Submitted by Courane01
from Google Reader:
I’ve never been all that silent on the subject of in-stream Twitter advertising, and since it’s the topic du jour today, I thought I’d weigh in on the blog post over the weekend that seemed to be the furthest out of line from the rest of them: Robert Scoble’s post entitled “More thoughts on in-Tweet advertising.”The post w (Read More)
Submitted by Courane01
from Google Reader:
I bet most of the designers love free icons, The value of icons lies in their ability to communicate with visitors or users in a more intuitive and effective way, User-friendly icon sets are always nice to look at and useful to have ready to hand,one of the most amazing thing is, many icon designers create absolutely amazi (Read More)
Mashable!:
Google has just announced yet another acquisition. This time, the Internet giant is buying Teracent, a company that tweaks display ads on-the-fly based on a wide variety of factors. According to the official Google blog:“Teracent’s technology can pick and choose from literally thousands of creative elements of a display a (Read More)
Submitted by Robdiana
from Google Reader:
What does Google REALLY think of your site's pages? Think PageRank gives a clue? Perhaps if we were shown true PageRank, we could use it as a somewhat reliable gauge, but unfortunately, we don't have that luxury. But we don't need PageRank. We have a better way to determine the rate of importance that Google places upon (Read More)
Mashable!:
It’s a brand new week, which means it’s time for Mashable’s guide to upcoming social media and web events, parties, and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable’s Events section.Is your event not on this list? Contact us at least one month before your event and let’s establish a media partnership.Ma (Read More)
Submitted by Emaynard
from Google Reader:
Today we begin Part 1 of an 8-Part series on building a web application from absolute scratch to a complete product. I am going to kick things off by introducing the idea, and then I will be handling the design, UI, and general front-end stuff. We are going to be going back and forth from here over to my friend Jason Lengst (Read More)
MakeUseOf.com:
Just a few days ago, Google announced the release of the Chrome OS source code. Within less than 24 hours, the web was littered with disk images for running the new OS on virtual machines such as VMWare and VirtualBox. I even managed to put together my own Google Chrome OS download in the form of a complete VirtualBox app (Read More)
Submitted by Mogston
from blog:
Summary: An exciting start up in San Diego (www.loopd.com) is in need of a technical design / UI / CSS ninja well versed in the ways of the new web that isn't afraid to work shoulder to shoulder with software engineers to produce a suite of web applications. The candidate ... [more]
http://www.krop.com/jobs/c9n2x/. (Read More)
Google LatLong:
We know that coupons are a great way for local businesses to drive customers to their stores - that's why we created the option for businesses to add coupons to their Google Local Business Center listing back in 2007. Now, as the holiday shopping season kicks off, we've upgraded the ways that customers can find your coupons (Read More)
Submitted by Browneyes
from Google Reader:
Google just announced that it has acquired Teracent, a display ad company that specializes in creating customized display ads in real-time based on machine-learning algorithms. While regular display ads always look the same for every user, Teracent's ads are automatically created from multiple creative elements and can chan (Read More)
Design Milk:
PSLAB was approached by architect India Mahdavi to create a lighting concept at the Monte-Carlo Beach Hotel in Monte Carlo. In the ceiling lighting fixture, the beautiful leaf-like shapes are created out of sheet metal and clustered together to create a diffused light effect. In addition, the glossy surfaces of the leaf sha (Read More)
Blog.SpoonGraphics:
Learn how to create a couple of cute and simple kids illustrations of a car and airplane using Adobe Illustrator’s basic shapes. Take inspiration from hand crafted artwork to give each graphic a plaid effect fabric texture and stitching effect.Start work by opening up Adobe Illustrator. Grab the ellipse tool and draw a larg (Read More)
Abduzeedo - design inspiration & tutorials -:
I've been writing tutorials inspired by skateboard deck designs for a few weeks and today it's not going to be different. I'm very addicted to that, I love the ideas some of the designers have and for this tutorial I will recreate a really nice effect with lines forming a star. However I will go a little bit further and I w (Read More)
Submitted by Avi
from Google Reader:
If you are a pundit, or get paid to watch trends, then this message doesn't apply to you. It's your job to go out and find the next shiny object that could influence how we live and do business.But if you're in the trenches of an organization, my advice is to stop acting like or listening to pundits. Stop looking for the ne (Read More)