Raincity Studios is a full service innovation agency, strategically creating and hosting online communities for businesses, organizations and publishers. With a full crew of specialists, Raincity's extensive list of competencies includes: Drupal content management syst ...em deployments, graphic design for on and off-line applications, strategic consultation about concept, traffic-building and monetization, information architecture design, custom code development, ecommerce implementations, plus a retinue of new and traditional marketing tactics to encourage participation in your community including SEO, blogging and podcasting. Beyond site development, Raincity Studios offers turn-key shared or enterprise-ready dedicated hosting solutions with redundant server farms to maximize uptime and performance. Additionally, Raincity offers comprehensive website support and maintenance agreements, custom training and documentation creation. Clients include: Sony/BMG artists, Warner Brothers Records, Harlequin books, SPIN Magazine, Mozilla Foundation, COPE, Daily Vancouver, Urban Vancouver, New Media BC, The Government of Canada, British Columbia Institute of Technology, University of British Columbia, The Grateful Dead, and over a hundred other projects. Enthusiastic advocates of open source software, Raincity Studios actively participates in the Drupal content management system development community and the RCS team regularly participate in events about open source software, international entrepreneurship, and technology growth trends including Gnomedex, E3, SxSW, Game Dev Conference, and many Demo camps, Drupal camps and Bar camp "un" conferences around the world.

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Vancouver's Raincity Studios has acquired the web company Bryght in a deal that will see the newly combined company offering a one-stop shop for the creation and hosting of websites.

The web is more interesting when you can build apps that easily interact with your friends and colleagues. But with the trend towards more social applications also comes a growing list of site-specific APIs that developers must learn.