My company’s mission includes giving back to community organizations.  This year we helped publish a children’s book Ichabod & Lilly for a senior citizen in Las Vegas. Last year we began giving to Kiva an international micro-loan organization helping individuals launch and sustain small businesses around the world. We are currently sponsoring a Peruvian internet cafe, which provides access to the Internet for the community. As a strong proponents of open source software, we have provided funding for some of the projects that we use on a regular basis, knowing our success is built on their efforts. We are looking forward to a strong 2009, where we will have the ability to give back even more both financially and in pro-bono services.

Yesterday I went to a Philadelphia entrepreneurs event where I met some people who have developed online web applications. Here are a few interesting ones.


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We enjoyed a wonderful meal this evening with friends. The hosts supplied the main course and we brought drinks and deserts. In essence we built a wonderful meal based on the core product of the hosts. We had a wonderful time, enjoyed everyone’s company and no-one including the hosts spent a mint. Businesses are and should be looking for similar opportunities.
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No matter how many great applications there are out there, there will always be apps that would not be practical or serve no other purpose except to laugh your butt off. The idea to do a post on this topic came to me after realizing the hassle of managing two joint banking accounts for up to six weeks whether we used our new bank’s switch service or we faxed the necessary information directly to the respective vendors notifying them of the change of banks ourselves. Life should get less stressful with technology, right?
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Today Wordpress announced they are using Sphinx to help developers find plugins faster on their site. Sphnix is an open source search engine for indexing primarily databases and is much faster than the standard full text search feature of most databases. I’ve put together a brief tutorial to help you get started with this application.
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Web Applications are used for many different things, but in today’s economy I’m hearing of more cases where people are creating or using web applications to keep people honest. More so than ever we want to keep accountable so that we aren’t paying more than we should for services.
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Happy Valentine’s Day! Have you ever wanted to center content on a page both horizontally and vertically? This simple html, css, and javascript template will enable you to do just that.
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