Friday
Sep022011

The Crawlers they are a changing

The RKIL site has been around using one form of technology or another since 1995, and it has always been interesting to look at the analytics for the site.

In the past few weeks, a significant change has taken place, a new web crawler has shown up. Baidu is a Chinese based search engine that now accounts for 20% of the crawler traffic.

Something is about to change.

Friday
Sep022011

Laptops vs Tablets is Like Theatre vs TV

It is pretty tought to visit a tech bloggers site these days without stepping into a debate slinging insults back and forth about whether or not the iPad will replace laptops.

Technology evolution follows similar cycles, we just have to find the right paradigm.

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Thursday
Jun232011

Web Site for Accora Village

The team at Ferguslea Properties had developed a set of strategies for the rebranding of the Bayshore Community to a new approach with Accora Village. The brand team, led by Instinct and supported by Deep Partners, had developed a set of strategies which included improved service, updated facilities, and a greening initiative for environmental improvements.

To help support the new brand for the community, RKIL was asked to develop a web site that would support the new brand, and provide new assistance and information for the residents of the community.

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Monday
Feb212011

New Version for CampBonaventure.com

RKIL has just finished the migration of CampBonaventure.com (and its sister sites CampBonaventure.ca, TheSalmonLodge.com and LeSalmonLodge.ca) to the Squarespace.com content management engine. The new sites provide the option for the staff at the lodges to update content on their own, including photos. The most popular feature on the sites has been the links to social media, and Facebook in particular.

Tuesday
Dec142010

Has the thin client computer arrived?

The World Wide Web began to become easy to access in the mid 1990's, the promise of thin client computing has resurfaced. Some pundits have called thin client a return to terminal based computing where a central mainframe made it easier for IT  divisions to maintain.

It has never really arrived.

With the announcements of the Chrome OS and their CR-48 notebook, Google is making an attempt to bring thin client to the masses.

While browser technology has improved especially with HTML5 standards, Google's thin client implementation does require access to the Internet in order to work.