5 hours ago

FactoryCity Image based on Kevin Van Aelst’s original.Since it’s apparently all the rage to design your own features for Twitter now, I figured I’d build on my success with the hashtag and crank out a few more.All of these are simple conventions for adding more standard metadata to a post in a specific, uniform way.The SlasherFirst, I’ (Read More)

11 hours ago

Noise to Signal A range of flag-for-moderation icons, e.g. a finger pulling down a zipper, labelled 'Overdisclosure'. Caption: 'Flag-for-moderation icons I might actually use.' . (Read More)

1 day ago

louisgray-com The more people and blogs you follow on social networks and through RSS, the more likely it is that you are going to see duplicate data, be it via retweets, forwards, or through many of your friends sending the latest viral videos or images. A new product under development, called Cadmus, looks to filter your real time stre (Read More)

1 day ago

Online Marketing Blog Blogs are often touted as good for search engine optimization. The reality is, blogs are simply software tools and what you get out of them from a SEO perspective is in proportion to how well you know how to use them.  Good categorization and content is a start, but blogs as a SEO asset isn’t likely unless they attract link (Read More)

10 hours ago

Submitted by Louisgray from Google Reader: michael arrington posted yesterday on mobileofferings still being shown in ournew game fishville.  I want to explain why thisoccurred and how we are taking more aggressive steps to ensure thisnever happens again. zynga has not been able tocontrol the ad content as it is managed by the offer companies that we work with.  wit (Read More)

2 days ago

Submitted by Morgan from Google Reader: Ann Curry joined in a “spontaneous” musical about lunch at Trump Tower, and the ImprovEverywhere team worked with NBC to capture the fantastic moment in “I Love Lunch! The Musical.”  Watch the Today Show coverage of the event and see some fantastic photos by visiting ImprovEverywhere.com. The bit borrows heavily from my fav (Read More)

4 days ago

Submitted by Morgan from Google Reader: Wedding dances, dancing babies, Kanye West, broken guitars and a crowdsourced music video. These are the top 5 most embedded and linked to videos of this summer. Social media analytics and tracking firm Sysomos just posted an extensive report about how bloggers use videos on their sites. One part of this report looked at th (Read More)

1 day ago

Seth's Blog When you're just starting out or when your organization is struggling or when the economy isn't hot, it's very tempting to take what you can get.You just graduated from law school and you have a lot of debt and the best job you can get is doing collections work. Should you take it?Your consulting firm is organized around pr (Read More)

1 day 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)

1 day ago

GigaOM Of All The Dot-Com Superstars That Appeared In The '90s Shone Brightly And Then Disappeared From Sight Few Have Been ... . (Read More)

1 day ago

Screenwerk Earlier this month a new soup-to-nuts SMB marketing company, ClickFuel, launched. The company has a relationship with Intuit and may get some promotion there through its App Center integration with QuickBooks. Beyond this — and though quite polished — they’re going to struggle like everybody else to be heard in the noisy an (Read More)

1 day ago

Google Operating System Gmail Chat, the web-based version of Google Talk, added last year voice and video chat. The feature is now available in iGoogle and orkut, but it will probably be added to other Google services, as well.SFGate reports that Google will improve the service significantly in the coming months.Gmail's voice and video chats are n (Read More)

1 day ago

Submitted by Morgan from blog: Loan Modifications can seem complicated to many of us. Especially when we are dealing with the stress of losing our home and we are presented with a seemingly endless list of requirements and forms to cope with. It is easy when writing many articles on a specialized subject to assume that everyone knows what you are talking (Read More)

2 days ago

Mashable! In addition to celebrating Muppets today, Google appears to be loudly and proudly celebrating something else on its home page.With the Verizon Droid launch hot and heavily underway today, the search giant is according the highly-regarded Android phone a place of honor on Google.com today. Although it’s not unprecedented — t (Read More)

2 days ago

The LinkedIn Blog A couple days ago, we launched several new features aimed at enhancing the professional conversation in LinkedIn groups. We call one of those features “following”.Following makes it easier for you to see contributions made by your connections and other people you value within your groups. To get you started, you’re already (Read More)

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