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5 Ways the New Digg Profiles Affect the Top 100 Digg Users

Posted by Mustafa

Be Back ShortlyAccording to research by Rand Fishkin of SEOMoz, the top 100 Digg users accounted for 56.41% of all the stories to hit the Digg homepage. The top 20 accounted for 20.81% of front page stories.

These are some of the ways that the fresh batch of changes unrolled by Digg today may affect power Digg users. (more…)

Design and Development for the iPhone: 20 Links to Help You Look Good on the Go

Posted by Mustafa

Apple iPhoneAccording to Apple, iPhone “Developers can create Web 2.0 applications that look and behave just like the applications built into the iPhone, and provide seamless integration with iPhone applications and services” and this post helps you do just that. These days, everyone from Matt Cutts to Craig at A List Apart are talking about developing/designing for the iPhone and it’s time for you to get in on the action.

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15 MySpace Layout Resources That Don’t Suck Like The Rest Of Them

Posted by Justin

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Anyone who’s been to MySpace knows that a majority of the profiles look like something out of Geocities. Who hasn’t seen a profile with sparkling text, tiling images or black text on a dark background?

These 15 MySpace layout resources give you downloadable themes from professional designers as well as supply you with the knowledge needed to create your own custom design. Use these to capture your creativity and help keep bad design out of MySpace.

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This Video from 1967 Accurately Predicted the Web?

Posted by Mustafa

I won’t go as far as saying this was a real “prediction”, but this video by the Philco-Ford corporation was astonishingly accurate about the future of the internet and ecommerce.

Keep in mind that the video was produced in 1967, and it fore casted the way consumers would shop in the year 1999.
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Update: Hosting Issues

Posted by Mustafa

To all the people trying to get a peek at our content, we present to you the Digg effect. A cyclone of visitors has caused some unexpected hosting issues.

Our hosting is being upgraded as we speak, and we will be back stronger than ever.

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Google’s Website Optimizer Makes Testing Landing Pages Simpler than Ever

Posted by Mustafa

For those of you who do not already know what Google Website Optimizer is, “it’s a multivariate web page testing tool that can help you understand which web page designs really work.” In other words, a free landing page optimization tool. (more…)

Photoshop Text Effects Round-Up: 51 Text Effect Tutorials Every Designer Should See

Posted by Justin

Text and the way it looks is a major part of any design. A great design can be cheapened if the text on the page looks wrong. Any logo is almost entirely text. From water to fire, these 51 tutorials will show you how to create any style of text you want.

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Blogger and Blogspot Still Experiencing Some Problems After Outage

Posted by Mustafa

If you use Blogger or Blogspot to blog, or if you read any blogs that do, you probably noticed a little downtime yesterday. There was an outage which affected a vast number of blogs, including Google themeselves who host a number of company blogs using Blogspot.

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Now There is An Easy Way to Embed Google Maps

Posted by Mustafa

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Google has made it alot easier for anyone to add a Google Map to your blog or web site. All you have to do is copy and paste a snippet of code. You no longer need to get an API key, or even know Javascript.

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I posted this from my iPhone

Posted by Mustafa

Blogging on the go. It actually works. I know it could be done before, but not like this.

One word: Wow.

Too bad the activation was a huge pain in the… aside from not being able to transfer my number through the ‘genius’ iTunes activation software.

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