There Is No Fold!
Friday, March 27th, 2009 Posted in Manning News | No Comments »Designing for the web comes with a unique set of challenges and thus has its own 'charm'. User interactivity, browser compatibility, connection speed, color calibration, flash, html, css... these are all factors that have to be accounted for when building ...
Internet Privacy Gets a Black Eye
Thursday, March 26th, 2009 Posted in Digital & Online Technology, Marketing & PR Trends | 1 Comment »Companies gathering information from consumers on the Internet need to be upfront about how they will use that content. There is a shocking story in the Thursday March 26th New York Times about how one site, www.realage.com is really ...
Facebook the Real-Time BBS
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 Posted in Digital & Online Technology | 1 Comment »Facebook's changed a lot from the online university student community it was in 2004. It used to be that you joined, selected what classes you were taking--or a bunch of silly, fake classes as was the case for some of ...
Distribution Channels Are Changing, Pt. 2
Monday, March 23rd, 2009 Posted in Inspiration, Manning News | No Comments »Patrick, our designer, touched on the changing landscape of distribution last week. I think this topic is on a lot of people's minds today. End users are becoming less 'users' and more creators, and much savvier. Since many marketing and ...
Distribution Channels Are Changing, Pt. 1
Friday, March 20th, 2009 Posted in Manning News | 4 Comments »[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="500" caption="Newspaper Graveyard"][/caption] Everyone knows that the internet has really rocked the boat of traditional media outlets. File sharing and iTunes have taken a bite out of the record industry. Newspapers everywhere are in the midst of a ...
March Madness on Demand Adds More Features, Higher Quality Video
Monday, March 16th, 2009 Posted in Digital & Online Technology | 1 Comment »CBS Sports has enhanced their NCAA March Madness on Demand site by offering third party sites access to free applications that feed live scores and other information from games. Additionally, the NCAA March Madness Developer site offers a selection of widgets that ...
Would You Buy An A-Rod Avatar? The Latest in Baseball Cards
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009 Posted in Digital & Online Technology | 1 Comment »Baseball card manufacturer Topps is introducing a new card that will project a 3-D avatar of a baseball player on a computer screen if placed in front of a webcam. Could this be the future of business cards?
GOP Puts Out RFP For New Website
Monday, March 9th, 2009 Posted in Digital & Online Technology | 1 Comment »The Republican National Committee has put out an RFP for a new website. One can only assume that Obama's successful web campaign and the GOP's recent identity crisis has led to the urgency of this effort. The specs are pretty ...
Get the ABA To-Go
Friday, March 6th, 2009 Posted in Manning News | No Comments »Are you losing a significant percentage of your potential audience? That's the problem Manning solved by creating ABAnow.org, a website for the American Bar Association's Annual and Mid-Year Meeting news site that is optimized for viewing on smart phones. Creating a mobile ...