Category: Business
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 ...
Information graphic design and the limits of what we have now
Posted Aug. 8, 2008 by Gabriel Hurley
In an ironic twist, while writing up my entry about User Interface Design, one of my business partners was watching a video promo by Jeff Howe for his book Crowdsourcing (view the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0-UtNg3ots ). What struck me as he's talking about the internet enabling "the crowd" to do all the tasks that ...
The importance of user experience
Posted July 17, 2008 by Gabriel Hurley
Out of sheer folly (and the necessity of getting a new phone after mine died of old age and natural causes), I braved the hellish lines of the Apple Store last weekend to be one of the million people that now own the new 3G iPhone.
Now, I'll say this: standing in line for more than 4 hours, knowing ...