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in Business, Featured, Friends, News on July 2nd, 2010
In a nutshell Google Me is a social network that doesn’t have the restrictions that come with G-Mail like Google Buzz did.
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in Code, Featured, Findings on April 8th, 2010
I swear on every new project I start, I’m always recreating the same old twitter sidebar widget. NEVER AGAIN! I finally sat down and made an extremely generic widget that with some css tweaking, should be able to fit into every project.
A few minor features it includes:
- Linkifying twitter text — adds links to #hash tags, @replys and standard links.
- TimeAgo function — The twitter API sends the time the tweet was created using a funky time format. This function returns it in a more pretty form such as “3 hours and 26 minutes ago.”
- Loading icon until tweets are received from the…
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charles
in Awards, Business, Featured, Marketing, News, Reviews on April 23rd, 2009
Though the official announcement isn’t due out for a few days, we’ve learned that we took home two big awards this year at the Horizon Interactive 2009 competition. markshale.com won Gold in the eCommerce / Sales category and may win more honors. And Hyatt’s hotelvictorsouthbeach.com won the Bronze in the Travel Industry category. Thank you to our talented and brilliant team here at BD. And thanks to our innovative and ambitious clients who inspire us to do our very best work for them.
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steve
in Featured, browsers on March 19th, 2009
IE8 is here! Some of you may be ignoring that exclamation mark thinking, “Great, now I have 3 IE’s to cross browser test”. Or do you? Since IE8 officially launched at 9am Pacific time this morning I spent the next 3 hours upgrading Vista with the 90 or so upgrades it asked me to do before I could finally install IE8. I then proceeded to ask myself that same question every web developer out there is thinking, “How big of a pain in the ass is this IE going to be”. So I did a few test and benchmarks just…
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steve
in Featured, Inspiration, Reviews on March 2nd, 2009
There’s no mistaking it, we love flash around here. However, it’s of my opinion that flash is going out. When you look back at why Flash was created and why it exists today its because designers and developers pushed the boundaries of HTML/CSS/Javascript too far and needed something more. Those standard web tools can’t do enough and thus we throw it all out the window and use flash instead. Well with Safari 4, and the upcoming Firefox 3.1, we’re going to see the beginning of the end for Flash. Why is this? One word, “Canvas”.
The canvas tag is most simply…
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ted
in Featured, Marketing on January 18th, 2009
Many of the marketing rules and lessons we use for the internet are often derived from offline practices. This is the case with targeting specific niches by location, where marketers seek to reach their audience more efficiently and with more relevance. Until not too recently, targeting users by geography was an almost impossible chore. But with the evolution of the search engines and their ability* to differentiate between local, regional, national and global content the web agencies like Billups Design are able to offer Geo Targeting.
*The factors that the search engines use to establish Geo Targeting are the geographical intent of…
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