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March 2010

DevelopmentMarketing

Have Short Film?

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.…
March 12, 2010
CultureDesignTips

Sketching in the Office — A New Creative Trend?

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,…
March 11, 2010
DesignDevelopmentMarketing

The Google Biking Trend

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…
March 11, 2010
Marketing

RIP IE6 : Funeral Tonight @ 7pm mst / 6pm pst

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…
March 4, 2010
DesignDevelopmentMarketing

Mobile Trends: Integrated Ads

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. (more…)
March 2, 2010