Yellowseed Web Design Services

I can confidently say reading blogs has made me a better person. The collection of blogs that I have organized in my Google Reader have become my "ideal newspaper": tree-friendly, inspirational and educational.

Looking for a way to add more cool to your website, poster - or even your walls? I have recently discovered Kuler, an interactive website that allows you to create and view colour schemes to enliven and brighten up your business.

Yellowseed has completed development on Pulpwatch.org for the Environmental Paper Network in partnership with the Borealis Centre for Environment and Trade Research. The website provides up-to-date information on the international pulp and paper industry drawing from a database of the world's pulp mills presented in interactive maps and tables giving the visitor an instant picture of environmental status and social responsibility.

"Hi, my name is MrCucumber69, I have a gray blob for a face and that's all I care to share about myself - will you be my friend?" Silly as that sounds, this is the way users of many social web applications greet each other. It's not very useful or inspiring. Communication works better when you have a good idea who it is you're talking to. How can new online services get users to describe themselves, though? See full article here.

In Canada sunny Sundays are when we head out for some climbing or lake swimming. Here in South India, sunny Sundays are about eating Birhyani and hiding in the shade. The 35 C+ afternoon heat is an energy drain. To stay cool on this blistering Sunday, we’ve taken our positions in front of our respective computers - Rik squashing bugs, Natalka getting Sugared and myself - bouncing between booking a room in Bangkok and learning more about the Golden Temple. The past three weeks have been rich. We’ve set up our office, hired 2 new programmers, taken 2 road-trips and joined in the full-moon walk (14km) around the mountain.

Preserved Seed

A seed found in Jerusalem has sprouted and grown into a 3-foot tall Jerusalem palm. What’s so special about that? Carbon dating has found that the seed is 2000 years old, which makes it the oldest seed ever to germinate. Previously, a lotus seed from China held the title, at a measly 1300 years old, but grew with serious genetic abnormalities.

The Basics

• Wash your hands first, you will only be using your right one (your left is for your bum)
• Next, clean your leaf using a little bit of water (Large green leaves are used instead of plates)
• Having a handkerchief is handy - in case you need to blow your nose, or dry your washed hand

Namaste, greetings from India!  This is the first installment in a series of blogs that follows the Yellowseed team as we set up a web-development office in South India. Over the next four weeks I’ll share info about traveling in India, hiring Indian programmers, setting up a office and nurturing an effective and happy team. More has happened here in the last three days than a month in our home-town of Nelson, BC. While I have a plan for this series - being in India has taught me that plans (like traffic rules) are arbitrary. Sometimes it’s best to go with the flow!

Inspired by the famous quote from Gandhi about being the change you want to see in the world, we've launched the BeChange Package. This is a bundle of services designed for individuals and small businesses creating positive change. Our current focus is to support coaches and teachers in the health and wellness industry but we'll soon be expanding it to include other social entrepreneurs. The BeChange services include managed marketing and logistics backed by an integrated website and CRM system.

Nelson radio station CJLY, 93.5FM in Nelson BC launched a new website today. The new site a sweeping upgrade for the station with sections for each show, a member forum, downloaded files, news, comments and more. In addition to creating the site, Yellowseed created a podcasting system for the station that currently delivers weekly shows through iTunes to the world.

We're pleased to introduce Yellowseed's lead programmer (and newest staff member) Balakrishnan Somasundaram.

Simple question: if you had 2-hours a day to devote to no-cost, off-blog (even off-line) marketing for your blog, what would you do� The author posed this question to a collection of some of the world's top bloggers and social network marketers and here's what they revealed. Click here for the article.

Centennial Canoe Outfitters Inc. take viewers on a scenic ride down the wild rivers of Colorado in a new video released today on You Tube.

Marty Generaux and Julia Gumper, owners, shot the video over a whole summer and sent it to Yellowseed for compilation and upload.  The canoeing video will also be displayed at http://www.centennialcanoe.com.

Proposed model for the future of e-commerce exploits a novel peer-to-peer video sharing application

We launched NCES.ca today, a website for a local non-profit group (NCES = Nelson Citizen Empowerment Society).

Facebook has just released an API that gives company the ability to develop software (called "Widgets") that can be used within Facebook - think of Facebook like an operating system, say Windows, and widgets like software that runs on the OS, say Adobe Photoshop.

DoubleClick, an online advertising company founded in 1996, provides display ads on Web sites like MySpace, The Wall Street Journal and America Online as well as software to help those sites maximize ad revenue. The company also helps ad buyers — advertisers and ad agencies — manage and measure the effectiveness of their rich media, search and other online ads.

Here's a good glossary of SEO terms used by search engine marketing professionals.

Social Media Optimization (SMO), a new term recently coined by Rohit Bhargava, has since been taking on life of its own. In his introduction to SMO, Rohit draws similar comparisons to SEO...

The choice quotes:

Google controls more network fiber than any other organization. This is not to say that Google OWNS all that fiber, just that they control it through agreements with network operators.