So we got a Microsoft Surface machine at Phenomblue a couple weeks back and the tech team freaked, as expected. Everyone from art direction to programmer to business development were all over the machine from the moment we received the thing from Fed Ex. After the quick and rather ravenous un-boxing, the attempt to follow terribly inaccurate documented ......

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Found a great resource today in SpringWidgets.com. The website allows you to pretty easily create, distribute, and track your own countdown and feed banners. Take a look at the widgets I created in about 20 minutes here. While there are many other banner automation wizards on the web, SprngWidgets does an exemplary job at making the distribution process ......

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One of our developers at Phenomblue posted a cool little Adobe Air app to use as a real time play list for WOXY.com. WOXY is an independent Internet radio station playing all the latest and classic Indie rock. It's by far my favorite radio station and we actually stream it through our office all day over the PA system. Anyway, check out the widget here ......

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I have been in this business for a long time and have had huge success marketing to all types of consumers through interactive avenues and new media. One of the miss-conceptions I hear most when pitching new clients is the idea that the older consumer base in America is techno-illiterate and that marketing to them through online channels is not only ......

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I am constantly asked by clients, colleagues, and other industry professionals about SEO and even more so about the importance of SEO expertise in the future of online marketing campaigns. My answer always reflects the ideals of track back links, referral websites, and genuine content as the best way to win the organic search game. When it comes down ......

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Over at Phenomblue, we updated our website recently. The site is built on the Adobe Flex framework with a bunch of CMS stuff built on Microsoft .NET framework with a SQL Server back end. Check out the Phenomblue Blog for more info, or just click through to the new site. Phenomblue, Website, Adobe, Flex, Demo ......

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Have a BlackBerry? Who are we kidding, who doesn't right? Anyway, do you Twitter more than you would admit in public? If you answered "Yes" to both questions, QSMS is a new piece of software (free I might add) that allows you apply a shortcut to the letter "Q" to send a text message similar to how "C" is a shortcut for composing an email message. You ......

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