We've been busy little elves over here at the Clockwork web site workshop! So busy, in fact, that we've hardly had time to stop and admire our handiwork. Over the past couple of months, we've launched a wide variety of new projects. Check 'em out!

In May 2009, I added Clockwork as a Foursquare location before one of our spring parties. It's been fun watching the number of users steadily increase over the last year, and seeing all the cool ways people are using it. (But, seriously — what's up with people adding their homes as "locations"? That's just weird!)

It's also been fascinating to watch businesses tap into Foursquare with special Mayor offers (which are now an official part of the Foursquare service offering).

It's time again for all the nerdy electronics innovators to descend upon Las Vegas for CES 2010!

How many times have you been asked to move something "above the fold" on the homepage of a website? In this post we'll start with a definition of the "fold" term itself, look at some of the web design principles we can extract from this print term, and then give some recommendations on how to handle the situation should it ever arise.

Sometime mid-December 2009, Apple quietly redesigned their Application store in iTunes. This is the kind of crazy thing you can do when you have tons of identically formatted content. If the App store was a WordPress blog, it would be as if they had installed a new theme.

For many people SEO is a subject that is shrouded in mystery, but it is one of the leading factors in having a successful website presence. Making things more complicated is the fact that the SEO landscape is littered with shady providers, which can make it a difficult task to tackle well. Still, there are a lot of things you can test for, and best practices to help guide you.

Just recently, I made the jump from a basic cell phone to the Droid from Motorola - and I love it!

While working on a Facebook Page for a client project recently it came to my attention that beyond the great differences between Groups and Pages, there are also differences between Pages and Pages.

Wait, what?! I thought a Page was a Page, but I was wrong.

All the nerds and geeks at Clockwork were so excited for the Apple announcement today that we all brought our lunches to the table and watched the event unfold together.

Clockwork is pleased to announce the creation of a research unit, along with the appointment of Michael Koppelman (currently CFO) to the new position of Chief Scientist.

On Wednesday, Dries Buytaert announced that Drupal Gardens is now available in private beta. Drupal is an open source content management system (CMS) built by and for the developer community. However, it is difficult to install, configure, and deploy for the average user—virtually every site requires a collection of third-party modules to provide all the functionality needed. Dries, Drupal’s founder, aims to change that by making Drupal’s functionality available as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS).