll be honest, most of the posting I've done so far has been for my own good (cough cough RayBans). But this, this is different. Twice in the past two working days, coworkers have asked me a question, different questions both times, but the answer has been the same. I think. Maybe the first question was more that we were trying to solve something, but that one still had an answer, the same answer as the question today, and the…
August 11, 2008