Frye / Wiles Blog Archive for the ‘Creative Business’ Category
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 »
Hi Everyone - we are having an issue with our phones being intermittently down due to a problem with our provider. We’re still here! If you need to talk, send us an email, or try our direct lines:
- Rob Frye - 951 313 0191
- Nate Wiles - 951 643 7623
- Archa Sung - 951 643 7633
- Dani Cabrera - 951 643 7625
Our friends over at Concrete5, purveyors of all that is amazing content management system software development, are trying to go to the very cool South by Southwest Interactive. For the uninitiated, SXSW Interactive is to emerging tech what SXSW Music is to music…. a week-long showcase of the best and most innovative minds in the industry.
Concrete5 definitely falls into that category in the web content management sphere, so let’s all help them get there!
http://www.concrete5.org/sxsw/
Every once in a while, there are breakthroughs that are revolutionary in their simplicity and focus. Twitter is an example that comes to mind. For me and in my work, Balsamiq Mockups is just such a breakthrough.
In the world of User Experience Design, there has been some really interesting research and publication on the importance and immense value of sketching in the web and application design process (for more on this, I recommend Bill Buxton’s life-changing book Sketching User Experiences). People, it seems, have a different psychological reaction to sketches during the concept development and experience design process. When something seems quick and rough, people collaborate and think. When presented with ideas that are too fully formed, people will approach them as being complete ideas, and as such will make black or white decisions about them.
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So after a blog post I made a few months ago that garnered a lot of attention on a scam outfit known as the ‘Business Filings Division’ requesting - nay - demanding, that I pay $239 immediately to file my supposedly late Statement of Information filing for my LLC, this same group is at is again. This time in the guise of the ‘Corporate Filing Unit’ (they have also gone by the Annual Filing Division), we just received the same letter from these jokers now demanding $225 from us to once again file our Statement of Information. This despite the fact that it’s been filed, and despite the fact the these scammers are being investigated by the Attorney General in California. Ugh. They just don’t know when to say when.
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Hi Everyone,
Just a quick note, we’re transitioning our phones over to a new system. If for some reason you get sent directly to voicemail, please leave a message and we’ll call you right back! (we get email notifications of voicemails). Sorry about the inconvienence, this should be taken care of in a day or so.
-Rob
UPDATE 9/3: The new system is in place and working now!
A couple of weeks ago Dani and I were invited to The Art Institute of California / Inland Empire. We were there to answer questions regarding their web design courses and to give advice on what they can improve to keep up to date with teaching web design.
As you may or may not know, Rob, Dani, and I are all tied to AI. Rob teaches web design and development courses at the school, Dani is back in school for their Media Arts and Animation program, and I graduated a few years ago with an Associates in their Interactive Media Web Design program (I also have a Bachelors in Graphic Design from Cal State San Bernardino). I guess we owe a great deal to the school and felt honored to take part in the advisory committee and it was our chance to help out the new crop of graduates.
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Dear Frye / Wiles Clients and Associates:
First of all, thanks again for all your business this last year, and happy holidays to all! It’s been another good year for us, and we’re looking forward to working with you on lots of exciting projects in 2009.
We wanted to let you know that Frye / Wiles will be on a skeleton crew from Dec 25 to Jan 5 so that our staff can get some much-needed rest and time with their families, so if you have a slight delay in contact us, please bear with us. All email and phone messages will be checked, but the response time may be a little less than instant.
Thanks, and have a wonderful holiday season!
As has been widely reported in the news media today, a very major security flaw has been discovered in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser. The flaw has only been observed in Internet Explorer 7, but Microsoft has stated that it is theoretically present in all versions of their browser from IE 5 to IE 8. This flaw could allow malicious people to steal your passwords.
At the moment, Frye / Wiles is recommending the following action to all its Windows-based clients:
- Switch Browsers Immediately: We recommend Mozilla Firefox
- Update Windows in a few days - Microsoft has acknowledged the flaw and is working on an update. This update will probably be released through the Windows Update utility (it’s a good idea to keep up to date on your updates anyway).
- Be careful: So far the exploit has recognized on about 10,000 sites. If you are entering password information, I would be very hesitant to do it in IE, at least until the fix is made available.
This is a very serious issue. Please be cautious.
Read the original article from the BBC
