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Designing The Holy Search Box: Examples And Best Practices | Design Showcase | Smashing Magazine

On content-heavy websites, the search box is often the most frequently used design element. From a usability point of view, irritated users use the search function as a last option when looking for specific information on a website. If a website’s content is not organized properly, an efficient search engine is not only helpful but crucial, even for basic website navigation. In fact, search is the user’s lifeline to mastering complex websites. The best designs offer a simple search box on the home page and play down advanced search and scoping.

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january 2009 by vielmetti

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Viewing Large Images - OpenLayers, GSIV, ModestMaps, DeepZoom, and Python « Itinerant Source

One problem unlike all the other tools mentioned here, which have python based tile cutting implementations, Deep Zoom was utilizing a Windows only based program to process images and cut tiles. I had a couple of hundred gigabytes of images to cut, and not a windows system in sight. But based on this excellent blog write up by Daniel Gasiencia, I constructed a python program using PIL that can be used as a command line tool or library for constructing Deep Zoom Compatible image pyramids. It can be found here, hopefully its useful to others. As a bonus, it runs in a fraction of the memory (1/6 by my measurements) needed by the GSIV image tile cutter and faster as well ( 100 images in 5m vs 1.25hr). Unfortunately the Seadragon Ajax Library is not opensource, but non commercial usage seems to be okay with the license, and i’ll give it over to some lawyers to figure it out.

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december 2008 by vielmetti

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HTML 5

The value of a property with a name name at any instant is the value of the name-value pair with name name in the list returned from the algorithm for getting the list of name-value pairs at that instant. (see also: buffalo buffalo buffalo)

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december 2008 by vielmetti

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gregdingle's genetify at master — GitHub

An unobtrusive way to A/B test and optimize webpages

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december 2008 by vielmetti

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Amazon SimpleDB

A traditional, clustered relational database requires a sizable upfront capital outlay, is complex to design, and often requires a DBA to maintain and administer. Amazon SimpleDB is dramatically simpler, requiring no schema, automatically indexing your data and providing a simple API for storage and access. This approach eliminates the administrative burden of data modeling, index maintenance, and performance tuning. Developers gain access to this functionality within Amazon’s proven computing environment, are able to scale instantly, and pay only for what they use.

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december 2008 by vielmetti

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Google App Engine - Google Code

main page for appengine stuff

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november 2008 by vielmetti

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LukeW | Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks -a Web design & usability book by Luke Wroblewski

Forms make or break the most crucial online interactions: checkout (commerce), registration (community), data input (participation and sharing), and any task requiring information entry. In Web Form Design, Luke Wroblewski draws on original research, his considerable experience at Yahoo! and eBay, and the perspectives of many of the field's leading designers to show you everything you need to know about designing effective and engaging Web forms.

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november 2008 by vielmetti

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Amazon Web Services Developer Community : Scalable Media Hosting with Amazon S3

Blue Origin is one small company with a big idea that successfully scaled its web site using Amazon S3. On January 2, 2007, the company posted information and videos on its web site about a test launch for a new vertical take-off, vertical-landing vehicle. Within the next day, the news was covered by both SlashDot and Boing Boing, sending a tremendous amount of traffic to its web site. With its media files stored in Amazon S3, it was able to instantly scale and handle the 3.5 million requests and 758 GBs in bandwidth in a single day.

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october 2008 by vielmetti

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Code: Flickr Developer Blog » Flickr Engineers Do It Offline

Currently, we have ten job queues running in parallel. At creation, each job is randomly assigned a queue and inserted — usually at the end of the queue, but it is possible for certain high-priority tasks to jump to the front. The queues each have a master process running on dedicated hardware. The master is responsible for fetching jobs from the queue, marking them as in-process, giving them to local children to do the work, and marking them as complete when the child is finished. Each task has an ID, task type, arguments, status, create/update date, retry count, and priority. Tasks detect their own errors and either halt or put themselves back in the queue for retry later, when hopefully things have gotten better. Tasks also lock against the objects they’re running on (like accounts or groups) to make sure that other tasks don’t stomp on their data. Masters have an in-memory copy of the queue for speed, but it’s backed by mysql for persistent storage, so we never lose a task.

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september 2008 by vielmetti

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A List Apart: Articles: Mapping Memory: Web Designer as Information Cartographer

The redesign of my law school’s website is not unlike the creation of a rhetorician’s memory dwelling. Built from the collective memory of our past and current students and faculty, the website is an abstraction—a map—of that memory, created to persuade prospective students to apply, current students to collaborate, and alumni to remain engaged with the school. The crucial difference is that the law school’s memory dwelling, unlike Quintilian’s, has more than one inhabitant. Our users, by continually adding to and altering the school’s collective memory, contribute to the production of the website—the abstraction of that memory. Instead of imposing an architecture upon users from above, we should use the flow of their interactions with the site and with each other to determine the form of this memory map.

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august 2008 by vielmetti

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Amazon Web Services Blog: Cloudbursting - Hybrid Application Hosting

Earlier this week my colleague Deepak Singh pointed me to a blog post written by Thomas Brox Røst. In the post, Thomas talks about how he combined traditional hosting with an EC2-powered, batch mode page regeneration system. His site (Eventseer) contains over 600,000 highly interconnected pages. As traffic and content grew, serving up the pages dynamically became prohibitively expensive. Renerating all of the pages on a single server would have taken an unacceptably long 7 days, and even longer as the site became more complex. Instead, Thomas used a cloudbursting model, regenerating the pages on an array of 25 Amazon EC2 instances in just 5 hours (or, as he notes, "roughly the cost of a pint of beer in Norway."). There's some more information about his approach on the High Scalability blog. Thomas has also written about running Django on EC2 using EBS.

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august 2008 by vielmetti

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Selenium IDE: Selenium IDE

Selenium IDE is an integrated development environment for Selenium tests. It is implemented as a Firefox extension, and allows you to record, edit, and debug tests. Selenium IDE includes the entire Selenium Core, allowing you to easily and quickly record and play back tests in the actual environment that they will run.
Selenium IDE is not only recording tool: it is a complete IDE. You can choose to use its recording capability, or you may edit your scripts by hand. With autocomplete support and the ability to move commands around quickly, Selenium IDE is the ideal environment for creating Selenium tests no matter what style of tests you prefer.

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august 2008 by vielmetti

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Mobile Emulators | dev.mobi

DotMobi strongly encourages the use of emulators during the development of any mobile site since they allow you to get a rough idea of how the site will look without having to purchase multiple devices or incurring data charges.

(i.e. see just how crappy a lot of mobile browsers are, and understand why it took the iPhone to make people actually use a mobile phone.)

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august 2008 by vielmetti

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Query Generator : Tech Center : NPR

The Query Generator is a flexible tool to help users create their API calls. You must register before you can see any results from API calls, even in the Query Generator.

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july 2008 by vielmetti

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web developer seo cheat sheet

read through the list to understand the first dozen recommendations from your seo firm. also: before you write web software, read through the list. thank you.

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june 2008 by vielmetti

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COBOL ON COGS

or, "add two to cobol"

COBOL WEBDEV ADD-TWO-TO-COBOL
april 2008 by vielmetti

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Dogme

If the designer cannot code the design, then he is not the designer.

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april 2008 by vielmetti

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How Game Mechanics Can Make Your App More Fun - O'Reilly Conferences

The five game mechanics discussed were collectiing things, earning points, providing feedback, exchanges, and cusomization.

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march 2008 by vielmetti

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Introducing Django

Adrian and I developed Django to allow us to create reasonably complex database driven web applications in as little time as possible.

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march 2008 by vielmetti

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Tim Berners-Lee on home page design, 1991

Good home page design is an art -- like the cover of a magazine, or a quick-reference card. Of course it depends on the readership. The CERN home page has to start with the CERN things to minimise the number of keystokes/clicks for the largest number

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february 2008 by vielmetti

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Developer | Slider | Measure Map

a user interface widget for picking a date range, provided by measure map (a piece of google). nicely done, and this deserves to replace a bunch of yucky date pickers.

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january 2008 by vielmetti

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Pipes and Filters for the Internet

Yahoo!'s new Pipes service is a milestone in the history of the internet. It's a service that generalizes the idea of the mashup, providing a drag and drop editor that allows you to connect internet data sources, process them, and redirect the output.

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november 2007 by vielmetti

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A System for integrating Web Services into a Global Knowledge Base

The graph provided by a single site is referred to as its local graph and the knowledge base that emerges from the aggregation of these local graphs is referred to as the global graph. Graph super-positioning aggregates the global graph from the local gra

ggg giant-global-graph spider local-graph mashups soap webdev
november 2007 by vielmetti

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Subtraction: Something’s Missing in Web Design

boring web designs actually let some users accomplish the tasks that people set out to do, so they proliferate. that plus lots of templates = boring.

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november 2007 by vielmetti

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Understanding Search Usability - Shari Thurow

Why do people do what they do before and after they arrive on your web site? By objectively observing target audience members and carefully analyzing their search behavior, web site owners can improve their web sites

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november 2007 by vielmetti

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Blueprint Grid CSS Generator

mitten's talk on blueprint at arbcamp was a hit.

arbcamp css design via:mitten quadrille grid webdev
october 2007 by vielmetti

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t' ... You've Tried the Rest, Now Try Alfredo's for a Change Pizza By Alfredo ... Scranton's 'Fines

some television reference that I didn't catch; 1997-era web design complete with awesome flying pizza cursor. "best viewed in netscape 4".

pizza party-like-its-1997 tv webdev design
october 2007 by vielmetti

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twitterfeed.com : feed your blog to twitter - post RSS to twitter automatically

automated RSS-to-twitter feeder; for more than just blog information. (hm, this is something you would think that feedburner might do?)

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october 2007 by vielmetti

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Seth's Blog: How to create a good enough website

web design became a sacred art, one done only by the blessed few. In addition, it became expensive, because design changes got in the same queue as programming changes.

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october 2007 by vielmetti

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Don't Decorate, Communicate!

In our culture, we're trained from the moment we start reading to scan from left to right, starting from the top left of the page and working down to bottom right. We develop a natural rhythm as we do it, with our eyes moving swiftly to the end of each li

decorate design essay via:oblique simplicity webdesign webdev
october 2007 by vielmetti

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Shirky: In Praise of Evolvable Systems

Centrally designed protocols start out strong and improve logarithmically. Evolvable protocols start out weak and improve exponentially. It's dinosaurs vs. mammals, and the mammals win every time. The Web is not the perfect hypertext protocol, just the be

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september 2007 by vielmetti

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The Nearctic Spider Database

Greenland, Canada, the United States, parts of Mexico, and Bermuda are collectively home to 70 families, 674 genera, and approximately 4,500 species of spiders. A continuous inventory of their identity and geographic location is critical to the management

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september 2007 by vielmetti

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Sunlight Foundation - Earmark map

mashup with earmark information

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september 2007 by vielmetti

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Banner Blindness: Old and New Findings (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)

When you advertise through an advertising network, your ads will get fewer fixations than if you contract directly with the publisher for a specific placement and design your creative to fit that spot. As a result, you should bid less for network ads than

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september 2007 by vielmetti

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Seam Carving

demo of algorithm that resizes photos by clipping a pixel at a time from "seams"

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august 2007 by vielmetti

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SEOmoz | 5 Books all Search Marketers Should Read

reading list for search engine marketing

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august 2007 by vielmetti

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pair Networks - World Class Web Hosting - pair Networks - Support Resources - System Notices - FreeBSD 6.2 Upgrade

server upgrade

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july 2007 by vielmetti

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Facebook Sugar: How to Build Successful Facebook Applications

embed the viral distribution into the application. 7000 signups per hour.

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june 2007 by vielmetti

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johannes ries / WP-FileManager

a plugin for wordpress that adds file management tools. (do you know of one similar, different, or better?) kthx

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june 2007 by vielmetti

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unicode eye chart

with notes for the optometrist

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june 2007 by vielmetti

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Coding Horror: Designing for Informavores, or, Why Users Behave Like Animals Online

information smells like garlic fries

behavior flow foraging berrypicking usability webdev via:britta
june 2007 by vielmetti

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Web Content Management For Marketing - Web CMS - Hosted CMS - SaaS CMS - SEO CMS - ColdFusion CMS

hot banana cms. for reference

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june 2007 by vielmetti

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Angsuman's Authenticated WordPress Plugin - Password Protection for Your WordPress Blog

a plugin to hide your wordpress blog, e.g. when you are developing it before it's launched.

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june 2007 by vielmetti

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A List Apart: Articles: The Perfect 404

Welcome to the world of the Error 404 page. You’ve requested a page — either by typing a URL directly into the address bar or clicking on an out-of-date link and you’ve found yourself in the middle of cyberspace nowhere. A user-friendly website will

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june 2007 by vielmetti

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Google Calendar: Event Publisher Guide

how to plop calendar events on your site

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may 2007 by vielmetti

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The Art & Science of CSS - SitePoint Books

CSS-based design doesn’t need to be boring. The Art & Science of CSS brings together a talented collection of designers who will show you how to take the building blocks of your web site’s design (such as headings, navigation, forms, and more) and bri

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may 2007 by vielmetti

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Peter Van Dijck’s Guide to Ease » Blog Archive » The top 10 presentations on scaling websites: twitter, Flickr, Bloglines, Vox and more.

if you have these problems, you are lucky; and if you know how to solve them, you can capitalize on your opportunties.

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april 2007 by vielmetti

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Social Software Building Blocks / nForm / Customer Insight, Strategy, Design and Development

social software uxagons! must dig into this.

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april 2007 by vielmetti

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Wordpress Hack / Tutorial: creating a “dynamic sticky” at MaxPower

keep one of a certain class of postings at the top, and rotate out when the next in the class posts

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april 2007 by vielmetti

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Firebug :: Firefox Add-ons

Version 1.03 — April 4, 2007 — 291 KB / This fixes a security exploit.

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april 2007 by vielmetti

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InfoTangle :: Information Design for the New Web :: April :: 2007

the web has changed - "web 2.0' and all that - this is a good description of the common design themes in this era.

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april 2007 by vielmetti

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John Manoogian III » Blog Archive » (The Only) Ten Things To Know About CSS

start out just styling things with the color red, and then when you have it figured out do more. +9 other tips

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march 2007 by vielmetti

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Google Now Reporting Anchor Text Phrases
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march 2007 by vielmetti

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☄ Cometd - The Scalable Comet Framework
☄ comet webdev comet-is-one-of-my-favorite-unicode-characters
march 2007 by vielmetti

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Ann Arbor e-commerce firm Fry Inc. buys San Francisco consulting unit

Pinnacle Rock is a 35-person consulting firm that provides services to multi-channel retailers, catalogers and consumer goods manufacturers.

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march 2007 by vielmetti

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Brendan's Roadmap Updates: The Open Web and Its Adversaries

on the difference between corporate developed software with fixed behavior, and openly developed code with its unpredictable charm

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march 2007 by vielmetti

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the Digital me: Fun with UNICODE and Mirroring Character
fun-with-unicode-mirroring-character unicode via:revgeorge security hacks webdev language (‮‮(
march 2007 by vielmetti

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Facebook Developers | Facebook Query Language

hm, query language for facebook similar to SQL

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february 2007 by vielmetti

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Tantek's Thoughts — 2007 February

In short, the lower the cognitive load of your interface, the more users will use your interface, and the more often they will use it.

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february 2007 by vielmetti

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Site Explorer APIs from Yahoo! Search Web Services
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february 2007 by vielmetti

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Masters Of Online Marketing
google interviews seo web webdev mp3
february 2007 by vielmetti

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Masters Of Online Marketing

perry marshall mp3 interview series. not quite a podcast, because you have to give up your name to get info (and you will get more marketing directed at you as a result)

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february 2007 by vielmetti

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