We’ll pause our blogging for a moment to highlight some content that has been stolen from our blog by a competing company. We won’t name names, but you know who you are! Blogposts stolen include: 5 Reasons to Revamp Your Website What’s your Why? Go Mobile, Young Man The Whys of Social Media: Facebook Website [...]
Posted by October 20th, 2010 | by Jason | Permalink
We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming for this brief announcement. Jason Stoddard, Centric’s founder and award-winning science fiction author, will be speaking at Digital Media Pipeline about the future of visual entertainment. How will we enjoy films and video in the future? Will everything live in “the cloud?” What will instantaneous access to virtually every [...]
Posted by June 3rd, 2010 | by Jason | Permalink
Yes, that’s right! We’ve been retained by The Garlic Company to help them launch their brand into retail. Building on our success with food clients such as Alberts Organics, Grateful Harvest, and Heartland Meadow, Centric is thrilled to be working with The Garlic Company! The Garlic Company grows 100 million pounds of garlic every year [...]
Posted by May 16th, 2010 | by Jason | Permalink
Centric has been selected by BowTie Publishing to lead the redesign of their premier DogChannel.com website. Who’s BowTie? Well, if you’ve ever read Dog Fancy, Cat Fancy, or any one of a number of pet-focused magazines (yes, even if you’re a reptile aficionado), you know BowTie. What you may not know is how extensive their [...]
Posted by January 27th, 2010 | by Jason | Permalink
Just a quick note on the evolution of media. A new poll from eMarketer shows that internet use has topped TV in terms of total media hours. Let’s repeat that: people are spending more time online than watching the tube. Let’s repeat that again: INTERNET BEATS TELEVISION! Or, like we’ve been saying, in this new [...]
Posted by November 4th, 2009 | by Jason | Permalink
What will the internet be like, in, say 2020? An interesting question, especially considering that Google itself was only just getting started 10 years ago. We’ve already experienced massive change in the way we get information and entertain ourselves. In fact, we could make the case that the leading edge of entertainment, news, and culture [...]
Posted by December 15th, 2008 | by Jason | Permalink
It seems to be so. Recently, Centric helped Reason.tv (home of The Drew Carey Project) launch their compelling and honest exploration of Libertarian values in Second Life through the eyes of Drew Carey. So what values did Drew find in Second Life? Well for one, “Second Life: A Virtual Frontier,” exposes libertarians to a virtual [...]
Posted by October 29th, 2008 | by admin | Permalink
No, not as in "it cost a million dollars to produce this widget," but as in "we got a million bucks of response from this widget." Let’s back up a minute. Here’s the backstory: Warner Brothers came to us to help promote their new animated movie: Batman Gotham Knight. This usually means that we create [...]
Posted by September 13th, 2008 | by Jason | Permalink
Hey, I knew the dollar was falling, but I was floored when I ran our company’s domain through DNscoop, a service that provides some really good data regarding domain age, links, pagerank, and a bunch of other stuff. Other domain valuations seem to be reasonably on-target, so I don’t understand what’s happening with our good [...]
Posted by May 12th, 2008 | by Jason | Permalink
On March 6th 2008, approximately 30 residents of a virtual world descended upon an event staged 100 meters above Yosemite valley. Far in the backdrop, one could see two towering globes. Both the terrestrial globe and celestial globe are works by Giovanni Maria Cassini (1790 & 1792), now prominently displayed on David Rumsey’s island in [...]
Posted by March 7th, 2008 | by admin | Permalink