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  1. Mäni’s Bakery Café Relaunches

    manis_logo.jpgSweet!  And tasty.  That’s how we like our clients.

    Mäni’s Bakery Café was a wonderful opportunity for us to develop the website of a food-related company.  Susie and I both love good food, and Mäni’s Bakery Café is a well loved Los Angeles institution since 1989—as you can see by the

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  2. Promare Surfaces

    promare_logo.gifDo you like marine research and exploration ?  I know—who doesn’t?

    That’s why Promare was such a fun site for us to design.  Promare is a non-profit organization that’s developing advanced research submarines, exploring shipwrecks off the Aegean coast, and generally advancing “man’s…

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  3. Drinking the Podcast Koolaid

    Truthdig LogoI’ve been interested in podcasting for a while (with followup here).  But until this week, we at Hop Studios were simply occasional consumers of podcasts, not producers.

    Podcasts, by the way, are series of audio (or some say video) files, that are delivered automatically to subscribers by…

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  4. CBC’s Election Forums: Success!

    As you know, Hop Studios helped tend the CBC election ridings forum, to keep spammers and ranters and off-topic posts to a minimum.

    Over the course of about seven weeks of the Canadian election campaigns, we moderated about 15,000 posts—well, we split moderation duties with some folks in…

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  5. Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics Launches

    This one was a lot of fun: The Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics wanted an independent, powerful website that could handle the needs of three different constituents, all in one design.

    Tiny history lesson: The Commission was formed in response to the highly visible scandals in…

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