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After six years big business still has no idea what to do with this blog thing.

Just Add Wetpaint gives businesses an easy way to generate an official community, as has been done with CSI, Dexter, Tmobile, the always-awesome Myth Busters, and even Oracle.

A day after each segment's initial airing, it also will be presented on Quarterlife.com, a social networking site that Zwick and Herskovitz are starting with an aim to connect young creative people to one another and to the resources they need.

Opinions of 17 well respected, international SEO and Link Building professionals on nearly 40 factors that possibly influence the value of a link.

8 tips and 4 main gotchas when creating print stylesheets in our more enlightened era.

How to setup a simple promotion system using CruiseControl.Net and NAnt.

"Front end web development has traditionally been viewed as rather "lightweight"engineering. Around the world, companies assumed that anyone could write HTML [...]". Yahoo's front-end engineering training.

"We predict internet advertising to pass three milestones over the next three years," ZenithOptimedia's forecast said. "We expect it to overtake radio advertising in 2008; to attain a double-digit share of global advertising in 2009; and to overtake magaz

"Fiddler allows you to inspect all HTTP Traffic, set breakpoints, and "fiddle" with incoming or outgoing data."

Platform 4, best described as the geeky arm of UK TV station Channel 4, has announced a widget contest at the WidgetyGoodness conference in Brighton today.

A streamlined Money Management application for UK Freelancers, Contractors and Consultants who want to escape spreadsheet hell.

There are a number of factors that contribute to the accessibility and usability of forms, including layout, labeling and grouping.

"Science groups for young professionals who don’t wear white coats, like the year-old Secret Science Club at Union Hall, are cropping up in bars and bookstores all over the country." Great idea!

For millions of people the ground is a dangerous place to be. Please visit our Dangerous Ground website to see our short film; find out if we could get around 50,000m² of London without touching the ground.

Some tools to trim the fat and speed up our sites.

Converts bitmap images to vector images - it's an online auto-tracer.

We’re still making cutting edge shit, man, it’s wild shit, man, it’s raw, I love that ghetto perspective on space and time and the future, because it’s warped like a motherfucker, and as long as they’re making it, I’ll put it out.

— The Wire: Mike Banks interview

"Many Chinese labels, nimble and unencumbered by tradition, have adapted to the contaminated marketplace in ways that Western companies are struggling with. Viewing CDs as a loss leader they routinely sign groups to all-encompassing contracts that allow t

The video content includes a few adverts that play in-show similar to standard TV broadcasts. All of the available films are high quailty and in surround sound.

You can’t skip the ads or remove them without making the film unwatchable. But it does mean the file could go anywhere on the Net and still show adverts based on the user’s preferences when the registered to get the codec.

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These special versions of Safari use the original Web Kit framework that came with them, bundled inside the application. They will mimic original Safari rendering and javascript behaviours.

Create free and beautiful PDF invoices in a snap.

"The iPhone has become a more effective means of targeted mobile advertising campaigns than regular phones; the integration with Google Maps and the display of video provides a richer experience for both the viewer, and for the company seeking to expose t

Cohen credits DVD sales as the force behind Futurama's return. "This new revenue stream saved our neck," he says. "A few years from now, when Internet speeds are better, maybe one person buys it and shares it with a hundred of their friends."

Details/rant on BBC's technical infrastructure.

The BBC has commissioned a new daytime Australian soap after losing the long-running show Neighbours in a bidding war with Five.

UNIQLO JUMP

I’m a sucker for these UNIQLO campaigns. This time they’ve also put the parts on flickr and youtube.

John Oxton and Jon Hicks, broadcasting from their ex-RAF base office in Upper Rissington. Think of it as a web-geek version of Gardeners Question Time!

Facebook doesn't exist to be good in the sense that Google wants (wanted?) to be [..] Your network of friends and the data you share amongst them happens to be a nutrient-rich bath in which advertisements can flourish and spawn.

Musicians upload music and listeners decide which songs go on the homepage.

Mmmm.

VoiceOver, the screen reader for Apple’s OS X, has undergone a major update. This article looks at the new functions, and what that means for people browsing websites.

What we can do to support IE6 users whilst taking full advantage of transparency for the majority of a site’s visitors.

The lesson learnt by MTV Networks subsidary, Comedy Central, when it made the entire archive of “The Daily Show” available for streaming online, is that Internet TV viewing can lead to more traditional television viewing.

90% of everything is always crap. The more stuff there is, the greater the 10% pile becomes. All we need are effective filtering systems to sort what we consider to be wheat from what we consider to be chaff.

A jQuery plugin to make embedding Google Analytics simpler for typical web sites.

"Rossi declined to disclose how much Verizon paid for the "30 Rock" integration but said that in addition to fees, it provided marketing support for the show with a co-branded ad in Maxim magazine and promotional content on VerizonWireless.com."

"Today, [Google] updated its mobile maps to pinpoint your locations by triangulating between cell towers". Hurrah! Results suck for me, though.