Archive for the ‘News’ Category
January 13th, 2009
By Bill Merikallio
Times are changing. And these times are certainly challenging. In a recession you need to know (and be able to articulate) exactly what you bring to the proverbial table. While banks and car companies are receiving the lion’s share of press coverage, most industries are feeling the pain. As I mentioned before, record companies are [...]
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Tags: music, strategy, web
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December 4th, 2008
By Kirsti Scott
We received rave reviews for our online holiday card maker at Killer Startups. Take a look at Special Delivery and give us a vote if you like it! Here’s the review: Have you ever wished you had your own web pages so you could leave messages to your friends, make invitations, or just share things [...]
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Tags: flash, flex application, holiday, online application, social media, web design
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November 26th, 2008
By Matt Scott
Don’t have time to mail out holiday cards? It takes only a few minutes to create your own free, green holiday web page with Scott Design’s Special Delivery online application. Scott Design Inc. has developed a free holiday web page maker called Special Delivery that allows users to create custom web pages as an alternative [...]
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Tags: flash, flex application, game, holiday, online application, web design
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November 25th, 2008
By Matt Scott
As Silicon Valley companies think about how to market during these challenging times, there’s something to be learned from the challenges that the American car companies currently face. For example, most recently we have heard that General Motors has bailed out of its contract with Tiger Woods, who has appeared in Buick advertisements for several [...]
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Tags: e-mail, landing page, online advertising, online marketing, social media, web design
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November 19th, 2008
By Kirsti Scott
The Webby Awards named the Web’s ten most influential political moments. From the first political campaign website in 1994 to the YouTube debates in 2007, the list shows how the Internet has evolved to become a means for individuals to participate in the election process and for politicians to connect with and mobilize voters. If [...]
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Tags: web
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November 13th, 2008
By Bill Merikallio
The economy has another corporate sector begging for a bailout: GM and its Detroit brethren are now sidling up to the public trough looking for “a way to enable the car companies to retool for innovation.” As Thomas Friedman of the the New York Times noted, “We have to subsidize Detroit so that it will [...]
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November 7th, 2008
By Matt Scott
Al Gore may have invented the internet, but Obama’s use of the internet and Web 2.0 technologies for his campaign set a standard for all future presidential campaigns. “Web 2.0” is a term to loosely describe technologies that make a user’s experience with a website richer and more interactive. These technologies include video, Flash animation, [...]
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Tags: flash, social media, video, web design, webcast, widget
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November 4th, 2008
By Matt Scott
It’s finally here…Election Day! But it’s really Election Night, since besides the act of physically voting, there’s not a lot going on during the day as we all wait to start tracking the returns on TV and online. It’s always interesting to see how the news networks use design and technology to quickly and accurately [...]
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Tags: web design, web development, widget
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October 31st, 2008
By Kirsti Scott
The McKinsey Quarterly released a report this month encouraging businesses to help customers make “green” choices when making purchases. Many people want to make green choices, but don’t know which ones make the biggest impact on the environment. A recent McKinsey study shows that the top three ways to reduce emissions are to drive fuel-efficient [...]
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Tags: environment, green, sustainable
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October 30th, 2008
By Bill Merikallio
As we close in on the election, and the future of our fragile economy hangs in the balance, I digress. If you can use your logo in tons of different ways, apply it in many different media, and modify it to work with different groups, you have a great logo. And speaking of great logos, [...]
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