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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
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
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Censoring the Yelp?

Yelp.com is being dragged into Los Angeles federal court in a class-action lawsuit for unfair business practices, initiated by a Long Beach-based veterinary hospital. The plaintiff, Cats and Dogs Hospital, requested Yelp to remove a negative review from its site, and says Yelp not only refused to remove it, but demanded payments of $300 a month to obscure or remove the bad review.  The negative reviews allegedly stateL "Dr. Perrault is the rudest vet I've ever been to" and "my…
February 25, 2010
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Legal Woes for Google in Europe

In the afterglow of Google’s legal and social moral issues with China came a surprise for many: on February 23, an Italian court convicted three Google executives -- Chief Legal Officer David Drummond, Global Privacy Counsel Peter Fleischer and former CFO George Reyes -- of privacy violations for not acting quickly enough to remove a video of teen youth bullying an autistic boy. (more…)
February 23, 2010