Digitaria Blogs

Digitaria's Exciting Two Page Spread in .Net Magazine

bobbyghoshal — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:05:48 +0000

Author: Bobby Ghoshal Digitaria has made a significant footprint in one of the U.K.'s top web design publications, .Net magazine, with a two page company-spotlight spread. This news arrived to us just in time for the holidays and it's just the kind of gift we love to receive! The spread by .Net magazine is a testament to our ability to innovate not only in design but also emerging technologies...

Sports Industry Leading the HD Revolution

reenaleone — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:31:18 +0000

Author: John Van Spyk The next generation of Internet video for the sports industry is upon us. Full-screen, high definition streaming video is a reality that changes the sports landscape for good. It has long been understood that Sports fans have been driving force behind the sales of new high-definition televisions. Numerous surveys have shown that this adoption of HD televisions conclude that...

12th Annual Digitaria Costume Contest

bobbyghoshal — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:37:17 +0000

Author: Adam Storr Happy Halloween Eve! Every Halloween, Digitarians dress up for our annual company-wide costume contest. With 90+ employees, we are bound to have some interesting characters show up to work. Happy Halloween Eve! Every Halloween, Digitarians dress up for our annual company-wide costume contest. With 90+ employees, we are bound to have some...

A Summer Project That Shook Up Human-Computer Interaction

bobbyghoshal — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:23:34 +0000

Author: Erik Levitch Some days ago, I stumbled upon an ambitious summer project that tried to redefine the way we interact with computers. The project, entitled 10GUI, takes a hard look at the inherent limitations of the mouse and the windowed desktop while looking forward for a possible solution. We've all seen how touch-screen technology has transformed the way we interact with kiosks and mobile phones,...

How to Make the Perfect Aero Pressed Coffee at Work

bobbyghoshal — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:38:38 +0000

Author: Bobby Ghoshal Nick Zadrozny, our self confessed coffee-geek, shows us how to make the perfect cup of aero pressed coffee. You will need: A coffee grinder An aero press A micro filter A stirrer A coffee mug Hot water Coffee (important!) After doing the math it looks like I spend approximate $125.00/month on coffee by going to our local barista. Nick buys a pound of coffee for $15.00 and it...

What's In That Plastic Red Cup? The Do's & Don'ts of Using Social Media To Find Employment

jim.mcarthur — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:25:26 +0000

Author: Reena Leone Social Media is everywhere. It is on the tip of everyone’s tongue in one way or another. People tweeting this and Facebooking that. There are very few people who don’t have at least one account these days. But what was once used for fun and for connecting with friends can be used for business. And for those who are just finishing college, Social Media could be a good way to not...

Digitaria's Newest PM Is BFF With Jaws

bobbyghoshal — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 01:02:08 +0000

Author: Bobby Ghoshal Lauren Kerr, the newest addition to our PM team is a talented musician, world-class traveler, digital marketing expert and, in her spare time, she enjoys scuba diving with Great White sharks! Maybe she's the reason for all the recent Southern California sightings... Tags: Sharks ...

Are You Ready For the ULTRA Review?

bobbyghoshal — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:40:04 +0000

Author: Dan Huss There is an adage in marketing that if someone has a good experience with your brand they will tell a single person, but if someone has a bad experience with your brand they will tell 10 people. I have bad news marketers, those 10 people just turned into a million. Yesterday, Monday October 6, 2009 at 2:34 pm Pacific Standard Time, my...

Computed Columns in SQL with ActiveRecord and Rails

admin — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:04:03 +0000

Author: Dylan Vaughn Consider the following scenario. You have a blog application, which has users, who have many posts. Posts, in turn, have many comments. Comments must be approved by the post author, so therefore can be in one of the following states, 'pending', 'approved', or 'denied'. In the admin interface, you would like to display a paginated list of users, sorted by the number of...

Turn Your Marketing Into A Product, Not Just A Process

bobbyghoshal — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:58:34 +0000

Author: Dan Huss Marketing as we know it is changing. Typically marketing has been focused on the sole task of promoting a product, with whatever end goal the marketer had in mind (i.e. generating awareness). To do this, marketers began distributing their messages via different media channels. Soon however, marketers found that their own message was getting lost among their competitors’ messages....