So I probably should have written this back when @aplusk (Ashton Kutcher) and @cnnbrk(CNN Breaking News) were having their much publicized race to 1 million followers back in April, but I really wanted the hype to die down before blogging about it and looking like I was just jumping on the bandwagon.
Twitter’s been around for a couple of years now and those of us in the industry have been using it (on and off) since then. Now that the cat is out of the bag and the mainstream’s starting to catch on, I feel like I should mention some of the reasons why it’s becoming so popular and why I use it.

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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.

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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.

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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 »

We’ve been so busy writing about web and business while the real goal of this blog was to give you a little window into our heads. So, here’s a list of the things online which I enjoy the most.

1. This American Life
This was originally a radio show from Chicago Public Radio which finally found it’s real audience on the Internet. Each week they take a topic and tell one to four stories based on that topic. Continue reading »

Hundreds of reflections, thousands of rounded corners  and 4 years later, the web 2.0 hype is finally over. I still remember the term being new to me and admittedly our company suffered many designs biased by the trend. However, below (literally) the now widely adopted tools from the era such as RSS, comments, and AJAX asynchrony in RIA’s, lies a trend we gladly use and try to include in most of the sites we make: The Quick-Link Pane. Continue reading »