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Inside Look: High Quality Stock Photography at Fotolia

May 12, 2011 By 1 Comment
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Of the many professional stock photography galleries on the web there are many different options to choose from. Professional bloggers and digital artists are always looking for strategic photographs. These can be used in articles, web magazines, website layouts, and tons of other places! The fact comes simply as Fotolia is easily one of the best choices out there. Generally images are charged per download where you may choose a size from small to full-scale. These all come without watermarks … [Read more...]

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Aptana acquired by Appcelerator

January 18, 2011 By 4 Comments
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Aptana, the company behind the popular programming Integrated Development Environment (IDE) Aptana Studio, announced today that they have been acquired by Appcelerator. Aptana has been the choice for many web development professionals for quite some time. It is an advanced open source programming environment built on the very well established Eclipse platform that has advanced greatly in recent years. Their IDE provides advanced functionality for developing HTML, CSS and Javascript … [Read more...]

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New Joomla 1.6 Pushes Enterprise Level Features

January 18, 2011 By 2 Comments
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The new version of the popular Joomla Content Management System (CMS) was released early last week and has already reached over 115k in downloads. 1.6 has been in the making for some time and earlier beta versions have been tested over the last few month. The first release candidate (RC1) was made available for download on December 14th, 2010. Among the many new features that have arrived in this new version come finer access controls, improvements in content categories and removal of the … [Read more...]

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MySpace Updates User Profile Designs and UI Elements

July 16, 2010 By 1 Comment
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The former reigning king of social networking land MySpace is rolling out new user profile designs. The update came from Sean Percival, Myspace's VP of Online Marketing. In a short tweet Sean linked to his online profile, describing it as a "Clean new profile". The design updates do look amazing, and you can't help but realize these are long overdue. MySpace has always looked like a 10 year old's playground when it comes to profile pages frontend and backend. Luckily it appears as though the … [Read more...]

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Exclusive Interview with Relations Manager of DesignFloat

July 14, 2010 By 3 Comments
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At this point most web designers & developers ingrained in the field know about DesignFloat. It's a very popular social news submission service where blog authors or content readers can submit their favorite or most interesting news articles, and the published stories with the most votes hit the front page. It has spurred many similar sites, but DesignFloat has always reigned king. I recently had a fantastic interview with the site's Relations Manager Mortimer. He revealed some … [Read more...]

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Kevin Rose Looking to Step Down as CEO of Digg.com

June 8, 2010 By 4 Comments
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In Episode 11 of The Random Show, Kevin Rose and Tim Ferriss discuss internet venture news, latest ongoings in the tech world and their own personal lives. It's really a great program, and the latest episode showcased some fascinating news. The episode is just over 34 mins. long, but you can catch Kevin's discussion on Digg from this video link. Kevin talks about how since he has stepped up as CEO of Digg, he's been really excited about all of the major overhaul's and changes to the design … [Read more...]

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Newest Pligg Venture BizSugar: Social News for Business

May 24, 2010 By 8 Comments
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I've been an avid fan of Pligg CMS for a long time now. It's an open source project, allowing anyone to download and run their own social news community similar to Digg and Reddit. I have my own case study for Pligg as well, and recently BizSugar has caught my attention. The domain and brand of BizSugar has been included on "web 2.0 site" lists and directories for a long time now. However, the recent re-branding and marketing campaign done by the BizSugar team has launched the site into … [Read more...]

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