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How to Find Clever Web Domains Like del.icio.us or ma.tt or blo.gs
via Digital Inspiration by Amit Agarwal on May 15, 2008
Say your name is Jessica and you plan to launch a personal website but the web domain jessica.com is already registered. You then try other common options like .org or .net but unfortunately, none of them are available.What you can not try is different permutations and combinations of domain names - something like jessi.ca, j.essi.ca je.ssi.ca, jes.si.ca or jes.si/ca - they are all valid domains...
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RSSmeme Launches API, Provides Filtering Tools Galore
via ReadWriteWeb by Sarah Perez on May 12, 2008
Benjamin Golub has been busy. He runs the site RSSmeme, an RSS aggregator that displays the top Shared Items items from Google Reader users. For a brief time, RSSmeme was the only Google Reader aggregator in town after ReadBurner closed up shop. But not too much later, ReadBurner was purchased and relaunched (our coverage), putting the two sites in competition once again. However, it looks like...
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Why Gen Y Is Going to Change the Web
via ReadWriteWeb by Sarah Perez on May 15, 2008
Gen Y is taking over. The generation of young adults that's compromised of the children of Boomers, Generation Jones, and even some Gen X'ers, is the biggest generation since the Baby Boomers and three times the size of Gen X. And as the Boomers fade into retirement and Gen Y takes root in the workplace, we're going to see some big changes ahead, not just at work, but on the web as a...
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The Web Developer's SEO Cheat Sheet
via SEOmoz Daily SEO Blog by Danny Dover on April 30, 2008
Posted by Danny DoverWhen I first started at SEOmoz about 9 months ago, I was the web development intern. My experience prior to the internship was limited entirely to writing code. Since then, I have spent literally hundreds of hours expanding my knowledge into different areas. Specifically I have focused on accepted SEO techniques and small business practices. My beginner SEO checklists of the...
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Books to Film Update: May
via Fremont Libraries by celticlibrarian on May 05, 2008
Here is the May update on the current status of the “books to film” projects that have been mentioned on this blog to this point. I will try to do this once a month in order to follow each film until it reaches DVD. Please remember that release dates are subject to change, and that sometimes “Announced” films never get made. Not too much has changed this time around, but it’s always...
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A need for speed: the path to a faster loading sequence
via Official Gmail Blog by Gmail Blog on May 13, 2008
Posted by Wiltse Carpenter, Tech Lead, Gmail PerformanceGreat performance has always been an obsession at Google and it's something that we think about and work on everyday. We want Gmail to be really fast, and we keep working on ways to make it faster. Gmail's architecture eliminates many of the delays in reading mail by employing techniques like prefetching, but recently we decided to...
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Your Guide to the Crowdsourced Workforce
via ReadWriteWeb by Josh Catone on May 12, 2008
Crowdsourcing, a term coined by Jeff Howe in a June 2006 issue of Wired magazine, is a model of labor that has been fully embraced on the Internet over the past couple of years. Crowdsourcing takes tasks traditionally done by a single person or small groups of people, and farms them out to a global workforce. The large-scale committee approach is powerful because it leans on the concept of the...
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The Monkey is Out of the Bag: Yahoo! Opens Search Developer Platform
via ReadWriteWeb by Josh Catone on May 15, 2008
Paul Miller reports that Yahoo! is today opening up its open developer platform for search SearchMonkey. SearchMonkey, which we reported on at the Web 2.0 Expo, is a component of a major overhaul at Yahoo! across all of its properties to "rewire" for the social graph and data portability. SearchMonkey allows developers to build applications for Yahoo! search "that enhance the usefulness and...
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Photoshop for Web Design - Download This PDF e-Book for Free
via Digital Inspiration by Amit Agarwal on May 15, 2008
SitePoint is running a unique promotion this month. They are giving away free PDF copies of "The Photoshop Anthology" - a cookbook that illustrates 101 web design techniques on how to use Adobe Photoshop for stuff like creating web buttons, applying text effects or designing website layouts from scratch.You just give them an email address and the links to download this 270 page colored Photoshop...
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Split the Initial Payload; Why are we sending all JavaScript down in one go
via Ajaxian by Dion Almaer on May 15, 2008
Steve Souders has another insightful post where he discusses splitting the initial payload for the JavaScript in your page / application.Steve first outlines how JavaScript can affect how the browser renders a page:The growing adoption of Ajax and DHTML means today’s web pages have more JavaScript than ever before. The average top ten U.S. web site[1] contains 252K of JavaScript. JavaScript...
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