We named our company after the most hated HTML tag of all time. I just found a desciption of the origin of the BlinkTag by the person who came up with it, Lou Montulli. Its an interesting read, apparently it was meant as an easter egg and was initially undocumented: “I remember thinking that this [...]
Our pals at Freshbooks asked us if they could use our office to host an upcoming workshop on “How to Build a Web App Business”. We were pumped to open our office to people interested in web apps and to get a visit from our favorite Canadian tech company. On Feb 26th at 9 AM [...]
Great sucess
BlinkTag Inc has been approved by the State of California as a certified Small Business. As long as we stay under 100 employees and keep our average annual gross receipts of $12 million we get a 5% bid preference on applicable state solicitations, waived fees and a streamlined bidding process for state contracts. Also, non-small [...]
Notice anything different in our URL? We just completed purchasing and transitioning to http://blinktag.com from http://blnktag.com. Note the lack of the letter “i” in our old domain name. This new domain name is easier to communicate and matches our company name. All links to the old site redirect properly and all @blnktag.com email addresses forward [...]
In honor of Geocities shutting down today, XKCD redesigned their site in Geocities style. This redesign included a prominent use of the blink tag (including some HTML mistakes to show the markup).
Firefox 3.6 beta was released today. It added support for “Orientation” events in web content. This javascript event can use a devices built in accelerometers to detect the orientation and update accordingly. Since our company name is based on a non-standard HTML tag that makes text Blink I thought it would be fitting to apply [...]
We haven’t posted pics of our office, which features Super Mario Bros wall decorations, a 7ft tall scale model of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower, a tiki bar and even some computers. Here are some choice shots:
Jed, Mike and I were featured on TransForm’s flickr page as attendees of this years Summit 2009: Windfall for All. We attended sessions on carsharing, transit and even one that discussed Cool Neighbors, the project we’re working on for TransForm.
If you didn’t already get it, we sent out an email to most of our past and present clients, friends, colleagues, drinking buddies and facebook friends. Thanks for all of the positive replies, I’ll make sure to respond to everyone who wrote back within a day or two. We don’t email our list very often [...]
We like our company name, a reference to a non-standard HTML tag. It looks like there might be a new competitor, the pulse css animation. If you are on an iphone or using a a webkit nightly the element below should pulse If you are not using one of these browsers, you can just enjoy [...]
The news about the economy these days isn’t great, but blinktag might just come out on top. An article about the future of the tech industry published in The Economist cites the often neglected converse of Moore’s law, which holds that computing power will double about every two years, to point out what we’ve been [...]
Why a new name? Horne Nee Inc was a bit too risque for some of our clients, and blinktag was too clever to pass up. We were able to get the desired domain name sans “i”, but figured that “i” could be an optional, blinking character in the name. Why blinktag? The blink tag or [...]
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