Category: Business
Listen to your gut, or else
Posted April 16, 2010 by Gabriel Hurley
When you don't follow through on your instincts tell you it usually catches up with you, and quickly. This week was a prime example.
XFN Relationship Tags For Designers and Businesses
Posted June 11, 2009 by Gabriel Hurley
I've decided to start adding rel="designer" to the little "Designed by" links that go into sites I work on. That's right.
As the whole XFN movement continues to grow (slowly), I can't help but notice that there's no place in the spec for businesses. Identity is just as crucial for businesses as it is for ...
Google Wave announced at Google I/O 2009
Posted May 28, 2009 by Gabriel Hurley
At the keynote this morning, Google announced a brand new product that they're calling Wave which is flat out amazing.
Imagine combining gmail, chat, and docs and turning them into one all-encompassing real-time collaborative tool. Yeah, that's just the beginning.
Everyone invited to the Wave can edit simlutaneously without conflicts.
All the changes appear on everyone's screen ...
MySpace Friends or Facebook Fans for Bands and Artists
Posted April 13, 2009 by Gabriel Hurley
MySpace fans are meaningless, while Facebook fans represent real people ready to support you. Yet industry executives are still looking at MySpace to see who's popular.
Facebook and its core user base has always been about real identity. Fake profiles on Facebook are a minority and are only tolerated for the sake of either celebrity or humor. Bots are ...
Do I submit a Form W3 if I file online?
Posted Feb. 27, 2009 by Gabriel Hurley
If you file your business' W2's online with the SSA, do you need to file a separate form W3?
Electronic/Digital Signatures
Posted Jan. 5, 2009 by Gabriel Hurley
A brief summary of the legality of electronic signatures for ordinary people and small businesses from someone who is not a lawyer.
The new job hunting?
Posted Dec. 24, 2008 by Gabriel Hurley
In the next 31 days, I'm going to find a job by telling a story. The story I'm going to tell is about me finding a job by creating a website about me finding a job and leveraging the power of social networks and communication. And I'm going to do all that in a time when the economy is collapsing and most people would be thankful just to be employed at all.
New California Revels Website Is Live!
Posted Dec. 10, 2008 by Gabriel Hurley
With limited fanfare, I'm very happy to say that the new website for the California Revels has gone live in a "soft launch" side-by-side with their existing site!
Take a look at the new California Revels website.
Come see the show this year! And tell your friends and family! And write reviews for the show online. Your word of ...
Docuwebisode Website Launch
Posted Oct. 29, 2008 by Gabriel Hurley
One of Zero Coordinate's recent web design projects is now live online.
"Where Are You Online?" is an online docuwebisode project exploring the shift from "entertainment" to "intertainment", and all that it entails.
For those of you that aren't in the know, a docuwebisode is a documentary-web-episode. The Where Are You Online series is exploring the change in ...
Hurricane Video From Speak The Music
Posted Sept. 12, 2008 by Gabriel Hurley
Natalie performed her song Hurricane live at the last Speak The Music with a little help from Constant Change, Syzygy, and Monkstilo. It was a good performance, and I shot some basic video footage of it. I uploaded it to the ZeroCoordinate YouTube account, and you can check it out here:
On a related technical note, getting video to come ...
Cheap, Working Google Checkout SSl Certificate
Posted Aug. 29, 2008 by Gabriel Hurley
First, the solution: $9.99 Comodo SSL Certificate from NameCheap.com
(Leave me a comment if this helps you! Thanks!)
http://www.namecheap.com/learn/other-services/cheap-comodo-ssl-certificates.asp
Second, the explanation:
I'm a big fan of Google, and their Google Checkout system is a pretty great service as far as online payment systems/merchant accounts go... but their documentation ...
Learning about taxes (CA FTB 100-ES)
Posted Aug. 14, 2008 by Gabriel Hurley
Taking care of the financial business for Zero Coordinate is easily the most difficult part of the job, I have to say. The decentralized, poorly organized, hard-to-find information regarding taxes, tax payments, and exactly how to go about it all just doesn't cut it more often than not. It's easy to see why the preferred method is to ...