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Improve your web site's performance with WebDriven's Site Audit
At this time of year, clients routinely ask us to review their web sites and provide recommendations on how to improve the user experience and increase traffic. For a relatively small investment, the WebDriven team will perform a comprehensive audit...
Welcome to WebDriven. We're glad you're here.
WebDriven is an award-winning professional web services firm with offices in Boston and Washington, DC serving clients across the U.S. and around the world with top-notch web design and web development services. Warner and D.J. have been at this...
Google Uses Custom Tricycle for Street Views
To help get the Street View images in those locations hard to reach by car, the Google Maps team now has a kicked-up tricycle -- loaded with 7 or 8 cameras and all the gear needed to manage all the...
Search space heats up; Wolfram Alpha & Twitter Search (Video)
In this video, ZDNet's search engine guru Sam Diaz discusses growth in the search space; specifically the development of Wolfram Alpha and Twitter Search....
Video Site Usage Up 2000% since 2003; Social Media Usage Up 883%
Nielsen just released its Global Online Landscape study which underscores the growing shift toward video and social media....
Google Android Dream Phone Faces Low Expectations from Readers (eWeek)
Interesting piece from eWeek on Google Android release in October: eWEEK readers refuse to believe that Google and T-Mobile's Android-based Dream smart phone will sell the 600,000 to 700,000 units HTC has said it expects to move when the device...
WebDriven Wins Web Marketing Association Web Award
BOSTON - WebDriven (http://BeWebDriven.com) has received the Standard of Excellence award in the Non-Profit category in the Web Marketing Association's 12th annual WebAward Competition for Web site development. WebDriven is a full-service web development and design firm with offices in...
Mozilla Ubiquity Makes Mashups for the Masses (Video)
The 'Foxy folks at Mozilla have just released Ubiquity, an application which allows the less technically-minded of us to blend web-based data and information into collections called 'mashups.'...
Yahoo Gallery Highlights Applications Using Yahoo API
Thanks to Yahoo and a developer named dataffect, I can now track USGS earthquake data and map it on the good ole US of A. Or I can find Long Beach hotels close to the airport, courtesy of 'cityres'....
Google Android Launch Held Back by Carriers
Wall Street Journal reports today that Google's Android mobile platform won't launch until Q4 and not Q3 as originally hoped. Hardly a surprise but it goes to show how difficult it can be to pull all of the pieces together...
Doodle 4 Google: Vote for your favorite doodle
Google solicited thousands of entries from K-12 students around the country and selected the top forty (ten doodles for each of the four grade groups). Winners of the contest will be featured on Google's homepage....
Borders Unveils New Digital-Friendly Concept Store
Earlier this year Ann Arbor, Michigan-based book retailer Borders unveiled a new concept store in its hometown. With an eye to creating an environment more enticing to the digitally-enabled, the new store allows customers to not only purchase books but...
What's That: TinyURL
So, if you're anything like me, you read a dozen emails, blog or Facebook posts everyday with a link which begins with "http://tinyurl.com" What is that all about?...
WebDriven Selected to Create Web Properties for Public Television Series
Earlier this year, WebDriven partnered with Grace Creek Media to create a private preview website for a new public television series, Closer To Truth. This site was developed in part to drive interest in the series for public television program...
Yahoo! Launches Shine Website for Women
Accessorized to the hilt with more than 15 major publications - like Good Housekeeping, Allure and Glamour - Yahoo! has launched Shine, a new website to serve the growing population of women online....
Duke Scores with New Wireless Network
According to a recent press release, Duke University will soon surpass other colleges with more than 2,500 wireless internet access points....
Google, Wine, & Codeweavers make Photoshop Run on Linux
Stephen Shankland's Underexposed blog on CNet is reporting today that Google is funding development for Photoshop-on-Linux. But is porting of individual applications the right approach?...
Google Android Releases New SDK for Mobile Development Platform
Last week, an update to Google's much-anticipated Android mobile development platform's SDK was released....
What's a Noogler?
"Noogler" is a term reserved for new Google employees...
Priceline for Music: Radiohead Lets Fans Determine CD Price
While hardly the first music artist to offer their latest album in online format initially, the British (is 'eclectic' a genre?) rock group Radiohead has gone one step further with the release of In Rainbows....
MIT's John Maeda on Simplicity and Complexity
MIT Media Labs' John Maeda discusses key concepts from his recent book Laws of Simplicity at TED. Maeda is known for creating both intricate designs and simple web interfaces, such as this one which creates a simple visual from USPS...
HDN Studio Partners with WebDriven
WebDriven has partnered with HDN Studio -- a design firm in Alexandria, VA -- to provide Web design and development services for client projects. HDN specializes in award-winning graphic design for leading companies, non-profits and associations nationally....
WebDriven Launches Sites to Support Major JDRF Initiatives on Diabetes Research
WebDriven created a Children's Congress website for JDRF's June event in Washington, D.C. More than 150 Delegates from around the country and internationally convened to share their stories with legislators and spread the word on juvenile diabetes....
Blogging of the TV Stars
Blogs on and about popular TV shows are nothing new. The new, new thing is setting up the show's characters as bloggers, passing on tidbits on subplots, story lines, fellow characters and other often random stuff in an attempt to...
Social Media Users' Bill of Rights: Good idea?
In an attempt to get social network users and providers alike discussing -- err, debating -- what constitutes a truly 'open' social media application, a blog post at Open Social Web has outlined a "Bill of Rights" for users of...
