Nationsports Website
A company desiring to be the next big Sports-focused social media network sought our help in putting together an attractive, smart and affordable starting website. Teaming the open source solutions of wordpress along with the kick-apps platform, we were able to create a full service platform that supported video, photos, online chatting, individual blogs, friends, events and a whole host of other features. The wordpress integration allowed for a monetizable solution using Google Ads and created a means for easy expression of ideas and thoughts to bring out the personality of the authors. In the end nationsports received a feature rich site that was affordable for them as a start up. (more…)
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Google’s Mayer: Staying Innovative In a Downturn
Great Article from Business Week…
When Larry Page and Sergey Brin co-founded Google (GOOG) 10 years ago, few people imagined the kind of influence it would wield today—not just on the Internet, but increasingly in such established industries as media and software.
Since then, Google has come to dominate the most lucrative piece of online advertising: the text ads placed next to its search results. Armed by an expansive mission to “organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful,” the company has used its rapidly growing profits to fund forays into online software applications and even radio and television advertising. No wonder Google shows up as one of the 10 names on BusinessWeek’s list of the World’s Most Influential Companies (more…)
Mets’ pizza patch the laughingstock of baseball uniform world
Who says that the details don’t matter. Another case of design gone awry…from Yahoo!
If you’re the type of person who doesn’t spend much time thinking about sleeve patches on uniforms, don’t worry.
Neither do the Mets.
The team recently unveiled the logo to celebrate their upcoming first season in Citi Field and to say that it’s being mocked worse than an oblivious American Idol contestant would be an understatement.
At its best, it’s being said to resemble the logo of a certain pizza company that once featured the ‘Noid. At its worst, it’s being categorized as the biggest affront to Mets fans since John Rocker’s sermon in SI.
Here’s what UniWatch’s Paul Lukas, a lifelong Mets fan, had to say:
“Compare (anything) to this, and the Mets’ effort comes off looking like amateur hour. Or maybe amateur minute. It looks like one of those cheapo generic marks you see in commercials or movies when the producers couldn’t afford the licensing fees for the real logos.”
Though some conspiracy theorists are saying that this is the Mets way of distancing the team from CitiGroup, that isn’t the case here. MLB doesn’t allow commercial logos on uniforms, so that wouldn’t even be an issue. More likely, it’s a case of the Mets being as dull and uninspiring as their ‘08 bullpen. They could’ve held a coloring contest among preschoolers and still ended up with a better design than the one above.
Luckily, if the Mets decide to answer the outcry by taking another stab at the design, they won’t have to look far for a few pointers. Here’s the patch the Yankees will be wearing for their inaugural season at new Yankee Stadium this year: