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New marketing in 4 easy steps

Design and Business Strategy Have One More Thing in Common - Both Are in the Business of Dealing with White Space - Marketing & Strategy Innovation Blog
Managing the white space often requires a dual focus – exploring the intersection of emerging trends and at the same time defining how the convergence of multiple technologies […]

Writing this blog will kill me

In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop - New York Times
To be sure, there is no official diagnosis of death by blogging, and the premature demise of two people obviously does not qualify as an epidemic. There is also no certainty that the stress of the work contributed to their deaths. […]

API Design

Ajaxian » Flinging APIs in the Highlands
Make Your API

Prodable
Hackable
* Multilingual
Open
Transparent
Obvious

Really great little slide show about a technical subject. No “Death By Powerpoint” here.

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Seth Godin: How to sound smart on the Internet

Seth Godin wrote a nice little write-up for mom and grandma about how they can know what they’re saying about the internet.
I can’t wait to see what I don’t understand in 20 years.

Microsoft: Adding 5 buttons when you didn’t need any

Check out the video below.
“With a Windows Mobile phone you have some other options. You could find some dinner for example… Get local business listing, directions, even traffic. First: choose your city… then choose categories… now here comes the difficult part.” [emphasis on here is my own]
On my iphone (or google maps […]

Ideaosphere: dangerous

Buzz Canuck: The Quality of the Blogosphere Careeens Downhill, The Need for an Ideaosphere
What do we do to stop this erosion of social media intellect? Somebody like TED needs to create an “Ideaosphere” that includes blogs at all levels of the social media caste system that are putting forward great ideas and content. Hopefully, […]

Interesting Open Source Social Application Server

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What is Ringside Social Application Server?
Open source social application server, providing every request with the context of the user, user data and the users network. Thus giving every application the capability to be more social. Combining your application with Ringside Social Application Server can turn an application into a social […]

The Story or the Work?

Seth Godin just put out a nice post titled: Which comes first (why stories matter) .
After seeing him at NYU and plowing through Meatball Sundae (which I have some gripes with… but that’s for a later post). I think he’s changed around what the business strategy will be for Jump Canopy (which makes […]

Two Excellent Articles at A List Apart

Findability, Orphan of the Web Design Industry and Sign Up Forms Must Die.
I’ve been thinking about “initial infrastructure” lately. Both of these ideas are much easier to implement in a green field environment and both have huge payoffs. Something to note as you build your next web-app.

Great RocketBoom video

This is excellent. Makes me want to watch RocketBoom again: