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If you look up this weekend and see a red balloon, the 80s are not coming back. DARPA is staging a social experiment to celebrate the anniversary of the internet and offering $40K to boot. Facebook groups and Twitter accounts have sprung up, as about 1,500 teams organize their efforts. (Expected 2,000 by the launch on Sat) DARPA will launch ten balloons across the country on Saturday December 5. Teams will have until the 14th to find all the balloons. DARPA has spread the distribution so n…
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We all talk about keywords and they are a good metric on the visibility of a website. Still, Google doesn’t even look at the keywords meta tag. However, description meta tags are used by the search engines to deliver information about your website. They want searchers to find the information they’re looking for as quickly as possible. Google and the other search engines can pull information from within your website or content given by a third party, but you are the best source. Tell the searc…
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This week when someone mentions caffeine they’re not talking about the amount of coffee they’ve had today. Google’s Matt Cutts has been keeping us abreast of the latest Google update. Caffeine, which went live with one data center this week, is an overhaul of the infrastructure. The rollout is only one center until after the holidays so webmasters won’t pull out the pitch forks. This is a major update to the background workings of Google search. The aim is to index more sites faster while aff…
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Abstract Company Chooses ACS for Internal Order Management Database
A reputable abstract service company was looking to have a custom web application built to increase efficiency in searching current and past orders, as well as, reduce the amount of paperwork needed in house. ACS provided a web application that runs on their internal server. The web application worked effectively not only because with the technology that can be run through a browser environment is becoming more advanced everyday, this strategy also reduces the cost of licensing and having to ha…
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Intranet Application Built by ACS Adapts Better Culture for Food Distributor Company G&C Foods
This fast growing food distributor company needed a solution to more efficiently communicate between all the employees with company news, reports, training information and human resource information. By providing a user-friendly design and a content management system to allow each supervisor to manage their own area the project became a success. Not only has the intranet provided a streamline of information for all the employees, but has provided a more friendly culture within the company. Lear…