http://www.azul7.com/blog Online marketing, creative, digital strategy, search marketing, and web analytics news and commentary. Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:33:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Azul 7 has been recognized by the Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal as one of the Twin Cities' Best Places to Work. The award was given based on responses to a confidential survey by Azul 7 employees. "We're a young, quickly growing company with all the joys and tribulations that growth brings," ... http://www.azul7.com/blog/news/azul-7-named-one-of-twin-cities-best-places-to-work Many moons ago I found myself walking down a narrow, crowded street in Brussels. Brussels is a vast city full of mixed cultures stemming from the Dutch, Belgian and, of course, the French. We all know what they say about the French. I was a youngster at the time, about 19 ... http://www.azul7.com/blog/advertising/a-censored-look-at-censorship Azul 7 is a sponsor of the St. Paul Area Chamber of Commerce's 21st Annual Golf Classic on Monday, August 18 at North Oaks Country Club. As a sponsor, Azul 7 representatives will be available at Hole # 7 to cheer on participants and provide information about Azul 7. Golfers who ... http://www.azul7.com/blog/news/events/azul-7-sponsors-hole-7-at-chamber%e2%80%99s-21st-annual-golf-classic Being a designer is a full time job – and by full time job I mean 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. One's inner designer can never be turned off, no matter how heroic the attempt to ignore it. Each and every thing - from the Chinese take ... http://www.azul7.com/blog/design/ice-cream-and-patterns Seems that we're not the only ones to take issue with Cuil. Eric Chabrow, a writer for CIO Insight, says the same thing. Seems like there's a lot of hype and spin for the engine, and though it shows promise, it's far from Google-Killer status. http://www.azul7.com/blog/sem/cuil-redux Let's set the stage: a) Google buys technology from budding entrepreneur b) Entrepreneur leaves Google c) Entrepreneur launches competitive search service Sound familiar? Yesterday, Anna Patterson and a team of ex-Googlers launched Cuil (pronounced Cool), the latest in a line of Google-killer search services. The latest numbers from the Cuil team indicate they have ... http://www.azul7.com/blog/sem/cuil-launches I am unfamiliar with the world of interactive. There, I said it. Cat's out of the bag. Or maybe it was never in the bag, because most of you have probably figured this out after the repeated, wide-eyed, blank expressions that result when anyone mentions things like wireframes, scripts, or coding ... http://www.azul7.com/blog/tech/interactive-space-uncharted-territory As a relative newcomer to the web design scene, one of the first things that an individual developer such as myself discovers is that not all web browsers are created equal. There are plenty of slick, standards-based, and forward-looking browsers out there, but for as long as web development has ... http://www.azul7.com/blog/tech/virtually-lifechanging Welcome to As The Platform Fills, a series reporting on the latest sightings, observances, and events taking place right here — outside our office — in downtown Minneapolis overlooking the Nicollet Mall Light Rail Platform. The lives we observe are complex. The dramas we record are real. Things get weird. ... http://www.azul7.com/blog/design/210-byo%e2%80%a6-c I ride a bike to work most days. Earlier in the summer I was using a fixed-gear bike, where the freewheel - the thing on the back wheel that allows you to coast - had been replaced by a single, immobile gear. "Fixies" are designed for racing on ... http://www.azul7.com/blog/azul7/balancing-act