04.27.2012
Ashe Avenue is pleased to announce the recent promotion of Matt Murphy to director of client services. Murphy oversees client relationships, account executive services and project management at both Ashe Avenue and its affiliated marketing agency, Koroberi. As Director of Client Services, he is also responsible for quality assurance, client retention and business development. [...]
04.20.2012
Last year, the Arab Spring, Wikileaks, and the Occupy Movement came to fruition thanks in part to the widespread availability of social media. Status updates allowed people to organize flash mobs and protests while Twitter and Ustream allowed people to watch and comment on the action from anywhere around the world. The survival and success [...]
04.13.2012
When chatting with various web development groups in New York City, I’ve come to find one of the most commonly asked questions to be, “What do you like, and what do you not-like about PHP?” A few years ago, I felt this question was far too broad to have an effective answer, and more or [...]
04.12.2012
Spotify today launched an embeddable music player that allows your favorite online haunts to legally post their collection of Spotify tunes. Tabbed the “Spotify Play Button,” the player gives Spotify users the ability to share tracks, albums or playlists by using a simple embed found at embed.spotify.com. As music fans, this makes us very, very [...]
04.10.2012
New website targets millions of users looking to engage with the Occupy movement (BROOKLYN, N.Y.: April 10, 2012) Ashe Avenue (www.asheavenue.com), headquartered in Brooklyn, N.Y., is the high-performance web development team behind Occupy.com (www.occupy.com), a new media channel for millions of users to engage with the Occupy movement. Occupy.com offers a full range of content, [...]
03.22.2012
I am a big fan of Amazon Web Services (AWS). They are constantly working to improve their service offering, add new features, bring costs down, and create new products that while they may not have the best UI in the world, prove highly effective for solving complex problems in a very easy way. Apologies for [...]
02.21.2012
As always at Ashe Avenue, we work on tight deadlines so it is never a good thing when you have to pull the brakes to spend hours fixing problems with your development environment. That is one of the greatest benefits of VM computing — with the smallest problem, it is very easy to just fire [...]
01.31.2012
Almost one month down and 2012 is off to quite the start! Below are a few of the projects that have kept us busy during these unseasonably warm winter months: Project X Facebook Apps Ashe Avenue worked with VICE to develop two Facebook apps to promote the upcoming film, Project X – the first application [...]
12.22.2011
Another year gone by, another diverse list of favorite albums from the Ashe Avenue team. From Mason Jennings to black metal to Beyonce, there’s likely something below that suits your musical taste. Take a peek and let us know how much (or how little) you agree with our choices. It should also be noted that [...]
11.18.2011
Google’s new online music service, Google Music, will bring artists closer to their fans online and might revolutionize the music distribution model.