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Websites Protesting SOPA With Design

January 19, 2012 • 1:40 pm • Posted by Jennifer in Commentary

Unless you’ve been living under a rock (or were just offline the past two days) you know that a lot of sites chose to “black out” in protest of SOPA and PIPA. Obviously these movements would greatly change how we interact with the Internet,  but I was also interested to see how sites would use design to “black out”. I don’t know about you, but I was pretty impressed.

I collected some examples of how all different kinds of sites chose to display their SOPA protests and came across some pretty cool examples.

I’m sure Google’s design approach is no stranger to you. Still, I felt the need to include it.

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Happy Holidays from Blueye!

December 23, 2011 • 2:09 pm • Posted by Jennifer in Commentary

Can you believe the holiday season is here again? It’s time to spend some relaxing and fun quality time with your family and friends.

So go ahead and exchange gifts, listen to holiday music, and decorate your home. However you choose to celebrate, the Blueye team would like to wish you and yours a safe and fantastic holiday!

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Mobile Apps For Social Traveling

December 22, 2011 • 1:12 pm • Posted by Jennifer in Commentary

The holiday season is finally here and that means there’s tons of traveling in our schedules. No better time for us to outline some interesting social applications for those of you on the go.

B4YOUBOARD

I don’t know about you, but when I finally pass security and get a prime seat at the gate, the last thing I want to do is get up with all of my carry on bags and look for some snacks. As always, there’s an app for that. With B4YOUBOARD, you can order your food and nonalcoholic drinks and get it delivered to you for no extra charge. This service is only at a few airports including Chicago’s O’hare, but it seems like the kind of app that we’ll see more of.

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