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FaceBook in Reality (Video)
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Google Launches Mobile Banner Ads
Google joined a handful of other companies by announcing that it is delivering mobile banner ads.
Companies that use Google’s AdWords to advertise online now have the option of displaying a banner ad on cell phones instead of simple text. Google includes a text line under each banner identifying it as an advertisement. Clicking on the [...]
8 Web Design Mistakes That Developers Make
An excellent website takes a particularly savvy blend of both great design and great code. Because of this, you often find designers having to figure out code and developers trying their hand at design. Speaking as a developer and designer, I can safely say that programmers are not designers. Back in the day reusable code [...]
Apple.com: A life remembered
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MySpace and Friends Need to Make Money…and Fast!
The numbers are amazing. MySpace’s membership has ballooned from 20 million people in 2005 to 225 million today, an average annual growth rate of 513 percent. Rival Facebook grew at 550 percent a year during the same period. LinkedIn’s rate was 182 percent.
Yet one social networking metric is distinctly underwhelming: the one with a dollar [...]
Clothing of the Future
A hilarious clip depicting what designers sometime around the 1930’s thought fashion in 2000 would look like. Watch for the headlight hair accessory.
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Disney’s Highways of the Future
An excerpt from the 1958 “Disneyland” TV Show episode entitled “Magic Highway USA”. In this last part of the show, an exploration into possible future Transportation technologies is made. It’s hard to believe how little we’ve accomplished on this front since 1958, and how limited the scope for imagining such future technologies has become. Witness [...]
“Fight Club” Musical in the Works (Possibly with Trent Reznor)
When you watch Fight Club, do you think muscles or musicals, testosterone or theater, six packs or stage sets? Fear not, dear reader, because you no longer need to file David Fincher’s 1999 classic solely in each of those former designations.
This is because Fight Club is slated to become a Broadway musical. In a recent [...]
Steve Jobs on Microsoft
Here is the extended version of Steve Jobs talking about Microsoft and their lack of being original. (1996)
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9 Signs You Shouldn’t Hire THAT Web Designer
1. He Calls Himself a “Webmaster”
Any web guy that calls himself a “webmaster” probably isn’t a master of anything. The term “webmaster” has become a translation for the word “amateur.” The web has diversified into so many different realms that webmaster is no longer meaningful (was it ever though?).
2. He’s a FrontPage Expert
Any developer / [...]