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Who's making a business from social media?

You have a mountain of communications companies hoping to adapt quickly [and] you have businesses who aren?t as motivated to change their internal processes. But will there be a point where businesses take back their external arms for outreach to their

Twittering a backchannel live feed of a city council meeting!

I quickly learned that there was a video feed (which I?m working on finding an archive of), and others were watching from afar. And before I knew it?my twittering turned my timeline into a back channel for the Philadelphia City Council Public Hearing

Skitch and Twitter combo

Skitch lets you take easily take screenshots. Now with Twitter support! "Combine the power of email, image creation/capture devices and micro-blogging platforms like Twitter and you can communicate & collaborate with a powerful visual voice."

Ustream.tv Production tips

How to make a professional show on Ustream

Using Skype With Audio Hijack Pro

And CamTwist

YouTube RSS Feeds

YouTube offers several RSS feeds for categorized groups of videos (such as recently uploaded, top viewed etc) as well as customized feeds for users and tags. To subscribe to categorized groups of videos, simply click on the orange 'RSS' button next to eac

Techcrunch: Is Keyword Search About To Hit Its Breaking Point?

My answer: no. But some argue that " keyword search is already delivering diminishing returns...As the Web swells with more and more data, the predominant way of sifting through all of that data?keyword search?will one day break down."

Not every small business can afford to hire someone to create or maintain a website. So let's go over some relatively easy do-it-yourself ways to build your site, kind of two by two. It just so happens that these are all free, or nearly so.

Kaushik on getting people excited about web analytics

HiPPO?s might not listen to you. Marketers will be full of themselves. You can tell them all you want that dancing monkeys on the home page don?t work. But give them that same feedback from [customer surveys] and bam the dancing monkeys are gone!

FriendFeed, The Centralized Me, and Data Portability

Techcrunch article on the hottest new service. But can't blogs do this better?

Pro Tips from Freshbooks: Improving the usability of your website

Above all else, always try to keep this mantra in mind when designing or developing ? you are not your user. What?s obvious and simple to you may not be for the people who will be actually using your product.

OpenID for your own URI

How to get personal OpenID address

Small Biz Survival

Neat blog "by and for small business people in rural areas and small towns." Bingo! Very practical tips on starting and running new businesses, especially remotely.

SEO for Firefox Extension

Provides inline Google PageRank, Compete data, Del.icio.us links and more.

WordPress: Blog Design and Layout

Guidelines to all things styling

WordPress Theme Development

Description of template and css style sheets for styles.

Tips for Using Delicious In (Doctoral) Research

C Wess Daniels explains my favorite social bookmarking system.

Google's tips for making information universally accessible

You can think of the Google crawler as the world's most influential blind user. The content that matters most to the Googlebot is the content that matters most to the blind user: good, quality text.

More substantiated rumors of immenent Flickr video from TechCrunch

Yahoo PR and other employees are still dead quiet on the subject (I asked every one of them at the party tonight), but the buzz is growing and the leaks haven?t been totally contained. Get ready for Flickr Video. It?s coming. Really.

Script: Open offsite links in new window

Allows for automated off-link window

Slimbox, the ultimate lightweight Lightbox clone · digitalia.be

Slimbox is a 7kb visual clone of the popular Lightbox JS v2.0 by Lokesh Dhakar, written using the ultra compact mootools framework. It was designed to be small, efficient, more convenient and 100% compatible with the original Lightbox v2.

Blog post on using Flickr and Lightbox

Lightbox lets blog users enlarge Flickr photos on a website.

New Mozilla Thunderbird group thinks email is broken

As the number of such interactions grows, and as the number of ways in which we interact grows, the joy that communication can bring is too often replaced by frustration, confusion, or stress.

Practical Theory

Chris Lehman's blog. He's principle of PHiladelphia's new'ish Science Leadership Academy. Interesting stuff going on there.

Interview w/Chris Lehmann, principal of Philadelphia's "School 2.0" experiment

"School 2.0" goes beyond technology. Likewise, a school that truly is designed for the future may also go beyond the literal building itself. Sometimes it shows up in small choices that allow kids and teachers to connect, collaborate, and create.