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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
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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
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Ashworth Golf Company

I realized today that we neglected to document (blog-ument?) the launch of another site a week or two ago : the redesign of the Ashworth Golf Company. Using WordPress at its Content Management System potential, the site showcases the Ashworth legacy, latest Apparel, Golfers, and then some. (more…)
March 1, 2010
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Privacy and Monetization Trends in Social Networking

Tired of getting all those updates on Facebook about people’s Mafia Wars status or what kind of new digital farmland they’re acquired at Farmville? Facebook hears ya, baby. After growing privacy concerns and complaints, the social networking site has finally extended privacy controls to enable members to assign different levels of access to individual applications. Users now have the option to limit distribution of nearly everything they share, including cause posts, photos, greeting cards and videos. (more…)
February 22, 2010
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Updating the Code Aurora Forum

Mobile World Congress was this past week, and as part of our contribution to that, and to the world at large, we at Ninthlink had the privilege of freshening up the look of the Code Aurora Forum, "the go-to-source for the mobile open source community." The old site (picture after the jump) had all the info, including GIT repositories and WIKIs full of knowledge for the latest in the open source world, from Google's Android and Chromium OS to Qualcomm's…
February 19, 2010