My laptop died last night. It was an undignified death, with the loud internal fan wheezing and gasping for air as I attempting to type out a simple email. The situation was this: mid-word, my computer failed to complete what I was inputting into its innards and like usual, I waited for the silver brick to just catch up to where I left off. It’s not that I’m a fast typist as much as my Dell Inspiron 6000 has a chronic case of Alzheimer’s. Last night it forgot to work; it forgot that it had a hard drive.
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Over the past few months we’ve had the opportunity to work on another web app with the Schakra GoGoStat team, GoGoStat Parental Guidance. This is a Facebook application which allows parents to monitor the social activity of their children on Facebook - so for example, parents are notified if their kids post personal information, or if bad words are flagged in status messages. Parents can also see what photos their kids have been posting, who they are befriending (and where those friends come from, and how old they are). As an added bonus, there is an Emergency Report feature, which allows parents to quickly print out a report of all of their kid’s activity over the past month.
For this particular app, we worked very closely with the development team at Schakra, and were responsible for UX, design and front end development including HTML, CSS, Javascript and ASP.NET. This was a very challenging and rewarding project for us, and we are grateful for the opportunity!
Check out GoGoStat Parental Guidance today >
We’re happy to announce the launch of the new Yerba Buena Engineering website. Yerba Buena is a prominent San Francisco-based engineering firm, and they needed a website to match. Check it out today >
Over the past week and a half, I was on a road trip of sorts up the Northern East coast to attend a wedding in Maryland, my girlfriends Psychology conference presentation in New Hampshire, and yet another wedding in Maine. This was a fun trip filled with plenty of sightseeing, new experiences, and lots of pre-wedding shenanigans with family and friends. Over the course of this trip, we stayed in a total of five hotels, two of which were actually more motel-ish.
Now, for better or worse, I don’t generally like to be without Internet access for too long. A day or two…okay, I can live with that, but more that that and I start to get twitchy. For whatever reason, I just like to be connected to what’s happening out in the world, or with work, or with my inbox, and I’d rather not let all that stuff linger around all untended to. Some might think this is really a thinly veiled Facebook or Myspace or Twitter addiction, but believe me that it’s not. While I frequent those social stops, I don’t feel any habitual need to drop anchor multiple times a day for hours at a time to go Facebooking (new verb?).
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We’re happy to announce the launch of another medical group site, San Bernardino Medical Group. SB Med was severely lacking in web presence, so they came to us for a revamp. What they got was a nice, modern, content-managed website with lots of functionality for their patients, including calendaring, events, news, and much more. Check out the site »
We’re extremely proud to announce the launch of the Los Angeles Film Festival website! This has been a really rewarding project, and Film Independent has been a great group of people to work with. Our challenge for this year’s festival was to take the aggressive new aesthetic and messaging of the festival, and translate that into a web presence that extended the branding and added interactivity.
For this year’s festival, we got the site up and running in content management to allow them to make lots of updates, whenever they please. Keep an eye on the site, as it will be evolving.
AKA: Why your image carousel pulling content from posts or pages in Wordpress is not working
We recently ran into a fairly frustrating little issue on a site we were working on. This particular site had a jQuery Cycle gallery on the home page, and it was pulling images from individual pages in Wordpress using query_posts(). Problem was, images in IE would appear and then disappear. This was happening in all versions of Internet Explorer.
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For serveral months now we’ve been working with Schakra, Inc. of Redmond, WA on user experience, interface design and front-end development for a number of new web applications. These apps all run on top of their amazing GoGoStat platform, which is a very sophisticated piece of cloud-based software and APIs that enable user-centric awareness.
The first of these apps to launch is Sync, which started its public beta phase yesterday. Sync allows users to synchronize their information between social media services, in a way that is really simple and hands off - just set up sync relationships, and then go off and deal only with the social media services you like. So say you have friends on Facebook, Twitter, mySpace, Google, MSN, Flickr, etc. Maybe you really love using Flickr for your photos, Google for your contacts, and Twitter for your status. But you need to keep your friends at Facebook in the loop on all this stuff. This is where Sync steps in. All syncs are handled in the background, so once you set up what syncs to where, the software does the rest for you! You just use the social media platforms you like, sync will do the rest!
We’re excited and proud to be a part of this ongoing project, and we’ve got a bunch of Invite Tokens for our readers if you’d like to try out Sync.
Just go here: GoGoStat Sync Signup »
When prompted to use a Beta Invite Token, use this: 39F34F94
Enjoy!
p.s. Please remember this is still in Beta - we need your help to find all the bugs. If you run in to something unusual, please submit feedback through Sync. Thansk!
We’ve been doing a lot of work for medical and physicians groups recently, and Alliance is a good example. Located in the High Desert region of Southern California, Alliance Desert Physicians serves all types of patients, with a special focus in Senior Wellness. Visit site »
We’re happy to announce the launch of the Venture Coast Law site. San Diego firm Venture Coast is a boutique law firm assisting entrepreneurs, small and mid-sized businesses, and nonprofit organizations through all stages of development. Visit the site »
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