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Archive for September, 2009
The Roaring 2000’s was exactly that: ROARING. The 2009 Media Genesis summer extravaganza was a great success. Party goers enjoyed local brew from Atwater Brewing Company and appetizers served by the Whitney staff. The weather was wonderful for ringing in our 13th year in business.
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It used to be that someone stealing your internet for a free connection was all you had to worry about when it came to protecting your computer. Then, stealing data become the popular thing to do. Now, attackers are even able to maliciously modify data. All of a sudden someone using your internet connection for free seems just a little silly compared to someone changing an electronic medication order on a hospital network and killing patients. Just as technology has become more advanced and efficient, so have the people who want to get a hold of that sensitive information.
The internet is a second reality where users create persona’s and garner reputations separate from those earned in the physical, day-to-day world. In Reality 2.0 – Web Edition, online reputations and presences can have absolutely nothing to do with Reality 1.0 – Earth Edition, commonly considered “the real world.”
Until recently, Michigan has ranked in the top 10 nationwide for foreclosure rates, according to the Detroit Free Press.
Media Genesis and The Detroit Office of Foreclosure Prevention and Response (FPR) teamed up to design an online resource to inform those in danger of foreclosure. The interactive website features informational videos and resources both local to Wayne County and nationwide.
ForeclosureDetroit.org’s home page features a simple step-by-step Flash module outlining each stage of the foreclosure process, from ‘No Missed Payments’ to ‘Can’t Pay Property Taxes’ to ‘Need a Place to Live.’
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A Detroit organization hopes to start a conversation.
A conversation about how to improve and inspire change in Detroit and its surrounding areas. With the evolution of the Web, these conversations can all live in one place – www.OneD.org.
One D is part of a regional, civic initiative that launched in November 2006 to support progress in Southeast Michigan. It is lead by Edsel B. Ford II and CEO’s of eight organizations – Detroit Renaissance, Detroit Regional Chamber, New Detroit–The Coalition, Detroit Metro Convention & Visitors Bureau, United Way for Southeastern Michigan, Metropolitan Affairs Coalition, Southeast Michigan Council of Governments, and Cultural Alliance of Southeastern Michigan.
The site focuses on five priority areas: Economic Prosperity, Educational Preparedness, Race Relations, Regional Transit and Quality of Life.
Founded in early 2009, Getlisted.org is a tool for tracking businesses online across the major local search engine platforms Google, Yahoo!, MSN Live Search and Best of the Web. This tool allows users to search and immediately find your business location and information in a local search listing, lending your business more credibility than one that isn’t listed anywhere.
Even if you don’t have a current website or you’re in the process of redesigning it, you can list your business online if you have an email address. This is a good way to gain visibility without committing to a particular brand identity.
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Name-squatting has been a sneaky and shameful practice that has existed with Web domains as long as they have been around. This is when individuals or third parties purchase random domain names in hopes that somebody will want to purchase them someday. If that actually happens, then they will ask for up to $3,500 or more for a domain name that usually sells for $10. Although this can be obnoxious or annoying, there are ways around it, especially with trademarked names. Social media websites, however, are a different story.
The time has come. The time is now. Internet Explorer 6, will you please go now?!
Much like Dr. Suess’s beloved Marvin K. Mooney, it is getting to be about time that IE6 went. It will be a solemn passing of once a mega-browser whose life has spanned much longer than we could ever imagine.
It seems like just yesterday that IE6 came packaged with Windows XP. It was a savior. It was newer, faster and prettier. Who didn’t love that default “Luna” theme that came with a shiny new install of XP? It wasn’t just good looks and that little extra zip that made IE6 great. At the time DHTML enhancements, content restricted inline frames, a fancy media bar, Windows Messenger integration and automatic image resizing made IE6 the darling of web. Well, until 2003 that is. (more…)
