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The perfect website design: 10 golden design rules

Follow these 10 simple rules, and your designs will instantly improve. Although, like everything, there are exceptions, doing the opposite of any of these generally results in outdated, cheap or unprofessional design. These are not tips to create nice designs, they’re vital base rules any good design should follow. Look at any good design, including [...]

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Rescuetime; ’cause we all spend too much time workin

Rescue time is a nifty little service that monitors what you do on your computer and reports back, with plenty of trendy graphs and numbers. I tried it out last week, and the insight it gives you on where your time at your computer actually goes is pretty interesting. If you haven’t already, I suggest trying [...]

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Fuser adds your MySpace comments to your Facebook

Way to go for sticking it to Myspace - Fuser, a company who’s main product is an online email account [and more] aggregator, has released a Facebook app that brings in your Myspace comments, messages and bulletins. I’m betting MySpace isn’t gonna be too happy about this, and the issue these apps. is it’s too [...]

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Use Google Analytics? Update your code..

Ok, well you don’t *need* to yet, but Google is rolling out a new tracking code, which will replace the long-lived urchin.js script, to a new, lighter, more customizable ga.js script. The new code will let you benefit from a bunch of new features now, and in the future, as they won’t be rolling out any [...]

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Digg Visualizes Photos

Digg just released a new photo application to Digg Labs for visualizing photos added to it’s new photos section announced last week. See the application here. SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Digg Visualizes Photos", url: "http://ministryofgenius.com/2007/12/20/digg-visualizes-photos/" });

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IE8 to be standards compliant

Ahh. Finally it looks like Internet Explorer will follow the rules. The folks at Microsoft have been working hard (well, they’re probably trying to reduce the pain), and they now pass the infamous ACID2 test (you would see a smiley face on the second link if your browser passes), which even the current version of [...]

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Croud-Sourced QA from uTest

uTest has reaised $1.7m for it’s croud-sourced QA service, which is expected to launch in early 2008. It’s very oDesk’y, and if they pull it off, with the right testers, I can see it becoming popular within it’s niche market, which will likely mostly be web and software firms. QA is something that is better done [...]

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BBC’s New “Web 2.0″ Homepage

The BBC have redesigned their homepage, in a much more web2.0, widgetized theme. You can drag modules around like iGoogle. They’ll also soon be adding the iplayer to the new page (which in case you didn’t know let’s you view the last 7 days worth of BBC programming online for free - streamed online). From a [...]

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Amazon WS Databases coming soon

I’ve just received an email from Amazon about a new service they’ll be rolling out soon. Amazon SimpleDB, which will compliment their growing range of web services, will work with Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) and the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) to provide the ability to store, process and query datasets in the cloud. This [...]

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New Jackass Movie To Be Offered Free Online

“Jackass 2.5″, the latest of the Jackass movies will be released online first, free to view, before following the more traditional route of pay-per-view TV, DVD and iTunes. I think this is a fantastic move by Paramount pictures, who are calling it “the first studio-backed feature film to have its premiere online.†The above video is [...]

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