• Around the Office: accountable apps, SEO mistakes, fun design, more

    Around the Office is a weekly group blog that shows what the OnlineFriendly.biz team and Kobayashi Online have found interesting, funny, poignant, or otherwise notable over the past week. Daveed is interested in a regulationproposed in California requiring mobile application developers to explain what personal information will be recorded and how it will be used. According to reports, applications…

  • Around the Office: Interactive Charts, Bent Photos, Lost Reviews, more

    Around the Office is a weekly group blog that shows what the OnlineFriendly.biz team and Kobayashi Online have found interesting, funny, poignant, or otherwise notable over the past week. Looking to show some compelling data? Daveed recommends using the JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit to not only set people see charts and figures as visualizations, but also to interact with them.…

  • Around the Office: online piracy, video marketing, great site design, more

    Around the Office is a weekly group blog that shows what the OnlineFriendly.biz team and Kobayashi Online have found interesting, funny, poignant, or otherwise notable over the past week. This was a busy week at Online Friendly since Kobayashi Online moved on Monday to its new location at 1200 Eglinton Ave. in Toronto. KO will now be…

  • 7 Tips for Online Friendly Video Marketing

    As people spend more time online, the adage that every company is a media company is more true than ever. Simply put, creating media surrounding your business helps create interest and attention, which is good for business. We see this with corporate magazines, social media updates, blog posts, and late-night infomercials. Video, while often ignored by companies,…

  • Design Focus: Fontsmith

    Design Focus is a regular Online Friendly feature that examines well-designed sites to show how Web designers have overcome some of the challenges of their profession. UK type design firm Fontsmith caught our attention with their calalog of creative fonts. In this Design Focus, we take a look at their website, and see if they put as much…

  • Around the Office: Kobayashi Online moves, email marketing lingo, and more

    Around the Office is a weekly group blog that shows what the OnlineFriendly.biz team and Kobayashi Online have found interesting, funny, poignant, or otherwise notable over the past week. If you haven’t heard yet, Kobayashi Online is moving to its new Toronto location at1200 Eglinton Ave. East, Suite 801. Everyone has been busy packing and getting organized…

  • Kobayashi Online has moved!

    After many great years at 2243A Danforth Ave, Kobayahsi Online is moving to 1200 Eglinton Ave. East, Suite 801, Toronto as of February 6, 2012. We think the move will help inspire us and our clients to innovate, explore and look ahead. Plus, Kobayashi Online will now be under the same roof as Finesilver Design. As the online world evolves, consumer…

  • Around the Office: New WP Plugins, Google to Up Tracking, Ideas from Dx3

    Around the Office is a weekly group blog that shows what the OnlineFriendly.biz team and Kobayashi Online have found interesting, funny, poignant, or otherwise notable over the past week. A lot can happen in five months! Roberto is interested in testing out at least some of the 35 most interesting and useful WordPress plugins released…

  • Marketing on the Move: Exploring Your Company’s Mobile Marketing Options

    Signs and billboards often vie for our attention while we’re out and about. These can be thought of as predecessors of mobile marketing. As our glances turn towards our own smart phones and tablets, these devices have become a natural destination for advertising and engagement. Mobile marketing is marketing that engages people where they are,…

  • Around the Office: Fontsmith at 10, an HTML5 Doodle, Eyeing Social Media, more

    Around the Office is a weekly group blog that shows what the OnlineFriendly.biz team and Kobayashi Online have found interesting, funny, poignant, or otherwise notable over the past week. Eva is impressed with the minimal and clean site Fontsmith created to celebrate its 10 years creating custom fonts. In addition to the great website, Fontsmith…

  • Shopping’s Better When Sharing: 5 Ways to Make E-commerce Social

    Our innate desire to socialize has helped make the Internet a platform where people share information and their life experiences. The social nature of the Internet is something that institutions like governments, universities and businesses, cannot ignore. Having been a by-product of this network revolution, e-commerce businesses have much to gain from taking a decidedly…

  • Around the Office: Better Page Titles, Backing It Up, Landing Pages, more

    Around the Office is a weekly group blog that shows what the OnlineFriendly.biz team and Kobayashi Online have found interesting, funny, poignant, or otherwise notable over the past week. This week at Online Friendly, Roberto reminded us that search results can often boil down to writing better page titles — the world’s top search engine…