• Jan142009

    UMS: Site Review Podcast, Episode 4

    Posted by Gene in Uncategorized, Design, Blogging

    Check us out this week. We’re back after a long Holiday break.

    This week we talk about ESPN (espn.com), Shannon Moeller (shannonmoeller.com), Giant Creative, (madebygiant.com), and NewGenCoal (newgencoal.com.au). Enjoy!

  • Oct282008

    CAN-SPAM updates to the law, what you should know.

    Posted by Gene in Uncategorized, Email Marketing

    On May 12th, 2008 the FTC updated some of its rules concerning the CAN-SPAM law(s), that should concern any of you that practice email marketing. The extended measures attempt to address 4 areas, in their words:

    (1) an e-mail recipient cannot be required to pay a fee, provide information other than his or her e-mail address and opt-out preferences, or take any steps other than sending a reply e-mail message or visiting a single Internet Web page to opt out of receiving future e-mail from a sender;
    (2) the definition of “sender” was modified to make it easier to determine which of multiple parties advertising in a single e-mail message is responsible for complying with the Act’s opt-out requirements;
    (3) a “sender” of commercial e-mail can include an accurately-registered post office box or private mailbox established under United States Postal Service regulations to satisfy the Act’s requirement that a commercial e-mail display a “valid physical postal address”; and
    (4) a definition of the term “person” was added to clarify that CAN-SPAM’s obligations are not limited to natural persons.

    Here’s the skinny in my opinion:

    Overall it’s about “permission” if someone doesn’t give you permission to send them email, don’t send it to them. This includes “forward, send-to-a-friend forms and people sharing lists with you.” Don’t do it, you can get in trouble. They also identify the “sender” as the person or company behind the email campaign - where it should be.

    FYI: If you didn’t know, or never bothered to look up the name, CAN-SPAM stands for “Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing”. I’m thinking the name is actually getting outdated… Read the updates here.

  • Aug052008

    Sir Ken Robinson on Creativity

    Posted by Jason in Uncategorized

    TED is a conference held once every year. The most brilliant thinkers of our time are invited to speak of their lives and specialties (think: our lifetimes Socrates, our Einstein, our Turing), with the mission to inspire. It’s been held since 1984 and has recently been open to the public.

    Sir Ken Robinson, knighted in 2003 for his work in education, the arts, and creativity, obtained his PhD from University of London in 1981. He’s advised numerous countries, organizations, and institutions on a number of subjects, but focuses mainly on the repercussions of suppressing creativity.

    It’s only a few minutes long, watch the entire presentation.

    http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html

    One of the best excerpts, “If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.” — and continues to say, our modern education system is built entirely with the idea of “being wrong” as the worst possible outcome of any test of your capacity.

  • Aug042008

    Design and the Olympic Torch

    Posted by Gene in Uncategorized

    TorchesNew York Times has a really interesting piece on the history and design of the Olympic Torch.

    Every Olympic set of games brings us a new logo treatment, special architecture and of course the torch itself. I have never really paid attention to it, but it’s fascinating to look over the past torch designs.

    Full news item at New York Times

  • Jul242008

    Obama is design savvy

    Posted by Gene in Uncategorized, Design

    I can’t say enough about the design efforts that go behind Obama’s campaign materials. Here is just the latest design nerdery that i’ve come to expect and love form his design staff.

    obama

    The poster on the right is an example of famous German Bauhaus poster. Given that Obama is on a trip to Germany this week, his design staff decided to show a subtle tip of the hat to those historic German designers. Not to mention one of my favorite design periods/schools of all time.

    Link: Meaningful Distractions Blog

  • Jul102008

    Client Website Launch

    Posted by Gene in Uncategorized, Our Clients

    sc-heritagecorridor.orgWe are happy to let everyone know about our newest client website launch: The South Carolina National Heritage Corridor.

    The South Carolina National Heritage Corridor extends 240 miles across South Carolina, stretching from the mountains of Oconee County, along the Savannah River, to the port city of Charleston. It is divided into four regions and contains the following counties: Abbeville, Aiken, Anderson, Bamberg, Barnwell, Charleston, Colleton, Dorchester, Edgefield, Greenwood, McCormick, Oconee, Orangeburg and Pickens. The 14 counties of the Heritage Corridor offer a cross-section of the state’s historical, cultural, and natural resources that tell the vibrant story of South Carolina’s centuries-long evolution and culture.

    Check it out: sc-heritagecorridor.org

  • Apr092008

    Another reason why you should NEVER use NetworkSolutions for your domain registrations

    Posted by Gene in Uncategorized, Business

    evilTechCrunch has reported that NetworkSolutions is now hijacking subdomains when you use their domain registration (specifically their DNS) services. This is most reprehensible. I’m sure this is copyright infringement too. If you haven’t already, you should move any domains that you have registered with them to another registrar, who knows what they will do next…

    Subdomain - Generally known as a “Domain within a Domain”, subdomains are web addresses built upon an existing domain name. For example, “subdomain.domain.com” is built upon “domain.com”.

  • Mar172008

    AOL making a play with Bebo?

    Posted by Gene in Uncategorized

    bebo time on siteAOL just paid $850 million for bebo.com, who cares right? Well it just caught my eye that AOL made this play when all you seem to hear about these days is Yahoo and Microsoft or what Facebook and MySpace has done recently… AOL silently has one of the largest shares of instant messenger users on the internet with it’s AOL messaging platform and (I didn’t know this until just now) ICQ. Facebook and MySpace blow bebo.com out of the arena with their sheer number of visitors (though Bebo had 22.4 million unique visitors worldwide in January), but if you break down the numbers people spend more time on bebo.com than it’s competitors.

    What’s my point, not much really, other than with all these stories of Yahoo, Google, Facebook and MySpace all the time, just don’t forget AOL. The last time I heard from them they were killing the Netscape project, which seemed like a good business move but still sad at the same time. Sounds like they are making pretty strong moves to me these days.

  • Jul062007

    Fascinating? Really?

    Posted by Jay in Uncategorized

    I’m struggling to find the point of this article by Douglas Karr, titled Is the next President of the United States running Linux?

    According to Netcraft, Ron Paul’s site was previously run on Microsoft IIS but as of June 5th it’s now on Apache!

    That’s worthy of an exclamation point? That’s like saying Ross Perot used to drive a Ford, but now he drives a Chevrolet! His results show that the majority of Republican candidates have websites hosted on Windows servers, while a majority of Democrats run something other than Windows (Linux or FreeBSD). He sums it up by saying it’s ‘fascinating’. Please, Douglas, tell us why it’s fascinating.

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