The Official Blog of AREA203 Digital

With the combined dominance of social media, the tablet and the smartphone, it’s no surprise that the social gaming industry has taken off. What is a bit surprising, [...]

One of the most important aspects of your marketing strategy is not just what you are advertising, but where you are advertising. How useful is [...]

Yammer is traveling around the world to share how its Enterprise Social Network can empower companies to connect with their employees, clients and partners. AREA203 [...]

I love The Academy Awards because I love movies. I judge a film by its ability to entertain me, be it “Pee Wee’s Big Adventure” or [...]

There is a specific corner of the Internet that I have been nerdily obsessed with for the past several years. That place is the wonderful [...]

Sunday night, millions of viewers will tune in to watch as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recognizes outstanding works of achievement in [...]

• Take a quick look at Life on Earth, an upcoming animated textbook on steroids for Apple’s new iBooks e-book app for iPhone and iPad. [...]

Remember Xanga? How about LiveJournal, Tagged, and Classmates.com? Where are they now? After all the attention Facebook received with the recent release of its IPO, [...]

Technology has and continues to quickly evolve and change the way of life for all of its users.  It is now hard to remember how [...]

Security blog Barracuda Labs recently published an infographic with information on a new analytical study on Facebook profiles. The study focuses on real users versus [...]

  Why Do Humans Have Body Hair? Or for that matter, why don’t we digest high fructose corn syrup very well? On what deeper levels [...]

How many of us have sent out an email or a text message only to have it interpreted a little—or worse, completely—differently than we intended? [...]

As winter comes to a close, the weather is not the only thing beginning to heat up. AREA203′s Afternoon Adventures is competitive as ever, with even [...]

Mark Zuckerberg’s recent enabling of the political preference choice setting on Facebook showed political engagement on social media was inevitable. Candidates post, tweet and share [...]

How funny is it that once every four years, women in the British Isles can only propose to men on Leap Day, February 29? This [...]

Even the best of us have suffered the quarrelsome end of a romantic relationship. Hearts are fragile things and, on occasion, they’re smashed to bits. So what [...]

In honor of Social Media Week, the following #1wordpoems were collaboratively written by members of the AREA203 Team and contributing tweeps (see below for full [...]

Social media has changed the way we do nearly everything. For increasing numbers of people, living a full digital life means sharing, tweeting, posting, liking [...]

Whether you love hearts and chocolate or hate the materialist hype of February 14, Valentine’s Day is always a good time to show others you [...]

Yesterday, to kick off our Valentine’s Day-themed Social Media Week activities, we asked for your #RejectedRomanceNovels tweets. We even came up with a few of [...]

Considering the seemingly infinite number of browsers and platforms end users can be on, developing with usability in mind can sometimes be overwhelming. This article at Smashing [...]

The Internet Is A Weird Place A friend of mine was recently dumped by her boyfriend via an unexpected Facebook message. She was furious. How [...]

Have you ever looked at the classic Coca-Cola bottle before? I know you have seen it, but have you ever looked at it? Look closely [...]

As the candidates for the 2012 Republican nomination enter the heart of primary elections to determine which of them will face President Obama in 2012, [...]

Timeline Imagine a digital space that displays your life from birth to the present, in a beautifully designed, easily navigable format that seems to float [...]

If you’re like me, you watched Super Bowl XLVI for the commercials. Honestly, I had no idea what teams were playing (don’t worry, I figured [...]

Facebook filed to become a publicly traded company on Wednesday, in what is likely the largest IPO in tech history. Not surprisingly, founder Mark Zuckerberg [...]

Ever since the first Super Bowl in 1967, when the Packers beat the Chiefs with a 35 – 10 victory, advertisers have stormed the airways [...]