by Lex Friedman, Macworld.com   Web developers, rejoice. On Monday, Panic announced that, come Thursday, it will unleash Coda 2 for Mac and Diet Coda for iPad. Coda is Panic’s…

I found these stickers on my desk this morning at work.

Tweet It can be a challenge convincing clients to add new strategies to their existing Web presence. In a perfect world, a client would simply say, "You’re the expert. You know what’s…

May 11, 2012 at 10:16 am PT A 3-D view of San Francisco from C3 TechnologiesBetween 2009 and 2011, Apple acquired three mapping companies in quick succession: Placebase, in 2009; 3-D mapping outfit…

April 23, 2012 As most people do, I suspect, I’ve always used the keyboard that came with my computer. The first computer I ever used on a regular basis belonged to my tech-savvy grandfather.…

The number of online news consumers has grown consistently over the past half-decade, yet not every publication has gotten the same lift as The Atlantic, whose web audience has catapulted from…

Guess how much of LinkedIn’s new iPad app is actually mobile web and not native. Go ahead — guess. We’ve had a lot of fun asking people to guess this over the past couple days.…

Menubar icon replacement for Bartender app, Preview: - DL: (replace via app's Pref > General)

Menubar icon replacement for Bartender app, Preview: - DL: (replace via app's Pref > General)

Though the business of mobile advertising is often criticized for its low prices and minimal revenue, not to mention the awkwardness of cramming ads on a small screen, Google CFO Patrick Pichette…

“Content is king” has been a long-lived mantra of media. And in the 1990’s and early 2000’s, it was true. But over the last several years, the Internet has upheaved the…

Slideshows will continue to serve as a way to juice traffic until the incentives of doing so change: @alexismadrigal

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RT @berkun: How to make things happen: a free excerpt from my bestselling pm book: #pm #management #leadership

But here’s the new thing: I’ve had two separate discussions with friends who run mid-sized internet properties–we’re talking high hundreds of thousands to millions of unique users a month–and they’ve both recently completed heavy analysis on their traffic and come to the somewhat shocking conclusion that the people who actually read comments are a small fraction of one percent of their entire readership.
I’m not talking about people who comment, which is an even smaller percentage. I’m talking about people who read comments, the supposed traffic-and-revenue generating nebulous “community” that supports nascent internet media publications and make all that engineering and moderator staffing worthwhile. Less than a percent. And if you measure the number of people who actually scroll to the end of a post and read all the comments, it’s even less.

RESS is more: http://sunpig.com/martin/archives/2012/03/30/a-responsive-experience-begins-on-the-server.html ht/ @brad_frost
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My answer to: How can I move to a product/program manager type role from a developer programming-centric pos… on @Quora

American Airlines was an early adopter of tablet computers. As a result, it learned a lot about how best to use tablets—and where it could go wrong. The airline, for instance, figured out early…

RESS is more:

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Want to be a better boss? Don't make these mistakes. An ex-manager confesses on all of his rookie missteps, via @Inc .

Ever since The Next Web started taking the idea of digital publishing seriously, one of the things that we knew that we’d eventually run into was a question of how to monetize the content using something that was more effective than simple display advertising.

In the past year, we’ve seen exponential growth and a rise in our position on the Techmeme leaderboard to the point where a decision has to be made. So as of tomorrow, we’re going to introduce a way for TNW’s most loyal readers to be rewarded, while making sure that the casual, passing glancers stay happy too.

Beginning at 12:01 AM GMT, when you visit TNW you’ll see an option to join TNW Pay-to-View. For the first month, the subscription will cost you a mere $0.25, but then a tiered system will go into place in May:

1 – 3 articles per day: $1 per month
4-10 articles per day: $3 per month
Unlimited articles: $5 per month
For those choosing to subscribe to Pay-To-View, we’re going to make it very easy. You’ll pay for 1 year up front, and we’ll automatically renew your subscription for you. If you don’t want to renew, just give us 90 days written notice, mailed to The Next Web offices in Amsterdam, and we’ll be happy to arrange alternate options for you personally.

Bill, our User Experience Lead, traveled to Malmö, Sweden, in November of last year to give a couple of talks at Øredev, a conference focused on “the whole software development…

Last night a group of tweeps, including Steve Streza, collaborated with me to track down a limit in WebKit on the iPad when working with large JPEG files. After reverse engineering the limits and then later being pointed to the documentation about the limits, somebody suggested using a progressive JPEG file based on the observation that the large iPad hero image Apple uses is a progressive JPEG. I’ve not used progressive JPEGs in years, but following that suggestion, I gave it a shot. Lo and behold, it’s indeed the ticket to large JPEG joy on the iPad Retina display.

In January, newly minted Gawker editor A.J. Daulerio announced an experiment: Each day for two weeks, a single staff writer would be assigned “traffic-whoring duty.” [Language alert.] A…

A huge challenge for user-generated websites is overcoming the chicken-and-egg problem : attracting users and contributors when you are starting with zero content. One way to approach this challenge…

Philip Cortes is co-founder of people discovery startup Meeteor. Follow him on Twitter @philipcortes. No clear winner came out of South by Southwest’s battle of people discovery apps.…

If you’ve yet to get your hands dirty with media queries, now is your chance to create your first responsive website design. In this tutorial we’ll look at converting one of my previous…

RT @verge: The decline of print visualized: US newspaper ad sales falling off a cliff

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CSS for grown ups: maturing best practises

RT @lukew: short & sweet.

To accommodate the iPhone and iPad, the magazine created a new cut size, up to 768x1024. But now they'll have to consider adding at least another cut size, perhaps several. Some of this work can be automated, sure, but in many cases, adding new sizes means adding new crops, and that's necessarily manual editorial work. So the growing variety and size of screen resolutions means more work, more disk space, more database management.

Here's One Thing Definitely Wrong About That Mashable-CNN Acquisition Report $TWX by @_dtl

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Congratulations! Your Readability account has been created. You’re moments away from saving anything you find on the web to your iPhone for reading on your terms—anytime, anywhere. If…

Just bought @glennf's Take Control of BBedit, on sale for $5. Love the product & glennf's clarity.

Before we get into the results of the latest detailed look at how U.S. newspapers are faring on the digital revenue front, let’s get one serious qualm out of the way: the Project for…

The Project for Excellence in Journalism at the Pew Research Center has come out with a substantial new report on the efforts of newspapers both large and small to grow their digital businesses, and…

Pew: Papers’ Biggest Revenue Threat Is Inertia; Second Biggest Is Action | paidContent:UK

RT @Techmeme: The Search For A New Business Model (Journalism)

RT @Techmeme: The Search For A New Business Model (Journalism)

Is there sugar hiding in your groceries? Move over salt, there’s a new bad guy in town: sugar. We know that sweet treats and heavily processed food tends to be laden with sugar, but…

For Impatient Web Users, an Eye Blink Is Just Too Long to Wait

Impatient Web Users Flee Slow-Loading Sites -

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Bylines for Web Articles? (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)

Dear Lifehacker, According to the New York Times, interval training is the lifehacker's shortcut to exercise and fitness. If 20 minutes of exercise a day is enough to seriously improve my fitness,…

“We’re starting to do some things differently,” Phil Schiller said to me. We were sitting in a comfortable hotel suite in Manhattan just over a week ago. I’d been summoned a…

Storify has become one of the main ways that people can create stories from social media — the startup says it has been used by 22 of the top 25 news sites in the United States, and that its…