In February I learned that I'd lost my driver's license as I was standing at the TSA counter at the Lubbock airport. I was able to use alternate photo ID & credit cards to establish my identity and I was able to clear security. While alternate mean of identification works for the TSA, rental car companies are only interested in you if you...

In my hours away from the world of marketing and web development, I write a wine blog called Vinotology . Since I started my blog, I’ve become pretty active in the wine blogging and Twitter community and have had the opportunity to observe the way that a lot of wineries are using social media to market their businesses. There are some wineries that...

Google recently introduced the WebFinger protocol and enabled it for all Gmail account. What is WebFinger? WebFinger is a protocol that can be used to attach public profile information to an email address. Engineers have been fumbling around with ways to standardize the way profile information is shared for years. Remember OpenID? Or Facebook Connect...

You may have read about the new strongly-typed helpers in ASP.NET MVC 2 . In addition to the HTML element helpers like Html.TextBoxFor() , you can use the more generic Html.EditorFor() to build your own template for editing a custom data type. In this post, I'll show you how to create a single template you can use for any forms that need a rich...

Smooth Fusion took Gold at the Lubbock Advertising Federation Addy Awards in the Interactive Media division for the design and implementation of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra Kids site. Smooth Fusion received the award at the February 6, 2010 awards dinner. Jay Bates, Smooth Fusion co-founder and Creative VP accepted the award on behalf of Smooth Fusion...