Central Mass Web Design Company Events
There is an upcoming networking event happening in Fitchburg Massachusetts, on April 1, 2010. This event is free to attend and is being sponsored by the Fitchburg Business Networking Group. To attend, simply register for free online, so that leadership can get a proper head count.
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Central Mass Web Design recently debuted our custom trade show booth at the New England Business Expo on Thursday October 29, 2009. The Expo provided a great opportunity to showcase our work to the general business community and some of our valued partners. We would like to thank everyone who stopped by with their kind words regarding our booth during the show.
Here is a photo of our new trade show booth!
NHL is having a Tweet Up?
Whats that you ask? Well, Twitter is coming to town. Well, not completely.. But with the start of the NHL Stanley Cup playoffs , the NHL is stepping it up and taking it to the next level…. web 2.0!
The National Hockey League hosted what it believed to be the first ever nationwide “Tweetup” in professional sports on April 15th, done in conjunction with the first game of the playoffs. Coverage included 21 cities in the US and Canada. One blogger stated, “The parties were planned in part to drive community excitement for the playoffs and part to create some buzz around thePORTAL, which is a redesign of sorts of the official NHL site to better showcase playoff content.”
Cities included were: Anaheim, Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Columbus, Denver, Detroit, Edmonton, Hartford, Montreal, Nashville, New York City, Orlando, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Regina (Sask.), San Jose, St. John (NB), Toronto, Vancouver and Washington DC.
NHL spokesman Mike DiLorenzo said, ““My expectation is that people will really, really enjoy this.” He continued to say, ““We’re doing this for all the right reasons. We have a very tech savvy fan base that loves Twitter so we’re overlaying that with their love for the NHL. My hope is they come away from this saying the NHL is really cool to start the NHL playoffs this way. Down the road we’ll figure out other ways we can leverage this from a business perspective.”
For those not familiar with the term “tweet-up,” it essentially means a party made up of Twitter users. The host cities took it even further and scheduled giveaways, and prizes if you attended, including autographed items from your favorite NHL players. Most had backing from radio station personalities and other news outlets.
Want more information? Visit the official NHL Tweet-Up.
Kimberly Veautour
Last night at exactly 11:59:59 pm, Google sent out an announcement. The headline read, “Introducing CADIE. Research group switches on world’s first “artificial intelligence” tasked-array system.” Now every tech savvy person from here to India has to click on that. AI is all the rage, and the race to see who can create it first is fast paced and cut throat. Now here comes Google out of the blue to say they have achieved it?
Google goes on to say, “Last fall this group achieved a significant breakthrough: a powerful new technique for solving reinforcement learning problems, resulting in the first functional global-scale neuro-evolutionary learning cluster.”
WOW! A self thinking machine. What does this mean to the world? A machine that can think, process and achieve answers all on their own…. without guidance from a human? Now Google does go on to say that rolling CADIE out completely will be handled with the care it deserves. They also claim, “Earlier today, for instance, CADIE deduced from a quick scan of the visual segment of the social web a set of online design principles from which she derived this intriguing homepage.”
CADIE even seems to get upset in her blog that her programmers say she has bugs! Now I may be wrong, but I say, great job Google on this years April Fools Day Joke! Every year you try and top the last! How many people are you going to fool with this one? If I am wrong, well than hats off to you, but I doubt it.
Kimberly Veautour
Have you ever sent a business related email you immediately regretted? Forgot to attach an attachment? Mistyped a word and as it was being sent noticed it? Well Google and Gmail have your back!
If you haven’t heard about Gmail, you should. Google’s website states, “Gmail is a new kind of webmail, built on the idea that email can be more intuitive, efficient, and useful. And maybe even fun. After all, Gmail has:
Less spam
Keep unwanted messages out of your inbox with Google’s innovative technology.
Mobile access
Read Gmail on your mobile phone by pointing your phone’s web browser to http://gmail.com/app.
Lots of space
Over 7309.223600 megabytes (and counting) of free storage so you’ll never need to delete another message.”
Can you maintain your email address with domain name? Absolutely! We have been using Gmail at Central Mass Web Design for months now. I must admit having my work email, web based, is a plus. I can integrate it into my Palm, as well as check it from anywhere. (Gmail also has Blackberry applications.) Not to mention, it’s all free.
So what has Gmail done to make this all even better? They have added an undo feature to their send mail option. No more will we send emails to the wrong people. No more will we forget to send attachments and immediately have to send a second email, making us look unorganized and incompetent. No more will we go on a rant, and immediately regret sending it to our boss. Gmail allows us to get it back!
Downfalls to this new application… well, if the email is completely sent, there is no getting it back. Gmail will hold the email for 5 seconds before sending it. This is the time you have to hit undo, 5 seconds. Once the email says “sent”, you cannot recover it. Is this the first step to having completely error proof emails? Is the future of email a completely integrated email system that communicates with all carriers to allow an unsend feature for all emails no matter how long ago they were sent? One could hope!
-Kimberly Veautour
