Are you getting married soon, live in Venezuela, and speak Spanish? If you answered yes to all three questions, then Esta de Boda is for you!

We are proud to have launched this wedding hub for bridal tips, resources, and most importantly a wedding registry that can be fully personalized—brides can share ideas, information, and tips. We focused to design a site that assist the bride from engagement to the honeymoon and beyond.

How did we do it?

• Developed a seamless backend system for simple management of content, registries, and an ever-expanding bridal directory
• Implemented sharing features, privacy setting, and simple management system that brides can use
• We have added a social layer to suggesting gift, wedding tips, and a vast amount of content

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A friend recently asked me if he should use Twitter.com or a specialized program or website to engage with the Twitterverse. Here is my reply:

While Twitter is quickly updating their service to make their website more useful for tweeting, I would still recommend a service like TweetDeck or Hootsuite.com to manage your Twitter account for anything but the most basic experience.
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Blue Fountain Media CEO Gabriel Shaoolian was one of three experts called upon by The New York Times to offer advice in a case study on FreshDirect, the online grocer. Shaoolian was featured along with Harvard Business School professor John A. Deighton and Stew Leaonard, Jr., president and CEO of Stew Leonard’s.
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Goby.com: An Inspiration Engine

What is it?

Goby let’s you “create your own adventure” using their “inspiration engine”. Give it a category of activity, place, and time, and it’ll return a matching list of things to go out and do. In their words, “Goby is an inspiration engine all about exploring things to do with your free time, from this weekend’s adventure to your next week off…”

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Ever wonder how views are calculated on YouTube?

Back in the early days of YouTube, view-counts were determined simply by how many times the page was loaded. You could literally press your browser’s refresh button over and over again to increase a video’s view count. It didn’t take long, however, for YouTube to get wise to this game and implement some changes. As the importance of video view-counts has increased, YouTube has begun to take the situation very seriously and has put into place all sorts of algorithmic and security systems in place to prevent the gaming of view counts.

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EVENT: New York Tech Meetup
DATE: August 2010
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In our continuing efforts to keep on top of what’s happening in the New York business world, Blue Fountain Media makes a point of attending a wide variety of networking and industry events. Among the very best events… anywhere… are the ones organized and hosted by the Greater New York Chamber of Commerce.

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Looks like we finally made it into the elite group of places that are hard-coded into Google Maps.

Blue Fountain Media was in attendance last weekend during the annual Granite Transformations Convention, held in New Orleans.

One of the lectures given by the Blue Fountain Media delegation was Alhan Keser’s introduction to stickiness on websites. Each time a person visits your site, you have a chance to convert them into a paying customer. But how do you get visitors to keep returning to your site? It’s all about stickiness…
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Locating the URL, Title Tag, and Favicon page is easy once you know what to look for.

Here’s a preview of what this blog post looks like in various web browsers, with the URL, Title Tag, and Favicon marked in each one.

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