Archive for the ‘Miscellany’ Category

Wednesday, December 9th, 2009

Coming Full Circle – All Major Magazine Content Soon to be Funneled to One Online Source

magazinesIt was recently announced that leading magazine publishers Conde Nast, Hearst, Meredith, News Corporation, and Time Inc. will be joining forces to create a single Web site that brings all of their periodicals together in a digital format. Think of it as the hulu.com for magazines: one platform, multiple media companies, and little effort for finding mucho content. It is yet to be named.

It is likely that these publishers will find success, as the syndication of TV and film at hulu.com is making owners NBC Universal and News Corp. a rising level of revenue. In theory, the syndication of magazines will follow suit. Soon, we won’t need to go from Web site to W

eb site, hard copy to hard copy searching for desired content. We’ll have one online source that has aggregated our favorite magazine content for us.

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Monday, November 30th, 2009

Workamajig – A Funny Name for an Application that’s All Business

wmj_logoA while back, we were in search of an application to tie all of our work into one single collaborative platform, in order to match the needs of complex and lengthy projects. We needed an online solution for project trafficking and management that would improve the quality of those areas through afforded efficiencies. In today’s market, the creative agency has several options to choose from when looking to coalesce their Traffic, Project Management, and Customer Relationship Management tools with their Purchasing, Accounting, and Finance systems into a single Enterprise Resource Program. Secondwind Online cites the most major and relevant players as:

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Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

Uniting the Disparate

co16-resizeThe Holy Grail of Web development is a language and development environment that unites client-side and server-side programming into one. There has been progress on this front – ASP.NET (using Visual Studio) is probably the best-known, allowing HTML page elements to be directly accessed from the server-side as server controls. It’s a shame the language has so many development overheads, and is, to be blunt, rather bloated, and, of course, being a Microsoft product, requires proprietary server technology. And we like open-source solutions here at Baldwin & Obenauf (as well as solutions that run on a Mac).

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Tuesday, April 14th, 2009

The iPhone and Team-Building (or not)

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The iPhone is pretty much the ultimate gadget. But it’s not just a gadget, it’s a game changer. The release of the iPhone initiated a paradigm shift in Internet connectivity. All of a sudden, there’s this device that is universally useful – it’s a phone, a full-featured Internet browser, a GPS, a games console, a book reader, an e-mail and text client, a camera… the list goes on. And, in the short time that the iPhone has been available, it now accounts for over 50% of all mobile Internet access.

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Friday, March 27th, 2009

Document File Formats in a Design Setting

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There are a handful of document file types that we’ll come across in a design environment. Here is a simple list broken into two main categories: Desktop publishing documents, which are files that we generally release for print and Office documents which are used for just about everything else from general information to billing to presentations to data organization.

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