Around the Office is a weekly group blog that shows what the Kobayashi Online team has found interesting, funny, poignant, or otherwise notable over the past week. Brent thinks that a new dance game included in a new Kinect title could be a step up for the Star Wars franchise. Kinect Star Wars uses the Xbox Kinnect’s motion sensor to let players feel fully immersed in lightsabre battle, but also compete in a dance-off where Princess Leia and others are enslaved by…
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Around the Office: Adobe CS6 Beta, AdSense Second Thoughts, More
Around the Office is a weekly group blog that shows what the Kobayashi Online team has found interesting, funny, poignant, or otherwise notable over the past week. Our resident Adobe Photoshop artist, Eva, is excited about the new features to be included in Adobe Creative Suite 6. In addition to its new white-on-gray interface, CS6 features some clever tools such as an adaptive wide angle filter that helps fix problems with perspective and wide-angle lens distortion, and GPU-accelerated image processing. A CS6…
Around the Office: A Trip to Jingjiang, Google Says “No” to Black Hat SEO, Yoast Shares Knowledge, More
Around the Office is a weekly group blog that shows what the Kobayashi Online team has found interesting, funny, poignant, or otherwise notable over the past week. Eva shared a video of her hometown, Jingjiang, located on the banks of China’s Yangtze River. The video shows some of the town’s epicurean attractions including steamed soup dumplings, fresh crab meat, and pig skin and chicken soup. It also provides a glimpse into daily life in Jingjiang, which we’d all like to…
Around the Office: jQuery Selectors, Email Blasts, and Retro Web Design
Around the Office is a weekly group blog that shows what the Kobayashi Online team has found interesting, funny, poignant, or otherwise notable over the past week. Setting up your own selectors is extremely easy with jQuery, as Daveed was reminded this week thanks to a post outlining 12 awesome examples of jQuery selector extensions. Selectors serve the important role of matching a set of elements in a document. And while building custom selectors beyond the ones included in jQuery…
Around the Office: Next Nature, pea.rs, and CSS Wizardry
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 optimistic that technology and nature don’t have to be in opposition. Next Nature is a website that seeks to explore how we can design, build and live in a nature caused by people. The philosophy behind it can be summarised by an innovative take on a classic Arthur C.…
Timelines Are Coming to Facebook Pages This Month: Are You Ready?
All Facebook Pages, including your company’s, will be updated with the new Facebook Timeline layout by the end of March. An update may be needed to make sure your Page looks and performs correctly. The Facebook Timeline is an extension of the original Facebook layout that offers new features and a new look, but could also change your Facebook Page unexpectedly. For more on Facebook Timeline, visit Facebook’s information page. Individuals have had access to Timeline for months on their personal…
Around the Office: Winning Facebook pages, elegant Web 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. Roberto knows what it takes to create a winning Facebook Page, and it’s because of this that he recommends seven winning Facebook Page strategies for companies. Some of the best Facebook Pages techniques include having unique design, interesting content, interactive applications, re-posts of useful information, and regular activity.Check out the post for more ideas to make compelling Facebook Pages. Brent was a…
Design Focus: Blind Barber
“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. Blind Barber Blind Barber is a high-end barber shop with a location in New York and one opening in LA. We think their site does a good job of communicating a business’ culture and values through very tasteful design and atmosphere, as well as a sense of fun. In this Design Focus post, we…
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 on Apple, Android, Blackberry, Windows, HP and Amazon stores must present users with an app privacy policy, and reports on data use. This will help…
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. Sure, it takes a little extra work than a typical pie chart, but the InfoVis Toolkit makes a huge impact. The White House even used…