Entries from November 2008
Here at Boston Interactive, we hold monthly team meetings to keep everyone aware of the functions of each department in the company. Last week, we had our big finale from the Creative department. Although our presentations are intended for BI employees only, this video is just too good to keep to ourselves.
Click the link to see Part 1 on YouTube… Our Designers Take the Cake!
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Take a look around. You might have noticed that some features of the Big Ideas Blog have changed!
When we launched the blog in May, we knew it would evolve and grow with time. Although it’s still a work in progress, we’ve stepped it up a notch in an effort to make this blog more user-friendly. You’ll see that we’ve updated quite a few of its elements. Read On
Just recently Google announced the search rating functionality within their family of products. So now, if you are logged into your Google account and you perform a search you can weed out any sites you deem to be inconsequential to your results. What’s better? They will never appear again, ever. It’s a kind of smart thinking system which indexes your preferences, associates them with your account and remembers.
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I was watching the Pats game on Sunday at a bar on Boylston in Boston and ended up having a conversation with the VP of Sales for a large Telemarketing firm. We shot the proverbial, well you know, but the conversation ultimately turned to business. After our respective self downloads he posed an interesting situation to me. Seems his company is spread out across the country in various departments and structures. It is hard for all the players to stay in touch with each other and disseminate information except through email, which can slow the network down and also clutter the inbox.
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Last week Microsoft announced the future of its two biggest products (Windows and Office), and how they will move toward offering them as “Cloud Computing” services. They will now join such giants as Amazon, Google, and IBM in a new trend which seemingly will change the way that companies manage their IT needs in the future.
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