The Case Against Native Mobile Apps

Are you considering building a mobile app? We’ve been getting a lot of requests lately. Often, we’ll suggest that we build it as a mobile website and not a native app. Why? Native apps are great if your goal is to monetize software, but they don’t...

Cloud Services: How reliable is reliable?

Hurricane Sandy brought the threat of downed power lines and flooding  to our area this past month.  While we fared pretty well compared to others along the New Jersey coast, we did lose power to our office.  We’ve lost power before, the most memorable being a...

The new face of production service

As convergence keeps sucking traditional businesses like agencies, corporate communications, production companies, rental and post houses into its vortex, we are left with a very blurred landscape. Traditionally, a corporation or agency would call a production company...

It’s ACES

In the last couple of weeks we’ve seen a lot of “new “ advances in camera technology.  Here’s an update. 4k is the new 2k which last year was just High Def. With 8k images looming just around the corner it brings up the question of,“ How do I get these great...

Responsive Web Design: More Than a Buzzword

Responsive Web Design… It sounds pretty sexy. At least  from a web developer’s viewpoint it does… sexy, new, exciting. No doubt you’ve heard somebody mention it at some point in the last year as it’s becoming the “web 2.0” of...

Future Past, Meet Present.

While eating breakfast on location in  Washington DC last week, I was reading USA Today. An article mentioned that Google was wiring Kansas City with their own fiber system that would deliver Gig E  speed. That’s about 100 times faster than the current “fast cable”...