Last May Ballmer announced a new rebranding for Microsoft’s search engine. What was once MSN Search and Windows Live, is now Bing. Probably named for the availability for purchase of the non-offensive, semi-sensical, 4 letter domain, Bing is a lot more than just a mere marketing move. Last month I took it upon myself to give this new search initiative a fair chance by using it for a month straight. Here’s my findings.
This is our kitchen. Yes, our kitchen runs on Ubuntu.
We called a roofer to look at the roof because that’s what roofers do. He told us that although roofing problems where common they could be avoided with close to no maintenance to the roof. He was hired, and now pictures of the kitchen look like the one above. 
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Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) is the bane of our existence. There I said it.
As web standards have changed, browsers gotten better and people’s interactions with the internet become something else entirely; 20% of Internet users insist in keeping an 8 year old browser. Do you remember what websites were like 8 years ago? Here’s Microsoft’s own from the Wayback Machine’s archive. No video, no Javascript, no CSS, basically nothing of what makes a modern site.
Our friend and local young entrepreneur Alfredo Richner has just launched, along with a new partner Pablo Lopez, the latest buzz project in Puerto Rico. This time it’s not an island-wide video platform for tourism; it’s something much smaller and yet perhaps equally grand, a fun iPhone app. Continue reading »
EDIT: Google now crawls flash content more efficiently. However you should still take this post into consideration as the Google bot still does not index dynamically generated xml data.
There’s a hot debate amongst web developers over Flash. Some swear by it others would rather see it disappear. We as usual live in the middle of the debate understanding that there are situations in which it is both necessary and appropriate, and others where it is just a distraction. In most cases, as with our own website, we mix both forms to complement each other in the manner that best suits the particular project. Nevertheless we’d like to put an end to the myth that serves as one of the main talking points for those against Flash.
Since this article was published, Google has made changes on the way flash sites are crawled you can read about it here: Flash SEO- A seriously needed How To
When we relaunched our new ML Studio site we payed very close attention to the SEO (Search Engine Optimization), particularly the keywords used in the site’s content. We are still waiting for correct submissions in search engines but have had time to stop and think on the keywords we prioritized on.
We think that what diferentiates our company from the rest in PR is our focus on web development and RIAs (Rich internet applications) specificaly flash based ones; so we focused our content on this. However out of curiosity, Continue reading »
