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What do you get when you gather a bunch of creative types -- animators, web developers, writers, graphic designers, producers -- under the same roof? You get the HuB -- a 40,000 square foot creative office space on Fruitville Road, designed to ensure interaction between its myriad entrepreneurs -- and Blink;Tech has moved in!

The HuB's space does more than house businesses; it acts as an incubator for creative thinking with its sunlit rooms, polished cement floors, leather couches and café tables in the ample common areas, brightly painted offices, and artwork by local artists hanging on the walls. Right now,... Read more »

When Google unveiled its new search algorithm on Sept. 26, to tell truth, most people didn't notice. In fact, most people had no idea it had already been in operation for about a month. We went about our daily lives. No catastrophic events. No noticeable changes to the way we search for information. The verb "to google" is part of our cultural lexicon, after all.

Techies use terms like "algorithms," "predictive intelligence," and "knowledge webs" to describe what Google is up to, but according to Read more »

If you live on planet earth, we don't need to tell you that computers are no longer relegated to stuffy office spaces, or even to laptops -- those miracle inventions that gave us the freedom to do our work in Starbucks. No, today you've got tablets and smart phones, kids watching YouTube on the school bus, beachgoers reading the news under giant umbrellas.

Consumer habits are changing, and so is web design. Until very recently, if you wanted to hire a company to build your website, you'd need them to create several different versions of your site in order to "fit" it on all those new devices. Actually, many companies still... Read more »

In the days when print media was king, marketing was a glorified guessing game. Businesses jockeyed for the most visible ad space within their means, then assumed the position of sitting back and waiting for new customers to roll in.

That's not a comfortable position for a business owner to be in. Well, you might not lose much sleep if you're a gambling man. But the savvy entrepreneur wants to know how every dollar spent makes its way back home, hopefully with an entourage. This could explain how the "Mention this ad and get a 5% discount/triple scoop/free puppy!" strategy became popular. How else would you know if you were... Read more »