15 hours ago

TechCrunch Being a blogger, I often find design elements on the web for my posts or my blog in general. It’s becoming a very common experience for bloggers to know a thing or two about web design. I’m guessing it is the web that taught us to be quasi-designers by offering us lots of easy-to-use tools that help us create just about eve (Read More)

3 days ago

digg.com: Stories / Technology / Popular Hi there,Because there’s so much that happens beneath the surface of Digg, we’ve been working on new ways to expose the most interesting stories to more people. Today we’re launching a new homepage voting experiment called Digg Trends which will surface certain highly active stories as they’re trending to Digg’s homepage s (Read More)

4 days ago

Submitted by Funkyboy from Google Reader: PrefaceThere are a lot of good articles already written & screen casts about memory management in Flash Player.  I encourage you to read them first before reading the below.  I cover memory management in a large application using a PureMVC architecture, typically on top of Flex.Unloading Flex ModulesResource Management in A (Read More)

Oct 28, 2009

Mashable! Ryan Deal is a social media and creative advertising lover who’s got an eye for good design and a passion that won’t quit. He runs the website TopCultured.com, which can also be found on Twitter.It’s nearly Halloween again and you know what that means: candy, costumes, and carving pumpkins. This year, social media has taken (Read More)

Oct 27, 2009

Submitted by Louisgray from Google Reader: A few days ago, at the Real Time Web Summit, we had a session about Salmon, a protocol for re-aggregated distributed conversations around web content.  I was hoping for some feedback and to generate some interest, and I was overwhelmed by the positive reactions, especially after Louis Gray's post "Proposed Salmon Protocol a (Read More)

Oct 27, 2009

Submitted by Louisgray from Google Reader: News Analysis: Apple has been mum on the possibility of releasing a tablet PC. But it's not hard to imagine what an Apple tablet design might look like. In fact an Apple tablet might deliver a lot of value to enterprise users. Here are 10 reasons why a tablet could help Apple win more corporate customers. - Whether or no (Read More)

Oct 26, 2009

Hacker News One important interaction indicator on the web is the mouse cursor. The default cursor arrow changes into a pointing hand when you hover over links for example, which indicates they are indeed links and can be clicked on. It also changes into other things to differentiate context, for example it can change into a text input (Read More)

Oct 27, 2009

ReadWriteWeb Matt Mullenweg has just annouced on his blog that WordPress parent company Automattic will open source After the Deadline, a natural-language spell-checking plugin for WordPress and TinyMCE that was only recently ushered into the Automattic fold.Scarcely seven weeks after its acquisition was announced, After the Deadline's (Read More)

Oct 26, 2009

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Oct 25, 2009

RexBlog.com: Rex Hammock's weblog [Note: I am going to start doing more small business related posts here. When I do, I'm going to add relevant links to the wiki-model resource SmallBusiness.com, which, as a matter of disclosure, is owned by Hammock Inc.]TechCrunch posted a Q&A transcript in which Twitter founder Biz Stone said the following:Q: What was the (Read More)

Oct 22, 2009

paidContent.org Arnon Mishkin is a partner with Mitchell Madison Group, where he consults for media companies on improving legacy businesses as well as making the internet profitable. Prior to MMG, he was a partner at the Boston Consulting Group, where he did some of the firm’s earliest work on the web.One of the most effective television (Read More)

Oct 20, 2009

Submitted by Louisgray from Google Reader: As long time readers will know, I have been a champion of Friendfeed for quite a while.  I have almost two and a half thousand subscribers there and have connected with some amazing people.Friendfeed after Facebook’s acquisitionHowever, following Facebook’s acquisition, Friendfeed has been left to gather dust. Certainly, ma (Read More)

Oct 19, 2009

The Next Web Friendfeed, the nimble social lifestream, was acquired two months ago by social networking giant Facebook and much to the disappointment of Friendfeed’s loyal members, there was no word from the Friendfeed as to its future.Today, Friendfeed co-founder Paul Buchheit issued a message on the site responding to the great amoun (Read More)

Oct 19, 2009

Wall Street Journal Money continues to rain down on so-called “real-time” startups–Web sites, like Twitter, that are devoted to helping users share details about their lives as they happen. The latest example: a fledgling two-person company called DailyBooth, which has just raised $1 million from a gang of blue-chip venture capitalists and ang (Read More)

Oct 18, 2009

Conversation Agent People flee sellers, especially in a bad economy. Public relations was born and thrived for many years on the wave of mass media - newspapers, television news, and magazines, for example. It's quite logical to think that if you get someone else to talk about how great your company is, then you are much more likely to gain (Read More)

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