WebResourcesDepot
Few weeks ago, a post at WebResourcesDepot was sharing 20+ Cheat Sheets Handy For Designers. Considering how helpful they are, here is another collection of cheat sheets specially for web designers & developers.From the applications used to CSS & XHTML or JavaScript frameworks to url rewriting, there are 70+ well-categorize (Read More)
The Next Web
Google’s first attempts at a social network with Orkut have not proved fruitful, apart from in Brazil of course. Other more standard social networks such as Facebook, MySpace and Bebo have seen great success with large rounds of investment and major acquisitions. (Read More)
MediaShift
In what some initially speculated to be a homophobic new expurgation policy, Amazon.com removed hundreds of gay and lesbian themed books from its sales rating system, effectively concealing these books from online shoppers. Some titles were completely delisted from Amazon's search engine. The controversy may never have pro (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb
Thanks to its extensibility, Firefox quickly became the favorite browser for most power users. But while extensions are a great way to make Firefox more functional, Mozilla's designers are also currently thinking about a complete redesign of the way the browser looks and feels, in order to keep up with changing usage patter (Read More)
SEOmoz Daily SEO Blog
Posted by randfishSeth Godin is someone I greatly admire, so it was a bit troubling to see him take on the broad subject of How to Make Money with SEO in such a surface-level fashion. However, after a few emails, I feel pretty good that his intentions were solid, and that he's just presenting a viewpoint that many others ha (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb
Ten years ago the ClueTrain manifesto said that "markets are conversations" but today a more pertinent statement could be that conversations are becoming markets - or that there's a market for monitoring conversations. A whole class of technologies are emerging to help companies keep track of the conversations exploding on (Read More)
TechCrunch
Update to our post last night about Google/Twitter talks. New sources say that Google is interested in acquiring Twitter, and has had talks with the company about a deal. Google’s internal valuation, however, would value the company at a token premium above Twitter’s last round of financing valuation, around $250 million. S (Read More)
Submitted by Mcwflint
from Google Reader:
One of the biggest ironies of the social media is that those whose profession it is to get brands and companies to set up a presence within the social media environment themselves see it as a waste of time, and no substitute for what most people would refer to as real life, real life being the life that you live in the phys (Read More)
Louis Gray - FriendFeed
Google is the most innovative company in the world, in large part because they hire smart people who get things done, and they give their engineers 20% time to work on any project they want. Google has found a powerful way to unleash creativity to solve incredible technical problems.I wonder what would happen if enough Amer (Read More)
All Facebook
Yesterday I began doing some research to determine if there was a shift taking place among top Twitter users and Facebook users given the new Facebook design. I was trying to determine the most effective barometer of user influence across both sites and the only thing I could come up with was a comparison of the top users (Read More)
: @robdiana what do you think? - there are some interesting points here, 10m users and some serious reach for its size with Twitter but the 200m gorilla is still Facebook.
Submitted by Frinsen
from Google Reader:
Microtransactions, including sales of virtual goods in online games, are expected to have the highest impact on the course of the video game industry in the next five years according to data gathered by Venture Beat's "Mapping the Future of the Games Industry" survey. Advertising revenue, in terms of impact, came in next-t (Read More)
Seth's Blog
I've been thinking a lot about issues of scale and units of measure.Many businesses that are in trouble are in trouble for a simple reason: they're the wrong size.A newspaper that only had a few dozen employees would be doing great today. But they have hundreds or thousands of employees because that was an appropriate scale (Read More)