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Farmville: A $1,400 Lesson in Web Parenting

Monday April 12, 2010
By: Caroline Silver

Recently, a mom in the UK received a huge shock when she discovered her 12 year-old son used his savings and her credit card to spend a total of $1,400 playing the Facebook application game Farmville.  Here is some advice to parents who want their children to enjoy themselves, but seeking to avoid a surprise smack to the wallet. 

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Bull City Blowout

Monday March 15, 2010
By: Caroline Silver

A competition between Durham's creative finest called the Bull City Blowout begins this year on April 16th.  DesignHammer is one of nine competing agencies to raise money for local nonprofit organization SeeSaw Studios.

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Social Network Trends

Thursday March 11, 2010
By: David Minton

The Wall Street Journal posted an interesting article on Changing Face of Social Networks earlier this week, suggesting “five years is a lifetime for the average teenager’s habits,” citing the rise of MySpace, until its eclipse by Facebook two years later as an example. Current research indicates that the trend continues, with facebook usage by 18–24 year-olds diminishing over the last three months.

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Drupal - Salesforce Integration for the Proteus Networks website

Wednesday March 3, 2010
By: Kosta Harlan

We recently finished up development on a new Drupal website for Proteus Networks, a Juniper and Cisco network training and consulting company. The main challenge for the new site was to integrate Salesforce (a popular customer relationship management system used by over two million subscribers) with Drupal, the open-source content management system used for the website redesign.

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20+ (Mostly) Free SEO Tools & Resources

Friday February 19, 2010
By: Tevan Alexander

A peek at the search engine optimization tools and resources we use at DesignHammer to perform SEO.

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