Apr 13
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How Twitter’s owners and top executives say Twitter was founded is different than how Twitter was actually founded.
Mainly, the official version leaves out the role of a major cofounder. Some early Twitter investors also wonder if it also leaves out a scandal.
Dec 10
Each year, hundreds of companies pay 28-year-old Jason Sadler to wear T-shirts with their logos — and then promote his fashion statement through Facebook, Twitter and other social media. Consider it the modern-day sandwich board.
Much easier than developing websites. I missed the boat on this one 
Sep 27
business, internet No Comments
It’s amazing how easily a person can tell stories about the early days of the Internet and make it sound like they went to school in a barn using a horse-drawn carriage to get there.
It was not that long ago that CD-ROMs flooded snail-mail boxes promising 1,000 free hours, the lowest price or the fastest speed on your 56k modem. Whatever happened to this practice, these companies, or those annoying start-up CDs?
I used to collect the AOL CD’s probably still have a bunch in a box somewhere.
Jun 22
Over the past year, we’ve introduced a mobile web app, an integrated voicemail player in Gmail, the ability to use Google Voice with your existing number and more. Over a million of you are now actively using Google Voice, and many of the features released over the past year (like SMS to email and our Chrome extension) came as a result of your suggestions, so thanks!
Now it open for everyone. Get your phone number now.
Link: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/google-voice-for-everyone.html
Mar 26
The “Shrek” players were reportedly able to demand upward of $10 million each for the latest (and last) Shrek film, “Shrek Forever After”, which hits theaters in 3-D (natch) this summer. Myers raked in about $108,000 a minute for his work last time around. As for Murphy, the $10 million to play Donkey is good money, but it’s just half of what he could earn on a live-action comedy.
Well, my clients will be receiving a letter that my prices are going up .
Link:
http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/forbes-a-list-animation.html
Dec 15
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Dec 14
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GIFs of spinning @s on the “Contact us” page. Common usability mistakes for the sake of visual appeal. Splash pages. Fancy search box. No whitespace. Music on page load. Home page banner of a jigsaw-puzzle globe with a piece missing. Sometimes you just know that what a client is requesting is wrong and that you have to find a way to tell them. But how?
Sometimes you just can’t and you have to weigh whether you want the client. Personally I find it very hard to do things which I know are an incorrect move for their website which could lead to a negative impact on their business. When this comes up I usually turn a project down.
Dec 03
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One huge list of courseware geared towards web developers / designs / freelancers.
Nov 29
Close to severing ties with Time Warner and fresh off announcing that they plan to cull almost a third of their work force by the end of the year, AOL has debuted–why not?–a new logo and branding campaign. The new logo has a variety of backgrounds, but always the new name in a sans-serif font: “Aol.” Yes, with the period.
Why?
Nov 16
Interesting the way Google makes you ‘think’ during an interview in way that you might not be expecting. You can tell they want intelligent people who can think outside of the box.
How many questions could you answer?
The questions:
http://www.businessinsider.com/…
The answers:
http://www.businessinsider.com/…
Nov 12
Track time, log expenses, invoice clients, keep track of account receivables and revenue. Harvest lets you do it all, so you can run your business with style and ease.
A great way to get organized if you’re the type that likes your data in the clouds.
Nov 05
This is a site where people can create and share interactive forms — forms that can be used by others to assemble detailed output documents with just a few clicks of the mouse.The Tree Form Machine makes it easy to create:
* Legal documents — by mixing and matching relevant paragraphs.
* Business form letters — tailored to your customers.
* Software licenses and EULAs — with just the terms you care about.
This is a very cool idea and worth checking out. Creating complex forms and documents where sections are often altered based on different criteria becomes a breeze.
Try it!
Sample using the BSD License:
http://www.tfdocs.com/form/bsd-license
Oct 27
business, google, veign No Comments
Until yesterday, signing up for a Google Voice account required you to pick a new phone number — not a pleasant option for those who have kept the same digits for years. Now Google has enabled users to keep their existing phone numbers and get (most of) the features Google Voice offers, including Google’s excellent voicemail service.
I have been using Google Voice for a couple of months now and now its powerful but I just haven’t switched to the phone number yet. Still trying to decide exactly what to use my Google Voice number for. Veign’s business number?
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