We are inundated with a number of sites offering the best deals on all kinds of products, services and experiences. How sustainable are these business models? Are daily deals “To Be Or Not to Be?” That is the question.

A hot item of discussion (or maybe debate) when we present website design comps to a client, is the desire from many clients to keep most — if not all — information above the fold.
What is the fold?
The fold is used to describe the upper half of a website — the content users see without [...]

That’s right, it’s all about location nowadays but hasn’t it always been? The rapid rise of proximity-based marketing or location-based marketing (take your pick) is validating the old axiom of location, location, location.

Do you hear that buzz?! It’s not a bird…no! It’s not a plane, no, NO, it’s GOOGLE!!!!  That’s right Google does it again, this time with their latest product launch Google Buzz. Giving us all yet ANOTHER way to share with our networks online, this tool is rumored to potentially threaten Facebook and Twitter as [...]

Cuddled up in my Snuggie™ blanket over the weekend, I flipped the pages of my February 2010 issue of Elle Magazine and came across a survey about iPhone users that consumer electronics specialists, Retrevo, conducted called the Gadgetology report.  This online survey featured in the Modern Love section of the magazine, consisted of 445 iPhone [...]

Last Tuesday, January 12th the catastrophic 7.0 earthquake hit Port-Au-Prince, Haiti.  Once I had heard the news of the massive destruction, I immediately hopped onto my Twitter account @carolynruiz and searched for Haiti using Twitter Search .  I did this because I wanted to see the real-time news transpiring and how I could contribute to [...]

Last Sunday my parents were leaving after visiting me and my family. They were heading back to Switzerland after a 3 months stay in california due to our 3 month old addition to the family, my proud little baby girl, Kirra.
After I read that Switzerland, and the rest of Europe were getting hit by one [...]

Microsoft primarily blames the increasing sales of netbooks for their OEM revenue drop today in their SEC 10-Q filing. It’s a fact that global computer sales are down for the fourth quarter but netbooks have gained a significant market share and its sales growth is better than traditional notebooks. And in light of the current [...]

As you’ve probably gathered by now from reading some of the other postings here , we have a lot of iPhone addicts here at Rhythm.  So, when getting our new website together it only made sense that we would make sure that the customer experience of browsing the site would carry over to the iPhone [...]

I admit it, I’m an addict, an iPhone addict. I can’t seem to put the device down for long periods without going into withdrawals. I can’t stop talking or writing about it either. Even though some staff members may make fun of me (Rita!) I can’t help but tap away at this wonderful device.