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Archive for May 2010


Bookmarks for 30 May 2010

YouTube – RSA Animate – Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates usWhat really motivates people? Autonomy, mastery and purpose. An animated accompaniment to Dan Pink. (video psychology management motivation ) Button Color Test: Red beats Green – DIY Marketing Blog"A question we hear a lot at Performable is: “Which button color converts best?” As [...]

Bookmarks for 29 May 2010

YouTube – Sports Illustrated Magazine – HTML5Sports Illustrated magazine prototype for iPad, using HTML5, created for Google I/O 2010: "A collaboration between The Wonder Factory, Google, and SI." (sports_illustrated html5 ipad video ) Is This Really The Future of Magazines or Why Didn’t They Just Use HTML 5?More (frankly unexpected) negativity about Wired's iPad app: [...]

Bookmarks for 27 May 2010

ABCes: Mail breaks 40m monthly unique users and keeps daily lead | Media | guardian.co.uk"Associated Newspapers' website network had just over 2.3 million average daily browsers during April, a 5.33% month on month and 74.5% year on year increase. Mail Online also became the first UK newspaper website to top 40 million monthly uniques in [...]

Bookmarks for 26 May 2010

Matt McAlister » Behind the scenes of the Open Platform’s evolution"When I came to the Guardian two years ago, I brought with me some crazy California talk about open strategies and APIs and platforms. Little did I know the Guardian already understood openness. It’s part of its DNA. It just needed new ways of working [...]

Bookmarks for 24 May 2010

Google’s Push To Speed Up Your Web Site"Google continues to make a big push for improving your website download performance. [...] It is often the simple things that will get you." A few insights into improving site performance. (performance speed google seo ) Inside AdSense: The AdSense revenue share"Today, in the spirit of greater transparency [...]

Bookmarks for 21 May 2010

Guardian Open Platform on Google CodeChris Thorpe's article about the Open Platform and Google AppEngine appears at the top of the Google Code news page. (guardian google open_platform ) Ooh, look what the splendid @steve_wing spotted on the Oxford… on TwitpiciPad ad feat. the Guardian homepage (ipad advert guardian photograph ) Google App Engine Blog: [...]

Bookmarks for 20 May 2010

Ad-funded Guardian could switch off presses by 2015"He may be hard to read, and prone to hedging his bets in public. But listen carefully, and his preferences emerge loud and clear." Wired.co.uk on Alan Rusbridger. (guardian future paywalls newspapers ) New Social Networking Site Changing The Way Oh, Christ, Forget It | The Onion – [...]

Bookmarks for 18 May 2010

First Look: How The UK Times’ New Paid Website Will Look | paidContent:UK (timesonline paywalls news_international ) GQueues"A full-featured task manager for your Google Account™ and Google Apps™ account!" (productivity gtd to_do_lists tools google ) Headline quiz « Enemies of Reason"I keep looking at the two stories, thinking I've made a mistake. Surely they're not [...]

Bookmarks for 15 May 2010

apophenia " Blog Archive " Facebook and "radical transparency" (a rant)An excellent piece on Facebook and privacy, with loads of key links: "At SXSW, I decided to talk about privacy because I thought that it would be the most important issue of the year. I was more accurate than my wildest dreams. For the last [...]

Bookmarks for 11 May 2010

Epic Boobs are fair game, says PCC | Online Journalism Blog"Fascinating decision by the Press Complaints Commission today on a privacy complaint against Loaded magazine that involved images of a then-15-year-old girl’s breasts taken from the social network Bebo." (pcc privacy photography copyright ) Jack of Kent: Paul Chambers Found Guilty"Paul Chambers has been found [...]