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The L.A. Times Decides to Share Travis’ Opinion

It’s not often that people listen to my opinions, even rarer when I get to share those opinions with more than a million people.

The Los Angeles Times recently decided that what I had to say about privacy online in the era of blogs and Facebook warranted a little wider distribution, so…

Transforming Metamorphosis

Don’t get me wrong—the USC Annenberg School for Communication’s Metamorphosis research project had a website. It was just pretty darn old (and infested with a bad case of pop-up frenzy) so when the team at Metamorphosis came to Hop Studios wanting a redesign, we were happy to oblige.

One…

New York Times article on Web traffic

Site traffic: it’s something all our clients ask us about.

The New York Times just wrote an article about the difficulty of determining audience traffic numbers from outside an organization vs. that organization’s internal numbers.

How many people visited Style.com, the online home of…

Hop Studios Takes the Plunge

Happily Hop Studios has picked up another author as a client. Pam Withers is known for her pulse pounding Take It to the Xtreme Series of adventure novels for young adults. They follow the exploits of two daredevil teens, who discover (and get into trouble with) a new extreme sport in each…

Meg Tilly: Actress, Author, and Now, Blogger

Sometime this summer, a friend did me a big favor by referring Meg Tilly to Hop Studios to build a website. Meg — yes, that Meg Tilly — as written several books and the newest one was due to come out in September. Over the phone Meg told me that she wasn’t sure why she needed a website, but…