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We’re thrilled to announce that centre{source} was recently named as a 2008 Nashville Area Chamber Future 50 company by the Nashville Chamber of Commerce. The Future 50 is an annual recognition program celebrating the fifty fastest-growing, privately owned companies headquartered in Middle Tennessee. The last year has been a major growing period for our firm, and we’re honored to be listed for what, in retrospect, amounts to a whole lot of hard work.To be eligible, companies must be privately owned, headquartered in Middle Tennessee, have two or more employees or annual revenue of at least $500,000, and anticipate revenue and employment growth of 10 percent of more per year for the next three years.

We’re proud to say that centre{source} was named as one of the ten most dependable web design firms in the southern US in the April 2008 issue of Entrepreneur magazine! This is our second year to be selected in this list, which is compiled by Goldline Research.

We always strive for excellence in delivering results to our client, and we’re thrilled to be recognized for our work.

NASHVILLE, TN, United States, 04/01/2008centre{source}.com is now ZENtre{source}.com. Nashville’s interactive strategies firm has renamed its company name to reflect its core competencies.

Since the beginning, ZENtre{source}.com, formerly centre{source}.com, has become a fountain of knowledge for progressive clients looking deep within their online persona for a user relationship that goes beyond casual clicking.

Read the full press release of centre{source}’s name change here

[ Update: For those that didn't already figure this out, April Fools! ]

Renowned tech insiders Joseph Jaffe and C.C. Chapman to Speak to local bloggers, podcasters, social networking specialists, new media marketers, and business leadersNASHVILLE, Tenn. – Members of the marketing, business, design, technology and music industries will gather at the historic Cannery Ballroom on February 9, 2008, for PodCamp Nashville, a nine hour “unconference” that aims to promote education, innovation and collaboration between technology and media professionals and Nashville’s blogging and podcasting communities.

Yesterday marked a very interesting day for online free speech on the internet.

The hexadecimal series “09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0″, was released yesterday that can be used to unlock the AACS encryption used on HD DVDs. Yes, that’s right — 32 digits can be used to bring down a complex encryption schema. Well once people started getting word of this key, they decided to start posting links to this code on the Web 2.0 site Digg.com, and that’s when the fun began. Digg.com recieved a cease-and-desist order to remove posts citing the encryption key, which they adhered to temporarily until the Digg community revolted by posting thousands of comments about the situation. Kevin Rose, founder of Digg, quickly reversed his policy and allowed full access to any and all posts with the number.

CentreSource and its CEO, Nicholas Holland, are featured in the Monday (02/19/07) edition of the Nashville City Paper. The article covers our company’s humble beginning and rapid rise to our current levels of success. We love Nashville and feel honored to be featured. Click here to read the full article.

The new mac commercials are great – especially given their crafty delivery of undertone messages about PC users. On the other hand, these parody commercials are hilarious as well. Tit for Tat baby… tit for tat.

http://www.bestweekever.tv/2006/07/07/bwe-mac-ads/

I just finished reading (SmartComputing) a quick blurb about a Virtual Keyboard that uses lasers and infrared to produce a fully functional ‘virtual’ keyboard. The picture was awesome and I thought it was revolutionary… but upon doing a little research, it appears that virtual keyboards like this date back to 2002 – possibly earlier.

Time Magazine listed a non-production virtual keyboard from Canesta as one of their best inventions of 2002. Interestingly enough, it appears that Canesta abandoned the idea and decided to focus on electronic image processing.

Blue Security, the geniuses that made news a while back advertising their intent to create a network to DoS spammers, are back in the news again.

The reason is hardly surprising. Blue Security themselves were the result of a massive DoS attack. How did they respond? According to this NANOG post, by switching their DNS to their Typepad-hosted blog. So, rather than deal with the consequences of their abuse of the Internet, they made it someone else’s problem — namely Six Apart’s: you may have noticed that both Typepad and Livejournal were down yesterday as a result of the DoS.

Looks like the Opera 9 Beta is out.

Get it while it’s hot!