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You don't need a new website. You need to make your current website more effective! How can you do that? There is no single answer -- websites are part of a larger system, and you need to consider many different aspects to make your site effective. We've been making websites since the start of the web, and know what makes them work -- as well as not work. Take what we have learned to make your site better!

Website Conversion

While a website that finds new customers is certainly compelling and worth exploring, a website that finds those customers and helps them understand y

Delivery

When you’re running a business, especially a small business, there are a lot of moving parts to pay attention to. Filling orders, staffing, budgeting,

Website Engagement

Website Engagement While a website that finds new customers is certainly compelling and worth exploring, a website that finds those customers and h

Post Salt events into a Matrix room

In our quest to get all things into Matrix, we've also sent Salt events into a Matrix room. This is extremely useful to monitor the results of automatic highstate runs, individual commands, etc.

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Post Nagios/Icinga alerts to a Matrix room

Icinga notifications in Matrix We just added Matrix notifications to an old Icinga server we have, because why not? We love having everything in Matrix...

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Added D8 Rules support to Matrix API

As of today, the Drupal Matrix API module now supports sending messages to a room via Rules. Now you can automatically configure notifications to Matrix rooms without touching any code!

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Added reminders to our Matrix bot

!remind me to respond to Bill in 2 hours

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Chat

We use Matrix.org with Riot for our chat. If you already have a Matrix account, you can chat with us by joining #lobby:matrix.freelock.com.

Otherwise, you can join us here.

Yet another messaging platform: Why Riot?

People who know me know I can get stubborn when I get sold on a particular technology. For the past year, my favorite is Matrix, a distributed chat system that addresses pretty much everything anyone wants from a messaging system. The only catch? Not that many "regular people" are using it yet.

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The Permanent Web

September 2016

[Update: a few days after I published this, Vector.im rebranded as Riot.im. It's the same project, just a new name...]

In 5,000 years, will anybody be able to read (or even access) things we put online today? Here at the dawn of the information age, we are creating the archetypes that have big implications, possibly for thousands of years. There's a bunch of recent science fiction stories that imagine various futures, written with the perspective of today's web, extrapolating where things might go as humanity evolves.

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