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Have you ever said to yourself “there aren’t enough hours in the day to get everything done?”

Well, Google has decided to contribute by making searching even faster than before. With the new Google Instant, search results are displayed as you are typing your search query.

Google estimates 2-5 seconds will be saved per search, which works out to 3.5 billion seconds a day being saved world wide. That is an astounding 11 hours saved per second!

Currently Google Instant is starting to roll-out to users on Google domains in the US, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Russia – with hopefully the others following soon.

604media is proud to announce the launch of Weddingful.com!

Weddingful helps to bring couples and vendors together in a clean, simple and hassel-free environment. It helps couples to save time when searching for the perfect wedding vendor and brings wedding planning to a whole new level.

From a fully custom CMS system, to a robust vendor search, to a full messaging/notification system and custom payment gateway support – this site has it all!

If you, or someone you know is planning a wedding, we highly recommend using this amazing site and all of its tools to help with the special day.

Also, for a limited time, if you have a profile on Weddingful and require a wedding website, we are offering a 25% discount.

Wind Mobile is the new and upcoming mobile telecommunication company in Canada. They have over 10 years of experience in 2 large markets in Europe (Italy and Greece). Their plans are affordable in comparison to other Canadian carriers.

One of the nice things about Wind is their long distance add-ons. The ability to customize your long distance for unlimited usage in certain countries – being able to call for as low as $10/month.

The Wind coverage map does not look like it really supports rural communities (which is fine for 90% of people), and their phones are not subsidized (because of no contracts!), so you will pay the full amount of the phone cost in the beginning.

Their concept seems interesting though, pay a little more up-front to get started (full cost of the phone), then pay less for a plan over time. We will keep our eyes on this and see how they do over the next little while. Hopefully they will support iPhone data plans in the future, for those of us who… well, who have phones which work with them.

You can view their website at http://windmobile.ca

And my favorite page of their site at Why Wind?

For those of you who have not yet heard, we have moved offices once again. This time we are located farther east from our last location by about 12 blocks.

We are now situated at 1822 Franklin St., Vancouver, BC.

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We will at some point be having a social meet and greet, office-warming party… keep your eyes peeled for details!

604media is proud to announce the launch of AutopilotMedia.com!

Autopilot Media is the ultimate Client Relationship Management System (CRM) combining feature rich websites, automated email newsletters, streaming video content and client information on demand.

This service is perfect for Real Estate Agents, Mortgage Brokers and Entrepreneurs.

604media is very proud to announce the official launch of The Canadian Rhodes Scholarship in Canada website! Check it out! www.canadianrhodes.org

604media has to give a shout out to “activeCollab”, a new project management and collaboration tool we installed in December 2008. We noticed the benefits immediately and I’m sure our clients will agree. Within weeks everyone was fluent in using this new tool.

Who is activeCollab?

activeCollab was developed by a small company, such as ourselves, called a51 development located in Novi Sad, Serbia. There is a lively community using and supporting this product which is no surprise since activeCollab has proven to be extremely useful,  providing essential features in a concise and easy to use format.

Congrats to the a51 team o the well deserved success.

Why did we chose activeCollab?

We looked at a selection of PM tools including: PHProjekt, dotProject and Basecamp. Here is why our research pointed us to activeCollab. For starters we needed a web based portal, without a monthly fee, that could be installed on our own server. This narrowed the field down to three choices: knocking off “Basecamp” which is hosted.

One of our company goals is to support and promote the open source community that is our bread and butter. As such the PHP/MySQL support in activeCollab was a big plus. 604media prefers to maintain control of its essential tools and data so, unlike some of the competition. activeCollab gives us complete control of the source code and a flexible license to develop extensions and modules. On top of this activeCollab takes advantage of the latest technologies to deliver a better interface.

We are excited to announce the new Growing Champions website featuring our custom CMS Admin, newsletter / mailing list management tool, and robust athlete application process management tools!

We are very excited to announce the official launch of the goBEYOND website and Facebook app!

This project really encompasses all we do:

- brand design – web design – web planning & consulting – custom cms management tools – Facebook apps (3rd Party mash-ups) – community / world conscious projects

We designed the goBEYOND brand back in September 2008, it has been public, and seen everywhere since. We then went to work developing the website development along with the goB team. They had a lot of different types of content they wanted to deliver, along with a very rough idea for the calculator, and a desire to somehow harness Facebook to spread the word. We took these rough concepts and designed the site structure, visioned the Calculator, and designed the way it would interact with Facebook.

The results speak for themselves.. Tons of great information, delivered by a state-of-the-art Ajax and jQuery powered interface. A slick Carbon Footprint Calculator, with a Facebook app to track you and your friend’s scores and spread the word about the goBEYOND Climate Initiative.

The website is powered by our industry leading custom CMS (604cms), which took the goBEYOND team almost no time at all to start utilizing. They can manage all the areas of their website using our intuitive CMS interface. It’s pretty slick if we do say so ourselves.

The Facebook App tracks scores from the Carbon Calculator, and shows users top friends, offers a Profile box to display scores, and connects Facebook users, allowing them to see each other’s scores and discuss.

It was a real pleasure working with the goBEYOND team, and is always exciting being apart of green initiatives that make a positive impact on our community and world!

We are excited to announce the launch of our latest custom cms and ecom solution. Ecobotts is a Canadian based company that specializes in ECO disposable diapers and natural baby care products.

This website boasts our ever evolving, industry leading custom content management (custom cms) tool, integrated e-commerce, site search and a robust newsletter management tool.

Within 4 hours of launching the new site, our clients received their first order from a web search source.

Congratulations Russell and Jennifer, we look forward to working with you on marketing and evolving your web presence!!