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Lunchroom Banter (Volume XX)

Wednesday, March 10, 2010Patrick: ...mmm, lunch from Abe's Dave: You know, Abe's was named after Abe Vigoda. Patrick: Really? Dave: No. Patrick: That's the second time I've fallen for that. Dave: Really? Patrick: No. Bill: This sounds like Lunchroom Banter®

iMarcians with staying power

Friday, March 5, 2010 – This week marks three iMarc anniversaries!The lovely and talented Kim Jackson turned 8, making her one of iMarc's most senior staff! Without Kim, we'd collapse within a month. Nobody tell her, okay?Jeff Turcotte, Senior Developer and kicker of difficult integration butt, turned 4, and shows no signs of making any fewer crazy drawings around the office. Patrick McPhail also turned 4, and has completed his transformation into Project Manager.…

Mobile browsers: Here's the data

Wednesday, February 17, 2010 – Unless you've been living under a rock, you probably know that “smart phones“ are kind of a big deal. I've seen lots of stats thrown around, but I've never been able to fully trust Neilsen net ratings. I like to look at the data on my own. So I dove into Google Analytics and created a mobile browser segment designed to look for smart phone web browsers, and looked at the 3 month period ending Februrary 16th. There were 586 mobile visits in that…

iMarc welcomes Katie Desmond to the team

Wednesday, February 17, 2010 – I'm excited to welcome our newest team member, Katie Desmond. Katie's title is Business Development Specialist, and in iMarc-speak, this means that she will help us with marketing and business development, web strategy, project planning, and more. Katie brings some tremendous skills and experience to her role, having produced many web projects over a 10-year-plus span, at Boston's Mullen Advertising, The Timberland Company, of…

Never Pick A Stone Up Twice

Tuesday, February 2, 2010 – Flipping through the book Lost Crafts, I came upon this gem. Advice when building a dry stone wall… A skilled waller will never pick a stone up twice; in other words, they won't waste time picking up lots of different stones, then discarding them, but will choose a stone and use it.

10 years and a Les Paul

Tuesday, January 19, 2010 – Today is Nick's 10-year anniversary at iMarc. His partners threw him a little wine and cheese party, then surprised him with a gift — One of Gibson's Les Paul '57 reproductions, goldtop. Check out Nick's photo and commentary. And here's Nick testing out his new baby for us all:

The Scientific Method

Tuesday, January 5, 2010 – While we were building out the new iMarc website, a colleague and I had a vehement disagreement over link behavior. There is a link to the Newburyport Chamber of Commerce on the about page, and my esteemed colleague Karin wanted it to open in a new window — because when she opens a link leading off any site, she wants a new window to preseve her old one. I argued that this would be user-unfriendly because it changed the state of the…—

New Year, New Website

Monday, January 4, 2010 – For the past 975 days our website looked the same.  Some of the content changed. Some of the graphics changed. But basically the design template that launched in May, 2007 was still employed in December, 2009. That design held up well for two and half years. However, since we're a web design company, we should eventually redesign our own website, right? Not really. A full-blown, big-splash redesign is rarely the ideal solution.…

iMarc: The Video Game

Wednesday, November 18, 2009 – Last night, we attended the MITX Interactive Awards ceremony. Two of our clients were in the running as finalists — North Shore Association of REALTORS® and Ounce Labs. We lost out to some bigger competition (it happens — little David doesn't always win!) but were happy to be in such good company. But more to the point ... the ceremony featured iMarc: The Video Game 2009 MITX Movie - Video Game from iMarc LLC on

Welcome Matt

Friday, November 13, 2009 – It seems like we've been making hiring announcements quite frequently, yet here we are again. This time we welcome PHP developer, Matt Sahagian to the team. Matt is a true jack-of-all trades with a core focus on programming, open source, and PHP. Matt's a unique breed whose resume combines phrases like C-based GUI Toolkit, CSS 2, Computer Repair, Web Design, Object Oriented PHP, AJAX, and Postfix. Over the next couple months…

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  • Lunchroom Banter (Volume XX)

    Nick commented: Since Bill didn't do it, I will. "Oh snap!"

  • iMarcians with staying power

    Nick commented: Congratulations on the anniversaries. I had a professor tell me early on at the Art Institute that "you can expect to change web jobs every 2-3 years until you settle somewhere". I love proving this guy wrong every day. Congrats again.

  • Twitter, Alone, Is Not Customer Service

    Jay G commented: Same here, and my story is with Alaska Air, too. Their website said the customer service phone number was open something like 8am-8pm PST, but this was after hours, so I tweeted. Lo, and behold, I got a tweet response in 10 minutes with the 24/7 phone number. But this didn't change the confusion from their website…

  • Mobile browsers: Here's the data

    Robert Mohns commented: The data comes from visitors to iMarc.net — an important detail I forgot to include! — not the web as a whole. As for why so little Flash on mobile devices… I'd say this is because even Flash Lite is pretty resource intensive, and it's just not essential to the core content most people need to access. I don't think it has a lot to do…

  • Mobile browsers: Here's the data

    Jason Cronkhite commented: Robert, The data on Flash is interesting. What is your source? I am interested because of my interest in a live streaming company. Further, I'm curious why this is the case for Flash. Is there any merit to HTML5 that Jobs argues? Do you think this has anything to do with mobile network capacity for streaming…

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