Addictomatic is sporting a shiny new suit today. The overall look has been updated with a great new design from Bryan Bell, and a number of little features have been added and minor tweaks made since the initial launch. I’ve got a few more screenshots here, but it’s a lot more fun to just go…
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PhoneFactor is a WordPress plugin that provides an additional layer of security when logging in to your WordPress site. It’s a pretty cool system. When you log in to your WordPress blog with PhoneFactor enabled, you receive a phone call asking you to press # to authorize. When you do so, you are logged in.…
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Last fall Crowd Favorite had the opportunity to work with OpenedHand1 to redesign their web site. Their site is powered by WordPress and we did the design and created some custom theme features for them. This was a fairly straightforward build. We created several different designs, went through a few revisions, detailed the custom features…
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We’re looking for a good couple of talented individuals to join us at Crowd Favorite. In particular we’re looking for: Web Developers – someone with good back-end skills, experience building modern web applications (AJAX, etc.), knowledge of scalability best practices, etc. Should have good knowledge of PHP, SQL, JavaScript, etc. Designers – should be comfortable…
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I’ll be joining Josh Pigford as a presenter at the next Refresh Denver meeting this coming Wednesday. I’ll be talking about Addictomatic, which we had the opportunity to build earlier this year. Leave a comment and let me know what you’d like to hear in the presentation. The last Refresh Denver meeting was the first…
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Over the last few months, Crowd Favorite has had the privilege of working with Dave Pell to create a new search service: Addictomatic Addictomatic is a search aggregator, a way to see results from lots of sources all at once. Want to see the latest on a presidential candidate? Or the newest iPhone rumors? Or…
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As you’ve no doubt heard already, Google released Google App Engine at the Google Campfire One event last night. Folks, this is a real game changer. Scalability has been the final frontier for web applications for far too long. For web developers like myself, the “building the app” part of offering a web service is…
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We’ve had our first turnover at Crowd Favorite. Mike Hostetler has decided to go solo so he can spend more time working at home with his new baby daughter. Mike’s going to be focusing on Drupal, Qcodo and jQuery, I thank him for the work he did with us and wish him success with his…
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Right now Crowd Favorite is looking for another great web developer. We need someone with solid front-end XHTML/CSS/JS skills and good back-end PHP skills – preferably someone already here in the Denver metro area, but if you’re willing to move here that’s OK too. We are doing all sorts of cool stuff with WordPress, and…
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Last fall, Crowd Favorite had the opportunity to build a WordPress plugin for VodPod. This was a fun project. We used the VodPod API and built some shortcodes and template tags for WordPress that make it easy to put a VodPod video player into a WordPress post, page or theme. The VodPod team then combined…
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Today was our first day in the new office. Over the weekend we assembled desks and chairs, unpacked new monitors phones and hard drives, and set up the fridge and coffee maker; so today we were pretty much ready to hit the ground running. We had a number of things scheduled: DSL installation Bottled water…
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Crowd Favorite now has it’s own office space! This is how it looks empty, I imagine it’ll look quite different after we start moving in this weekend. Lots of gear and furniture to set up. We’ve got some work to do before it will feel like home, but it’s great to have somewhere to really…
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When King Design became Crowd Favorite last year, I employed a couple of techniques to try to make the web site transition as painless as possible. Now if you visit kingdesign.net the Crowd Favorite site design is shown; with a small banner noting the rename being shown at the top of the page on the…
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I’m very excited to announce that Crowd Favorite has grown once again, this time bringing on a developer who needs no introduction to most people in the WordPress world: Dougal Campbell. Dougal has made numerous contributions to the WordPress community, from core code contributions and plugins to Ping-O-Matic. Like me, he’s got years of experience…
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Over the last couple of weeks we at Crowd Favorite have had the pleasure of working with the good folks at TechCrunch to help get the new CrunchGear site design up and running (read about it on CrunchGear and TechCrunch). The designers at ACS did the majority of the new design work1, then we helped…