Mashable!
Social media can be an incredible tool for your business, providing you with more customer insight, direct communication channels and the ability to measure the effectiveness of these conversations very closely.But as the proliferation of social media platforms grow, participating can turn into little more than a giant ti (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb
A little startup called Bit.ly has unseated TinyURL as the default link shortening service on Twitter. This isn't just about shortening links, though. "The truth about Bit.ly," enterprise software analyst James Governor said today, "is that its not a URL shortener, its a trend management and metrics platform."The key idea (Read More)
: I like http://Tr.im --1 less character and analytics--but if Bit.ly enjoys that big a lead, it'll be the one that sticks around when the Web 2.0 bubble bursts.
zlabs
Your website is designed, the CMS works, content has been added and the client is happy. It’s time to take the website live. Or is it? When launching a website, you can often forget a number of things in your eagerness to make it live, so it’s useful to have a checklist to look through as you make your final touches and bef (Read More)
Lifehacker
YouTube has just released a new sub-site called YouTube EDU, aggregating thousands of free lectures from over a hundred universities across the country, including MIT, Yale, Harvard, Stanford, and... (Read More)
Mashable!
With more than 120 million blogs in existence, how do people find YOUR content on the Internet? The key starts with great search engine optimization (SEO), which is an art and a science that helps search engines discover your content and understand how relevant it is to specific search queries.You can blog your heart out, b (Read More)
Mashable!
Dan Schawbel is the author of Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success (Kaplan, April 09), and owner of the award winning Personal Branding Blog.Looking for a job? Consider creating your own. There are a number of social resources to help you connect with other entrepreneurs and get your business ideas off t (Read More)
Delicious/kiwiscanfly
jQuery, one of the most popular JavaScript library, has a huge selection of plugins which makes it more powerful.On the other hand, there are much more codes/modules, from simple alert functions to complex galleries/form validation methods, that are hard-coded inside websites & not converted to plugins.For sure, not every c (Read More)
Mashable!
One of the most demanded features for Twitter has been the ability to create groups, allowing members to focus on different sets of people they’re following. For example, you could create groups for all of your fantasy league friends, colleagues at work, friends in real life, family members, and so on. Because Twitter still (Read More)
Ajaxian
Remember the days of frames and framesets? Not the iframe, but when you had sites with fixed headers and you cursed at not being able to bookmark correctly.Anne Van Kesteren has blogged about HTML5 frames and how the world is different:Personally I’m quite fond of the way HTML frames are handled in HTML5. In case you missed (Read More)
louisgray.com
TweetDeck has rapidly climbed the charts of popular Twitter clients since its debut last July, and with new capital backing, developer Iain Dodsworth continues to add more features to make the product practically indispensable. In the latest update, to debut tomorrow, Dodsworth adds new features that will help you communica (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb
When you want to know about a domain name, you jump to whois to get all of the information on the person who registered it. But when you want to know more about the person who just started following you on Twitter or FriendFeed, it hasn't been that easy - even though we've tried to provide you with tools to do it. Now, a ne (Read More)
Submitted by Maniac D
from Google Reader:
I happened to be poking around on the Microsoft Download site today and came across something which may be of interest to anyone with young kids who may have an interest in being the next Bill Gates of the world. When I download stuff off the Microsoft download site I often take a look through the list of downloads that ot (Read More)