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The recently announced Singularity University site has gone live and is powered by WordPress:

The site has seamlessly integrated a press room, various dynamic contact forms, and video all within a very easy to navigate and clean theme design.

Jason Kincaid of TechCrunch covered the news today with the following:

NASA, Google, and some of the foremost authorities in science and technology have teamed up to create a new school, dubbed Singularity University, that is looking to solve “humanity’s grand challenges”. The university is named after the idea of the singularity – an extremely rapid period of technological progress. And damn if it doesn’t sound like the coolest school ever.

The roster behind Singularity University is beyond impressive: it was founded by Dr. Ray Kurzweil (author, technologist, and futurist), Dr. Peter Diamandis (XPRIZE), Pete Worden (Director of NASA Ames), Dr. Robert Richards (co-founder of the International Space University), Dr. Robert Richards (ISU President), Dr. Michael Simpson, and a number of sponsors including Google. And to run the school, Singularity brought on board Salim Ismail, the founder of Yahoo’s innovative Brickhouse team.

[ Visit Singularityu.org ]

Ourlife, a wellness and fitness studio, has launched this very clean and elegant site using WordPress:

Using a custom theme and a set of plugins, the site was developed by nicasio llc.  In this blog post the development firm describes how quickly this project was turned around:

The customer – OurLifeHealth.com

Need – new CMS design and development in rapid development mode. Actual turn around time -  4 days.

Solution – WordPress 2.7, with custom search synonym allowing admin to associate probable words to search results. So, if visitor searched for let’s say ‘health’ in the admin an association can be made to keywords like – lifestyle, eating right, longevity, etc…

[ Visit OurLifeHealth.com ]