JuneBug Review blogs are informative and appealing for those eminent critics who want to match comment for comment. For instance, check out Steve Figeroua’s blog on “The Love Guru” , “Well the awesome touch was having a lot of John Stewart’s crew in the film with hilarious one-liners. This film did what it was intended to do. It made you laugh. If you’re a fan of the Austin Powers franchise, you’ll love this movie.”

To sum up what JuneBugReview.com will offer you upon each visit is relatively simple. It’ll never be the same. You’ll never log on and read slew of long winded declamations of praise or disapproval by a failed producer-turned-critic whose closest glimpse of notoriety was a short film rejected by Lorne Michaels in the late 1970’s. We are just everyday people with average lives, who share a passion for movies and a lack of enthusiasm for misleading movie reviews. We created this site to give you exactly what you deserve: A chance to share with others the experience YOU had at the movies!

Steve writes,

“We want that detail, that hilarity, that spark that gives us all a reason to keep going back to the theater every weekend. “

If you or you company deals in areas that are of interest to June Bug Review, NFi Studios would encourage you to take part in bringing awareness to your products in a way that stands out from the typical internet site. If you want more relevant advertising, take a look at the sponsorship opportunities available.

NFi now a part of the Social Networking & Media Association

The goal of the Social Networking and Media Association is not simply to provide a platform and official association for anyone who has an interest in this area to join, but is also intended to be the model association of the future: Association 2.0.

This is a new association but much needed for the industry. NFi wants to be involved in the formation of this association, as well as the education and marketing to professionals. We will update you from time to time on news of the association.

CoLab Orlando & Coworking in Orlando

NFi is working with other techs and creatives in the community to support the launch of CoLab Orlando. CoLab Orlando is a Coworking Space for anyone looking to have a dedicated work area (desk or suite), and be part of a community environment. CoLab Orlando is located on the 6th floor of the Angebilt building and is a work in progress. The tradition of the Angebilt, Orlando’s most historic building, combined with the innovation of Orlando’s tech and creative talent, make CoLab an exciting project we can all share in.

Owner of the Angebilt, John Hussey, is calling on the communities feedback and support…
“Over the past several years I’ve seen the Orlando tech & creative community really emerge. As a commercial real-estate owner, I am proud to be part of Orlando Coworking. However, I know it’s not my vision that will make this space successful. CoLab Orlando is founded the community’s support and feedback. I ask for your feedback in what you want from CoLab Orlando, and with your support we will make this a success for our city. ”

- John Hussey, President/CEO, RealTrend Inc.
For more info on getting involved with CoLab Orlando, contact Sterling (sterling@nfistudios.com) or Dave (david@hydrastudio.com)

NEW NFi and MemberFuse Websites Coming in August!

Check back in August for a fresh new look to our NFi site with a more personal look into our company and our clients. Also we will be updating our MemberFuse site with a demo and additional resources on why MemberFuse would benefit your association or organization.

Client Spotlight: JuneBugReview.com

JuneBug Review is a dynamic new site dedicated to maximizing the consumer’s entertainment experience. JuneBug Review brings users together by offering the ability to share their views and opinions with one another through uploading movie video reviews and written comments. Understanding the importance of consumer desires, JuneBug Review also provides movie trailers, show times, ticket purchasing and pretty much everything else movie!
“The choice we made as a team to go with NFi for our design and implementation needs, as based on several factors. One of which was their willingness to work with startup firms such as ours and help guide us in the right direction. In addition, their one-on-one approach with us as a client gave us the ability to truly articulate our needs with designers and other members of their staff.
It allowed us to build a relationship with NFi Studios where we could speak openly, trade ideas, and explore the possibilities within our grasp. We have grown tremendously over the past few months and we owe much of that to NFi Studios.

- Eddie Fuentes, President/CEO, JuneBug Review.com

Upcoming Events

July 4 // Fireworks at the Fountain @ Lake Eola, 9pm
July 17// Refresh Orlando, 7pm, Check website for location
July 21// Florida Creatives Happy Hour @ Crooked Bayou, 6pm-9pm
July 22 // Orlando PHP Meeting @ Check website for location, 7pm-9pm
July 24 // Downtown Orlando Partnership @ Citrus Restaurant, 5:30pm-7:30pm

Every Tuesday // Coworking Orlando @ the Stardust Video & Coffee in Winter Park, 9am-5pm

For instance, did you know you could travel around the world without ever leaving your home? From space to street level, Google’s Earth uses satellite imagery and mapping technology to allow you to find and see any location in the world through an attractive and easy to use interface.

And then there is Sky for those hampered by bright city lights or clouds, you can still enjoy looking at the night sky with this program from Google. It provides easy access to images from the Hubble telescope through the Space Telescope Science Institute, allowing users to look through planets, stars, galaxies, satellites and more.

For web browsing and development Google’s SketchUp is a simple but effective 3D drawing tool designed for both Macs and PCs that can be a handy tool for architects, designers and even game developers. The program is loaded with some innovative tools and also allows users to upload their drawings directly into GoogleEarth.

Social networking and communication hasn’t escaped Google either. Check out Friend Connect this new feature offered by Google allows users to easily add social networking functionality to their sites. You can integrate the program with sites like Facebook and Orkut and best of all it requires no in-depth programming know-how.

Christina Laun actually delineates a summary of 57 useful Google tools. Take a look at her article for products ready to use at the click of your mouse!

Most of us are involved in Social Media in one way or another, even to the extent where social media becomes integrated into the marketing mix. So there is indeed a demand out there to understand how social media works and even how social media impacts our future economically and in many other ways. Brian writes,

“Many companies are participating in social networks as a form of proactive outbound customer service with a twist of social marketing…Engaging with and empowering your customers as an extension of your marketing efforts isn’t new. However, in the era of social media, there are new tools and philosophies to more effectively listen and engage with customers.”

Interestingly, in his ebook, Brian discusses the differences between social media and social science and in doing so makes some clear distinctions. “Social sciences provide us with an understanding of how human interaction and the ensuring ecosystem shape individual attitudes and behavior; whereas, Social Media communities take the form of social networks and the communal groups within them. People establish associations, friendships and allegiances around content, objects, products, services and ideas. How they communicate is simply subject to the tools and networks that people adopt based on the influence of their social graph.”

This free ebook makes for some very informative reading. No doubt, this required a significant amount of time investment and NFi Studios commends Brian on this noteworthy endeavor.

NetSquared hosts a very formidable goal; that being to encourage people to share their projects with the broader community and to provide these projects with hands on help and concrete resources.

Every year NetSquared sponsors their own Mashup challenge in order to facilitate this goal, and in addition, they work with a variety of partners to create more opportunities for great projects to be recognized. NetSquared has mapped out a list of challenges and competitions for the NetSquared community.

Wikipedia defines mashup as a web application that combines data from more than one source into a single integrated tool; an example is the use of cartographic data from Google Maps to add location information to real-estate data, thereby creating a new and distinct web service that was not originally provided by either source. Mashups should be differentiated from simple embedding of data from another site to form compound documents. A site that allows a user to embed a Youtube video for instance, is not a mashup site. The site should itself access 3rd party data using an API, and process that data in some way to increase its value to the sites’s users.

NetSquared’s Challenge was created to bring together a unique mix of people from the public and private sectors to develop and release Mashups designed to provide deeper insight into the social issues affecting communities around the globe. Basically, the Challenge asks “How would you mashup the Network for Good donation processing service with other services to make it easier for nonprofits to raise money online? We’re working with Network for Good, the Case Foundation, and the NetSquared community to enhance the online donation process.”

The Mashup Challenge has gone through the first phase and this year’s 21 Featured Projects. have been selected. If you have a project in here, we encourage you to keep your project information up to date. If you are new to this, please feel free to add your project. To submit a new idea to the Project Gallery please register and log in. Note that while you can sort the Mashup projects by date, project name, cause area, comments and stars, the project list appears in random order upon login.

Over the coming weeks and months, we will be scheduling hack days, showing the projects to our various corporate partners like our sponsors and our partners at TechSoup Stock, and we may even have other opportunities to provide direct financial support in the future.

Check out the Awards and Challenges Overview page to see all challenges and awards available to the NetSquared community.