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Advomatic 2.0 – Now with 200% more Awesome!

Sometimes it’s not when you see the light, but when you feel the heat that things change. Here’s the saga of Advomatic’s shiny new site, and what makes it 200% great. When we founded Advomatic on January 1, 2005, word-of-mouth referrals from co-workers at the Dean campaign were already bringing clients to us, so we

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Firefox Add-ons for Productivity

It’s difficult to imagine working on the web without Mozilla’s Firefox and its bounty of fantastic, community-contributed add-ons. Everyone knows about Firebug and a myriad of other add-ons that have cut development and debugging time by huge percentages. But even if you aren’t a coder, there are some fantastic, lesser-known add-ons that will that boost

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Media Sprint at Open Media Camp in Denver!

Make sure to attend the Media Sprint Update Panel and join the Media Sprint 2009 at Open Media Camp in Denver, on April 18-19! The presenters of this panel, including Aaron Winborn (aaron), Arthur Foelsche (arthurf), and Alex Urevick-Ackelsberg (Alex UA), will discuss the ongoing efforts of the Media Sprint by the Drupal Media working

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What to use for test email addresses

I often come across test email addresses that people have created and I’m alarmed. It’s common to see something like yesyes@nonono.com or test@test.com. But beware, these are real domains. Consider the following example. You are working away on your site and you need to create a test admin user and you use something funky like

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Click-to-Call Tool Nominated for a Golden Dot Award

Advomatic’s Click-to-Call tool has been nominated for a 2009 Golden Dot Award in the “Best Mobile/Text Message Campaign” category. The Golden Dot Awards, organized by the Institute for Politics, Democracy & the Internet, recognize achievement in online politics. The winners will be announced on Thursday, April 16. Click2Call automates the “Call your Representative” activism process.

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Video for Drupal Multimedia Panel at DrupalCon

Here’s the video for the Drupal Multimedia panel at DrupalCon. Presenting were Arthur Foelsche, Alex Urevick-Ackelsberg, and myself. By the way, the dev version of Embedded Media Field now supports Archive.org. Hopefully the Drupalcon site will install the module so we can see all the videos directly from that site; even if not, I’m sure

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