Going Mobile in 2009

Most sites can’t exist as just plain text. Sites are meant to be dynamic and visually appealing. This doesn’t always work when crossing over to a mobile platform. With mobile browsing increasing, more and more people are asking, “what can I do to optimize my site for mobile browsing?” Luckily, smart [...]

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Liz Burr

In this weeks of Peeps of the Web, we talk with the dynamic, blogger, new media entrepreneur and consultant Liz Burr. Liz is the former Interactive Project Manager for New Media at KCET, the Los Angeles PBS affiliate. Liz recently left her position at KCET, to focus on her blossoming consulting business and other personal [...]

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Is Urban a Euphemism for Black?

…I don’t believe it is, but it’s obvious that a lot black/urban niche sites disagree with me. Over time the terms black and urban have become dangerously close to being intermingled in respects to web applications, content, and marketing, making it very difficult to identify an audience. As most of us know, one of the [...]

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Google Launches App Engine

Last night at Campfire One, Google announced the preview release launch of the Google App Engine, “a tool enabling developers to run web applications on Google’s infrastructure.” Google’s goal is to “make it easy to get started with a new web app, and then make it easy to scale when that app reaches the point [...]

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