Squeak of the Week

Entries from November 2008

Medpace.com Launches

November 21st, 2008 · No Comments

Today we launched a complete website redesign for Medpace, a clinical research organization (CRO) managing drug development services for pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies trying to get product candidates approved and to market. This site is a quantum leap forward for an organization which is part of a fast-growing industry – Medpace recently announced plans to [...]

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Tags: Advertising

20 Great PHP frameworks for developers

November 21st, 2008 · No Comments

A good PHP framework can help you develope a PHP application quickly, with more simplicity and with a vision "best-practices-oriented".

Take a look at this list with 20 great PHP frameworks and suggest that you prefer or a new link to a framework not included into this list.

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Tags: Seeds of Inspiration

Google Mobile App for iPhone with Voice Search

November 19th, 2008 · No Comments

An overview of the new Google Mobile App for iPhone, now with Voice Search and My Location. You can Speak your queries to Google Mobile App without pushing any buttons and do local searches without specifying your location. Cool.

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Tags: Seeds of Inspiration

What Toyota knows that GM doesn’t

November 19th, 2008 · No Comments

Do you know how many hourly jobs GM has laid off from 2006 to July 2008? Take a guess. How about 34,000? And now, they’re talking about another 5,500 layoffs. And now they’re asking you and your government for a bailout to end their troubled, outdated, low quality, wasteful production system. But, let’s not focus on fixing GM’s problems with an infusion of cash. There’s something even deeper going on here that’s really wrong.

OK, here’s a better question. How many hourly jobs has Toyota’s American production system laid off in the same time frame? Zero. That’s right. ZERO. How?

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Tags: Seeds of Inspiration

Moms and Motrin (NYTimes.com)

November 17th, 2008 · No Comments

Odds are that a number of executives responsible for advertising Motrin find themselves with a bit of a headache today. It all began with an online ad posted Saturday on the company’s website. It was about “baby wearing” — i.e. carrying a child in a sling or a wrap, rather than pushing them in a stroller or carrying them in your arms. For some parents it is something they do simply because it works. For others it goes far deeper than that — part of a philosophy of being close to the baby whenever possible.

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Tags: Seeds of Inspiration