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January 2010

DesignDevelopment

The White House Chats Digitally

The White House has always used communication platforms to interact with the populace, from FDR’s “Fireside Chats” over the radio to Presidential addresses carried on every network and cable provider simultaneously. So it’s no surprise that the current administration is making full use of Internet interactivity, the same way Obama utilized Twitter when campaigning. The White House is currently broadbanding a series of online video chats on Whitehouse.gov this week, with the idea of taking stock of the Obama Administration's…
January 12, 2010
DevelopmentMarketing

FLO and Morphie Team Up!

The latest in local digital happenings has Qualcomm's unqiue  FLO TV service  teaming up with software and app designer  mophie to bring a live TV service to the iPhone and iPod touch platforms. Utilizing FLO TV's recently acquired spectrum, the application and antennae skin will receive TV signals independent of the carrier's networks, eliminating the prce of the network fee now passed on to consumers. FLO also announced a hefty line up of sports programming for 2010- --  90 NBA…
January 8, 2010
DesignDevelopmentMarketing

Box Me Up a Boxee, Yo

D-Link has officially unveiled the Boxee Box and should be on the market in the first half of this year with an expected retail price of around $200 (of course, by the end of the year, one could probably snag a BB for $75).  It is one of the most hotly anticipated new media gadgets to come around in a while.  The company’s website describes the product as so: Ever wish you could get all the great free entertainment from…
January 7, 2010
Marketing

Careercast ranks 200 jobs from Best to Worst for 2010 : Web Developer #15

How does Jobs Rated determine which professions rank better than others? Data on each job is broken down into five key categories: Physical Demands, Work Environment, Income, Stress and Hiring Outlook. Jobs receive a score in each individual category, and when these are added together, the career with the best overall score is ranked 1st, while the one with the worst overall score is ranked 200th. So "Web Developer" got #15. I didn't see "Web Designer" or "Project Manager" on…
January 6, 2010
DevelopmentMarketing

Hello WordPress 2.9.1, Bye Bye Headspace2, Hello All in One SEO Pack

In the process of posting that last post, I upgraded to Wordpress 2.9.1. 2.9.1 is said to fix a few minor issues like fixing a Core editor bug in Safari, and improving some of the nice image editing functionality that came with 2.9 itself. But what I didn't count on was it interacting with the SEO plugin Headspace2 that we had installed, to totally break javascript in the Wordpress backend... (more…)
January 5, 2010