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Interview with Digg-Clone for Designers DesignBump

July 17, 2009 By 16 Comments
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Digg was the first social news site to really skyrocket into popularity, gaining millions of pageviews a day to the site. No doubt, there would be similar sites in separate niches on the web. The first of these niche sites in the web design category was Design Float, which has had many issues with databases and keeping the site up and running properly. Therefore, a new competitor has stepped up to the plate: DesignBump. DesignBump promotes the most popular articles about web, graphic, and … [Read more...]

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Interview with Steven Snell of DesignM.ag

July 13, 2009 By 9 Comments
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Website Design has become one of the most popular career paths, especially with many teenagers taking entry-level classes in high school, and with so many available resources to learn from. There are tons of web design blogs, galleries, news sites, and much more. However, there are only a select few that actually post up quality content, update frequently, and are run my professional web designers who can teach us all a thing or two. I approached Steven Snell, the creator of two very popular … [Read more...]

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Interview with Indaba Music: The Online Music-Making Community

July 12, 2009 By 5 Comments
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Are you a musician looking to find others to jam with, write music with, or just talk to? Or maybe you have a band, but want to find others who are writing the same kind of stuff? Yeah, listen to their tunes, kick back, maybe even share some wisdom with each other. Well look no further, as Indaba Music can cure all your problems. A social networking site at heart, Indaba Music is an online community of musicians, recorders, sound/audio producers, and anyone with a love for sound. You can … [Read more...]

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Express your 3D Avatars with Frenzoo

July 11, 2009 By 1 Comment
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Creating your own avatar online has become a popular trend. Everybody wants to have their own personal expression to make them stand out from the crowd. There is a different type of communication over the internet, and you need something to make yourself stand out next to everyone else. Most people have unique username's on websites, but avatars are a great way to stand out with style. With Frenzoo, you can create your own 3D avatars right through your web browser. All you need is a little … [Read more...]

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Link Your Social Networking Profiles Together with SocialFollow

July 6, 2009 By 8 Comments
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Social Follow is a cool new web application that combines all of your other social networking and social bookmarking profiles. I'm sure we all have accounts on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Digg, and many other profiles around the net. With SocialFollow, you are able to combine all of these profiles into one handy button. These are great for posting to your blog, sharing in your forum sigs, or posting it anywhere around the web! Joining SocialFollow is completely free, and it's a really neat … [Read more...]

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Interview with Adobe’s Primary Developer of Rich Internet Applications Mark Anders

July 5, 2009 By 2 Comments
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Mark Anders is a senior principal scientist at Adobe Systems, and one of his core responsibilities is to make Flash the platform for building the next generation of rich internet applications. Prior to Adobe's acquisition of Macromedia, Anders started and led the Flex Builder Team, but he is probably best known for his work at Microsoft, where during a decade-long career he led the creation of ASP.NET. Anders recently addressed the "Flash on the beach" conference for Flash designers and … [Read more...]

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Bet on Anything You Like with Flusta.com

July 4, 2009 By 6 Comments
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Flusa is a new web 2.0 application that allows you to place bets on almost anything you like. Well, not even almost, you can create your own topic and have anyone you want place bets on it, sort of like a "social gambling" website. Ranging from topics of cutest boys to the best next-gen gaming console, Flusta has it all with a easy-to-use user interface and a great concept in mind. I got an interview with the site's creator Bruno Szajer, and I talked with him a little bit about the site, … [Read more...]

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