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15 Free eBooks about Social Media Posted on Wednesday, 10th March 2010 in Social Media, Strategy: Whether you’re keeping up with family members or growing your company’s brand, social media has become integral to many aspects of our lives. And it’s getting harder to keep up. Here are some ebooks that can get you started on your path towards social media success or help you kick things up a notch if you’re already active on the social Web. Read "15 Free eBooks about Social Media" more
The Spectrum of Online Friendship Posted on Monday, 8th March 2010 in Social Media: Friends are an extremely important part of most people’s lives. The question Who are your friends?, is continually asked across The Web through applications that form part of the social media phenomenon. If you join Twitter or Facebook, one of the actions you are almost immediately asked is to identify your friends. But relationships in a digital world are not so absolute. Read "The Spectrum of Online Friendship" more
Stanford University Human-Computer Interaction Seminars Posted on Thursday, 11th February 2010 in Design, UX: Human-Computer Interaction Seminar (Seminar on People, Computers, and Design) is a Stanford University course that features weekly speakers on topics related to human-computer interaction design. The seminar is organized by the Stanford HCI Group, which works across disciplines to understand the intersection between humans and computers. Read "Stanford University Human-Computer Interaction Seminars" more
Thinking Mobile? If You Build It, They Will Come Posted on Thursday, 4th February 2010 in Mobile: Smartphone applications are predicted to overtake the desktop software market. So who will win the multi-billion-pound [dollar] application economy, and what are the new rules? Read "Thinking Mobile? If You Build It, They Will Come" more
How to Configure Apache to GZip Your Components Posted on Wednesday, 3rd February 2010 in Development: Compressing your Web components will help speed up your Website. The majority of your visitors will benefit as most all Web browsers support GZip compression. You’ll want to compress all text, which includes HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML, JSON, etc. Read "How to Configure Apache to GZip Your Components" more
How to Set an Expires Header in Apache Posted on Wednesday, 3rd February 2010 in Development: Setting an Expires (or Cache-Control) header in Apache will help speed up your website. I'm running Apache 2.x, and define an expires header for all of the site's static assets (images, stylesheets, and scripts). Read "How to Set an Expires Header in Apache" more
How to Optimise Your Social Media Profile Posted on Monday, 1st February 2010 in Social Media: Social media has become the new buzzword of the web. As businesses wake up to realise the power of social media and the way it can accelerate the Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) process, more and more companies are venturing towards Social Media Optimisation (SMO). Read "How to Optimise Your Social Media Profile" more
Google's 5 Privacy Principles Posted on Thursday, 28th January 2010 in Technology: In honour [sic] of International Data Privacy Day today, 28th January 2010, Google has published their own guidlines on privacy. The timing of this is quite intriguing following the recent hacking attack, supposedly orchestrated by the Chinese authorities, on Google, Yahoo, Adobe and some 20 other major international corporations; whilst there is also the ongoing concern from many quarters about Google is too dominant in many aspects of our online lives. Read "Google's 5 Privacy Principles" more
Adobe ColdFusion 9 License Terms in Plain English Posted on Thursday, 28th January 2010 in Development: If like me, you’ve been struggling to understand the legalese of the Adobe ColdFusion 9 EULA, I have put together a brief and hopefully, helpful summary of what it actually means in in plain English. Read "Adobe ColdFusion 9 License Terms in Plain English" more
User Experience Books Free to Read Online Posted on Wednesday, 27th January 2010 in UX: The truly worldwide reach of the Web has brought with it a new realisation among computer scientists and industry professionals of the enormous importance of usability and user interface design. In the last ten years, much has become understood about what works in user interfaces from a usability perspective, and what does not. Read "User Experience Books Free to Read Online" more