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Posted: December 30, 2013 | Filed Under:
Apparently The Who never performed "Going Mobile" on stage together, so here's Daltrey playing it. At any rate, what happened in 2013 was that it became insanely clear that your business has to have a mobile-friendly site. You can read our earlier posts on the topic, where we use the stats like "20% of American internet users already access the web ONLY on mobile phones and...
Posted: December 9, 2013 | Filed Under: Client News
MyLuckyTimes is a fun concept from a local customer who wanted to showcase his proprietary blend of astrology and numerology.
We built him an easy-to-use site that does some heavy computing behind the scenes. The site creates instant custom "lucky number" calenders based on the user's birth date and location. Users can download the calendars to their phones or print them out,...
Posted: December 5, 2013 | Filed Under: Geek Love
Here's a lucky seven roundup of geeky, tech-y goodies for your loved ones during this holiday season.
1. Check out these custom-printed marshmallows from Boomf.com. They use your Instagram photos. It's a ridiculous idea, but they're a fabulous conversation piece. They will surely kill a good twenty minutes of awkward family time.
2. Touchscreen gloves. Everybody who lives in a cold...
Posted: November 20, 2013 | Filed Under: Tech Tips
Recently T324's David Daniels gave a presentation on SEO to local businesses. He started out with some true or false questions.
Doing social media for my business will help my search ranking - true or false?
Absolutely true, and at least for right now, truer all the time. Google and other search engines increasingly value "social proof" - what people say about you online and who...
Posted: November 15, 2013 | Filed Under: Client News
Saint Joseph Notre Dame High School, a Catholic parish high school in Alameda that offers a rigorous college preparatory education, needed an updated website.
It was time for a design that would allow for complex functionality, saving staff time and serving their customer base better.
SJND asked us to update their existing design, make it easier to update content (they were tired of Contribute...
Posted: November 12, 2013 | Filed Under: T324 News
Tomorrow at the Berkeley Chamber of Commerce: Top Ten Search Engine Lessons Learned, by David Daniels of T324. This is a short presentation on the issues we encounter most often working with our clients around SEO. David will offer a mix of practical advice you can use right now and principles to implement in your strategy going forward. We’ll discuss:
Common myths and the one mistake we...
The chart below, made by Statista from Shareaholic research, shows Facebook is king of the traffic referrals among Shareaholic's user base.
Pinterest comes in second, way out in front of much older Twitter.
We think Pinterest is just getting started as a commercial traffic driver, so this doesn't surprise us.
The Shareaholic article covers the rest of the pack too-...
Posted: November 4, 2013 | Filed Under: Tech News
Meg Whitman recently made some strong statements about 3D printing for HP in Bangkok. I dunno about you, but when Meg Whitman swings her lady-business around, I take it seriously.
Also, HP Labs has a project called RAGNAROK (Research on Advancing Glass & Non-organic Applications to Recreate Objects & Kinetics)!!!!! You can read an interesting abstract on the project's work...