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The Cambridge School

Happy to announce the launch of another site : The Cambridge School is alive. Using Wordpress as a Content Management System, the admin side allows the school's staff to easily update the site, without having to worry about all the nitty-gritty. Images on the homepage and elsewhere are pulled in via jQuery from XML docs, fading in and out. Typeface.js renders text in the sidebars which is also dynamically controlled from the backend... (more…)
January 25, 2010
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Online Revenue: Monetization in Mafia Wars

The Chatter Have you been haring this lately around the office and coffee houses, “Mafia Wars is addicting”?  Or: “I’ve been spending a lot of money on Mafia Wars.” The online game is a good example of digital economy platforms, where money operates in the virtual world of the game and in the real world with revenue profit and charitable efforts. You can buy points in Mafia Wars, and gain more weapons, power, and position.  Depends on how much you…
January 20, 2010
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Social Media Uses During Natural Disasters

Our hearts and prayers go out to all those in Haiti, and the Haitian citizens in America watching the events unfold from the TV and news. What has come out of this natural disaster is a light on how relevant and important social media technology has become, both personally and globally.  While the traditional communications infrastructures in Haiti are down, news has been coming out via mobile devices with photos and images, and Skype has been the most-used method of…
January 13, 2010
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14 Days of jQuery : Celebrating Goodness

jQuery is a wonder-filled javascript library that is seemingly everywhere these days: Google, Dell, BofA, MLB, Digg, NBC, CBS, Netflix, Technorati, Mozilla.org, Wordpress, Drupal, and most every site we've worked on for a few years now. In celebration of the upcoming release of jQuery v1.4, the developers are showcasing 14 Days of jQuery over at jquery14.com. The site promises "code releases, project-related updates, and jQuery UI goodness", plus "videos over the 14 days with talks and tutorials relating the jQuery…
January 12, 2010
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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