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How to be productive … even in Windows

Sao Paulo, Brazil — October 14, 2008

Our very own Luis Lavena will be speaking at the Rails Summit Latin America. Luis is responsible for the One-Click Ruby Installer, the Windows version of Ruby and he will be speaking about process, productivity and Ruby in the Windows environment. Even though we are an all Mac shop, we still love and respect Luis and his little (ok big) forays into the world of Windows.

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Rails Summit Latin America
A music player that is a brand apart

New York City — October 10, 2008

Giant Step Jukebox proliferates

As you may know, last year we rebuilt the Giant Step Jukebox that we had done for them back in 2003. One of the new features we introduced is the ability for Giant Step to create custom feature players that have a custom look and can be deployed on other websites.

The Sony Playstation Jukebox

This year, Giant Step has been putting the service to good use, making feature players for Levi’s, Sony Playstation, Stolichnaya, Steve Madden, LeSportsac and a whole lot more.

Work → Giant Step Jukebox

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jukebox.giantstep.net
A classic, from the year 2006

Austin, TX — February 27, 2008

The website that we designed and developed for GOOD Magazine is a finalist in the ‘Classic’ category of the SXSW Web Awards. The final winner will be chosen on March 9th. SXSW Web Awards focus on the best new Internet destinations, however this category is devoted to websites that launched before January 1, 2007. The website was launched on December 15th 2006 … we shall drink no wine before its time.

Work → GOOD Website

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SXSW website
Look out Playboy, here comes AREA 17

New York City — February 8, 2008

Magazine cover exploration

Asylum.com, the new men’s lifestyle website that AREA 17 created the brand identity and website for (November ‘07) has just surpassed Playboy.com, Maxim.com and many others as the top men’s lifestyle website — second only to Askmen.com. Asylum has a whopping 31 million page-views by a bit over 2 million good fellows (and ladies) per month. These fine folks are averaging 15 page views per visit… c’est beaucoup!

Our secret sources say the high click-rate has everything to do with the websites usable design and elegant build … and not much to do with the bedroom pin-ups or stripping french stewardess’s. Oui, oui, vraiment!

Work → AOL Asylum Brand and Website

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asylum.com