Green Bay Net Blog
Time flies! We moved into the "new" (still new to us) GBN offices in 2005. Max was a spiritely ONE YEAR OLD!
Today, he hit the 9 mark! Bruce, our trusted advisor has a birthday
Birthday week at Green Bay Net (February has always been over-represented with birthdays in our Green Bay Net family). Today we are going to party like "rock stars". With 4 client meetings, the world's greatest web designer has a busy day. Hopefully the snow lets up by lunch for some Taco-Burrito #...
Today, American Express announced they are introducing a payment method that most people were not expecting: Tweets!
Here are some news articles giving more details about the announcement:
Amex Launches Pay-By-Hashtag Over Twitter - MediaPost
Twitter and Amex to let you pay with a hashtag - CNN...
Today is Thomas Edison's birthday. He was an inventor - truly inventing the phonograph, but he was also able to improve upon, mass produce, and popularize many other technological advancements. The media, the workplace, medicine, and the Internet would be vastly different places without Edison....
Thanks to all of our friends
We passed 400 friends on Facebook last night! We really don't care about reaching stratospheric numbers to the point where we have to have a "Facebook Department" and slow-moving policies that tend to go along with that. We love Facebook. We love our friends. We love...
Yesterday, as you may know, Donald Driver - the all-time leader in receptions and receiving yards for the Green Bay Packers retired. He had a great send-off with luminaries including everyone from Packers legend Bart Starr to Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker. The accolades and tears were flowing,...
You might not be familiar with the term "Internet Meme" but it is basically something that spreads quickly on the Internet. One of the most famous memes is the "Rick Roll". Rickrolling became popular in 2007. We aren't going to trick you into clicking on any Rick Astley videos, but we will give you...
Before the iPod Touch, Playstation series, and Xbox - even before the Sega Genesis and Nintendo Entertainment System - there was the Atari 2600. Many of you older gamers out there learned about video games - and then computers - from Atari's arcade games and home console.
The founder of Atari (as...
On February 4th, 2004, everyone's favorite social network Facebook started! As you probably know, it started out with college students in Harvard and quickly grew to other colleges and into the general purpose social network we have today.
Facebook now has over 1 Billion users - half of whom log...
Your Windows computer may have come with a free-trial of an anti-virus program. You may have seen a great deal on an anti-virus suite. You are really better off deleting those trials and not spending a nickel on these products. Modern operating systems like Windows 8 and Mac OS X Mountain Lion have...
