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Archive for July, 2008

Customize your own Obama logo

July 30th, 2008

While researching Flash techniques, one of us in the interactive department stumbled upon a site that lets you add a photo of your choosing to the center of Barack Obama’s campaign logo. Your upload goes virtually unmoderated, and will appear in a Flickr photostream shortly thereafter. While it doesn’t really serve any purpose whatsoever besides [...]

AJAX Requests Breakdown

July 29th, 2008

Asynchronous JavaScript and XML has become very popular. This technology allows portions of a web page to be updated without refreshing the entire page. For quite some time, I have been only using HTML as my format of choice for returning data after an AJAX request. For the things we have been doing at Martino [...]

Do sports really matter?

July 24th, 2008

Among the many newsfeeds to which I subscribe, the fake news supplied by www.theonion.com consistently is the most enjoyable, if not the most informative. One needs a slightly off-beat view of the world to appreciate The Onion. A recent story on The Onion’s sports page, entitled: Hard-Hitting Investigative Report Still Only About Sports not only [...]

Support your local brewery!

July 18th, 2008

An interesting blog about beer, vintage advertising, and supporting local businesses in Rochester. They seem to like what we’ve been doing with Dundee and Genny. Especially I Tagged Genny.

The work of social networking

July 14th, 2008

It started as research. Newly assigned to the Monroe Community College account here at Martino Flynn, I was looking for ways to immerse myself in the high school and college environment. I needed to connect with this audience. And to try to understand what this whole business of “social networking” was all about. So I [...]