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Beltmann Integrated Logistics (BIL) announced the launch of their new website to promote their array of project management logistics solutions.

“The goal of our new website is to provide our customers with a complete overview of our logistics capabilities while enhancing our online presence. By encapsulating information on all of our project management and transportation service offerings in a new, central location, we hope to augment our current and future business opportunities,” stated Laura Aiuppa, Director of Marketing.

“Beltmann Integrated Logistics’ new website is a testament to the exceptional growth our organization has experienced over the past few years,” according to Bob Denehy VP of Sales and Marketing. “The BIL website will provide our Hospitality & Retail Divisions more exposure to hotels, resorts, management groups, and retailers which we expect will expand our project portfolio of servicing over 200 hotels, resorts, retailers and equity ownership properties in 2008. Moreover, the same return is anticipated for our Asset Recovery Division which has recently been awarded one of the largest logistics programs in our company’s history,” added Denehy.

TMP Worldwide received a total of 14 awards for recruitment websites developed on behalf of clients that included: AT&T, Astra Zeneca, Banner Health, Kaiser Permanente, Pitt County Memorial Hospital, Northrop Grumman, VistaPrint, and the United States Patent and Trademark Office. In addition, the TMP Worldwide website won an Outstanding Website Award.

“Our clients are great partners who are committed to using the most advanced methods to recruit and retain top talent,” stated Michelle Abbey, president and CEO of TMP Worldwide. “It is through our strong relationships and collaboration that we are able to do award winning work, and continue to deliver highly-effective interactive solutions on behalf of our clients. These awards highlight that strength, and we thank the WMA and its panel of judges for recognizing our work.”

The Web Marketing Association was founded in 1997 to help set a high standard for Internet marketing and development of the best websites on the World Wide Web. Web sites are judged on seven criteria including: design, innovation, content, technology, interactivity, copywriting and ease of use. Entries receive the Standard of Excellence WebAward when their evaluated score ranks above the average of their industry.

That big software company in Redmond will include JavaScript framework jQuery in its development environment. At the same time, Nokia announced that it will use jQuery for its mobile browser development. That’s two more big companies to join Google, Amazon, and thousands of other sites using jQuery.

Microsoft has long struggled to keep up with advances in JavaScript. In July the company announced an Ajax roadmap, which looked like Microsoft was going to eventually re-create all the features already in popular frameworks. Instead, Microsoft is going to incorporate someone else’s code, and it’s open source code at that.

This is a great move by Microsoft to avoid creating its own jQuery like framework. The company that seems to always require others to change is adapting to the way things already are on the web. It couldn’t have made a better choice in jQuery, which is a fast, nimble framework, two adjectives not often used to describe anything related to MS web development.

Mall Networks, the leading provider in merchant-funded loyalty shopping solutions, today announced it has received the 2008 Bank Standard of Excellence WebAward for Outstanding Achievement in Website Development for its work on the Chase Rewards Plus online mall.

More than 2,400 sites from 45 countries were adjudicated in 96 industry categories during this year’s competition. Entries were judged on design, copy writing, innovation, content, interactivity, navigation, and use of technology.

“We are thrilled that Mall Networks and Chase have been recognized by the Web Marketing Association for the development of the Chase Rewards Plus online mall,” said Ben Kaplan, COO of Mall Networks. “The Chase Rewards Plus site is a prime example of an outstanding online shopping destination with its best-in-class shopping experience and unparalleled flexibility to support customers within the many types of rewards programs they offer.

It’s an honor to be selected among the thousands of entries and further validates that Mall Networks’ on-demand loyalty shopping solutions are the best way for our customer, Chase, to further engage with their members across multiple communications channels.”

The facelift adds many state of the art multimedia features to the original version aiming to showcase the latest in media technology and giving users an upgraded tool to explore and interact with JCC diverse content.

With more than 200 hours of educational and entertaining broadcast material, let alone the latest multimedia tools, JCC website now enables more interaction with both children and adults, more than ever.

Pre-schoolers have their share from the content with a friendly user interface that showcases a carefully designed and chosen content, to prepare the young ones for the school years. Pre-schoolers can draw, paint, listen to music, learn the alphabet and numbers, and much more.

For more than five months, the Multimedia and website team has put lots of efforts and capability into this project, resulting in a website that reflects the true mission of JCC. The team will continue to upgrade and adapt the website as per the constant development of computer and internet technology and will continue to provide round the clock technical support.

In the interest of starting an open discussion on the city‘s controversial waterfront development project, a Thunder Bay resident has launched a website featuring chat forums, polls, and an area to post photos and links to videos.

Money raised will also be used for the group‘s miscellaneous expenses like advertising and printing costs.

While Smith would not say how much FOMP has raised to date, he did say the campaign will likely be lengthy since the OMB hearings could go into the spring.

However, he is optimistic the group will accomplish its goals. “People are really worked up (about the waterfront development project) and they want a say in this because its so divisive and so important to the community,” he said. “They want their voice to be heard on this.”

In big news for its developer division and a huge nod to its burgeoning support for open source software, Microsoft has announced its plans to support the jQuery open source JavaScript library.

The move to support jQuery comes less than a month before the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC), which will be held next month in Los Angeles and bodes well in terms of what kind of news we might be able to expect at the PDC.

jQuery is a lightweight open source JavaScript library that in a relatively short span of time has become one of the most popular libraries on the web, said Scott Guthrie, Microsoft corporate vice president, in a blog announcing Microsoft’s support of jQuery. John Resig, the creator of jQuery, who also is a chief evangelist at Mozilla, said Microsoft joins a long list of jQuery users, including Google, Intel, IBM, Intuit, Reuters, and many others.

As many as 25,000 people remain in Galveston as Hurricane Ike makes a direct hit on the island. Among them are several media crews : many residents on Galveston are now calling for help, but nobody can respond. And there are hundreds of thousands of others in mandatory evacuation areas who refused to pack up and leave. I’m afraid the Weather Service and its “face certain death” warning may be right — this is shaping up to be a major loss of life.

Update: The storm surge was than expected. Whew.

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- The Houston stations are now in wall-to-wall coverage. Live streams on ).
- KHOU is simulcasting on DirecTV channel 361, same as WWL for Gustav.
- The Houston Chronicle’s site, , is live-blogging the hurricane as well as highlighting selected coverage from its reader blogs. Users can also submit photos and video to the site.
- The ).
- (as of 6 p.m. ET) that shows TV crews on the beach.
- is offering a few (intermittent) live streams as well.
- HurricaneTrack.com has set up live… for a subscription fee, of course.
- TVNewser has on the networks and cable news channels as they get into position. CNN has 70 people along the Texas coast.
- Poynter’s Al Tompkins has updated his with Ike links.
- Interestingly, a few Google searches reveals that Houston doesn’t have many non-media news blogs — even Houston’s has a single Ike post. If you see some independent blogs covering the storm — or any other live streams and links to Ike resources — please post in comments below…

Remember that 1990s SNL skit that spoofed MSNBC’s on screen look? Even though SNL debuts for the season tomorrow, this image isn’t from the show… But Fox News Channel’s air tonight: