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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
DesignDevelopmentMarketing

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
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
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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
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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