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10 links
in May 2009
May 29, 2009
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A List Apart: Articles: In Defense of Eye Candy
Hallelujah for Stephen P. Anderson's article on the value of aesthetics. He's currently my hero.
by: Jodi Wing | tags: aesthetics, design, interface, psychology, ui, usability, webdesign
May 21, 2009
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Website Optimization Best Practices, speed up your website load
This is a nice checklist.
by: Matt DeClaire | tags: development
May 19, 2009
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The Ugly Truth About the Web (Linux Magazine)
Using Cufón to embed nice fonts in your website.
by: Josh Orum | tags: fonts, webdesign, webdevelopment
May 18, 2009
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Luxury vs. premium (Seth's Blog)
Interesting note by Seth Godin. Luxury goods are expensive because of scarcity. Premium brands are expensive because they are better.
by: Josh Orum | tags: business, marketing, positioning
May 17, 2009
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answers to questions from Twitter on teen practices (apophenia)
Fascinating look at teen behavior with regards to online media, email, cell phones, and related topics from a researcher.
by: Josh Orum | tags: interesting
May 15, 2009
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More SideJacking (Errata Security)
Sidejacking is a technique for stealing a website visitor's session information.
by: Josh Orum | tags: security, webdevelopment
May 11, 2009
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Crucial Concepts Behind Advanced Regular Expressions
I use regular expressions all the time. This is a great article to help take it up a notch.
by: Matt DeClaire | tags: programming, regex
May 8, 2009
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How to make a movie of a car accident (VIDEO COPILOT)
This blew me away. I'm pretty familiar with Photoshop, and how easy it is to make fake photos, but I'm not super familiar with video. This shows you, step by step, how to create a movie of a car accident.
by: Josh Orum | tags: howto, video
May 4, 2009
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A simple categorization of client-side web application frameworks (lisp service)
Interesting categorization
by: Josh Orum | tags: javascript, webdevelopment -
Early Results: Labels Losing Money on iTunes Variable Pricing (Digital Music News)
When will the labels finally figure out that people simply aren't going to pay that much for music going forward? That their business models, which worked well for a little while, just aren't going to work in the future? That they would be wise to focus on delivering quality music for less, not crappy music for more? Arg.
by: Josh Orum | tags: interesting