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The World Is Full of Spammers: Think Ahead
As a software developer I’m constantly challenged with avoiding annoying spammers. I easily spend 30% of my time working against people that serve no purpose but to bother me. The challenge isn’t simply blocking bots and spammers on development projects, it’s balancing the blockage with the loss of real users. A good test case, the [...]
The Wow Factor: Being on Digg and being Dissed.
So yesterday we were on digg for our recent launch of client site SimplyFired.com. Obviously we are really proud of the work we did for them and don’t mind the attention, but what is with the Digg user base? Don’t get me wrong, it is nice to see that some people actually read our little [...]
Building Web 2.0: A Case Study for Simply Fired’s Redesign
So today the Media Crumb team, with the help of Simply Hired’s Ops team, launched Simply Fired.com into the wide open space of the web. It was a two month long process for MC and something we really enjoyed working on. It is not often that a design & development firm can say they have [...]
Sometimes It Pays To Not Copy Your Competition
For a small startup company like, TechDiversions.com, we’ve learned something immensely useful – it’s not always wise to mimic your competition when designing a front-page layout for your website. This is especially true when your competition is highly brick & morter based while you’re purely an online entity. For instance, a few of our competing [...]
Programmer Down!
What do you do when your programmer and partner is sick with the flu? You get off your lazy butt and start finishing up this site you started almost a year ago! Yeah thats right, I said it. For more then a year, the MC site has sat here with nothing but a coming soon [...]