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"To accelerate your learning, we've come up with a list of a few light-hearted recommendations around building good social applications."
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The 7 Bad E-Mail Habits that Make People Want to Kill You
"Here are seven particularly bad habits, and how you can fix them so people don’t want to kill you"
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Compendium of idea generation methods
"Building on Martin Leith's original work, I would like this to be the most comprehensive collection of idea generation methods on the Internet."
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"Mayor Bloomberg can't reach the target of reducing carbon emissions by 30% by 2030 without you. You can make a difference. We all can."
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How To Visit New York: The Basics
"To get in the right mindset about visiting New York City, there are a few things you need to really take to heart, and once you've absorbed these lessons, the rest of your trip will be much less stressful and a lot more fun."
How to hire the best people you've ever worked with
Some tips on how to hire for startups.
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Experience As Story Telling - Ira Glass
"What is a story in it’s purest form? The power of the anecdote. Raising questions at the beginning, constantly raising questions and answering them."
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10ton's Top 10: The Guide to Great Online Video
"The web is not TV. It’s a different medium with different rules. What used to work, won’t. Read on, and you’ll find our philosophy and our ideas about what does."
How to win at rock-paper-scisssors
"The top secrets to winning at RPS  courtesy of Graham Walker, Director of Management of the World RPS Society"
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Good tips for presenting.
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Seven steps to remarkable customer service
"Here are seven things we learned about providing remarkable customer service. I’m using the word remarkable literallyâ€â€the goal is to provide customer service so good that people remark."
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"The way to inspire a designer is to give them the message and feeling you want to convey, and the freedom to convey it in a fresh, new way."
PHPlist: Email Confirmation not arriving
I spent hours trying to figure why the confirmation email wasn't arriving. Turns out I just needed to "make sure you have [quote]define ("TEST",0);[/quote] in your 'config/config.php' file." So simple . . .
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Belief & Technique For Modern Prose: List of Essentials
30 suggestions from Jack Kerouac
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The difference between strategy and tactics
"If you are tired of hammering your head against the wall, if it feels like you never are good enough, or that you're working way too hard, it doesn't mean you're a loser. It means you've got the wrong strategy."
Guy Kawasaki offers up some tips.
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Seven Lessons Learned for Startups
"The following is a list of those quotes which were often repeated to me . . . they are the ones most significant to me and those which I believe can be generalized and applied to startup situations."
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Unleash your potential and the ultimate opportunity
"I started looking around for people and things that might help answer the questions that I was asking: What would constitute the next chapter of my life? How could I re-center my focus and clarity?"
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10 Steps to Guarantee You Make the Digg Front Page
Everything you could possibly need to know.
"Muster up all the enthusiasm your body contains and let it shine. Enthusiasm is the key to success."
Quick Tips on Corporate Blogging
From Organic and their blog Three Minds
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"You’ve got to find what’s interesting in everything, you’ve got to be good at noticing things, you’ve got to be good at listening. If you find people (and things) interesting, they’ll find you interesting."
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Put Any YouTube Video On Your iPod
Lots of tips and software to pull YouTube videos right off the site.
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"So if you want to get into the venture capital business, become a connector. Find a job that lets you build your network."
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"The following eight strategies encourage you to think productively, rather than reproductively, in order to arrive at solutions to problems."
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Erik Spiekermann answers "What is the ONE thing you think every student of typography should know?"
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"With 175,000 being created every day and the blogosphere doubling in size every six months, the standards for a quality weblog have become much higher. Here are 7 ways to optimize yours."
"You can press and hold the Alt (Option) key, click and drag your cursor to select text freely without the constrains of regular text selection."
How to Run a Meeting Like Google
"No one wastes time searching for a purpose at Marissa Mayer's meetingsâ€â€even five-minute gatherings must have a clear agenda"
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10 Things That Will Make Or Break Your Website
"These are the top 10 things I learned from attending the Future of Web Apps Conference 2006 in San Francisco earlier this month."
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Avoid the myths, find a good niche
"The trick isn't to fill up a niche. It's to fill up a customer."
7 things I learned at wieden and kennedy (portland edition)
Russell Davies reflects on the advertising industry.
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"Review these typical interview questions and think about how you would answer them. Read the questions listed; you will also find some strategy suggestions with it."
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"A quote from Paul Graham's Hackers and Painters starts off one of the chapters in my PhD thesis. Now Graham's got some tips on presenting to investors. Hear him out."
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A few more Presentation How To's
Some presentation tips from Creating Passionate Users.
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The ONE key thing to know about negotiation
"In negotiation, the one thing that really strengthens your position is the ability to walk away from the deal."
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Basics of search engine optimisation
"Consider the guidelines I describe here a basic level of SEO"
"To follow-up on one of the recurring discussions at this year’s Art of Yahoo! conference, I’ve compiled several of my thoughts on effective design reviews with product stakeholders (clients, business units, etc.)."
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Creating & Maintaining a Web Style Guide
"This article describes how to create and maintain a web style guide to better manage your organization’s web presence."
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50 ways to become a better designer
The way you work can have a huge impact on your creative success. We present the best advice from leading designers on every stage of the creative process, so that you can keep clients satisfied and make the most of your talents
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Typographic Tips: Apostrophes & Quotation Marks
Quotes can be smart or dumb. To set type intelligently, read this easy introduction to the differences between prime symbols, acute accents, apostrophes, and quotation marks.
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Digital Digressions: The Secret of Happy Employees
"What makes a great workplace and happy employees? It's not countless training courses or 'away-days' or even a selection of free cakes and an office dog. It is three very simple things."
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Things You Didn't Know About Your Body
"The world's most amazing, practical, and powerful health tips for men"
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"So if you want to become an early riser (or just exert more control over your sleep patterns), then try this: Go to bed only when you’re too sleepy to stay up, and get up at a fixed time every morning."
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Leaders are Those Who Recognize It
"Are leaders born, or can you make the decision to become one? Whether your view is from the bottom up, the middle or the top – It's clear that your decisions make the difference."
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"These are basically little nuggets of wisdom for bite-sized nutrition."
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10 Tips That Every PHP Newbie Should Know
The first five of this two part series.
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Ten Tips to the Top of the Search Engines
Jill Whalen: "Having a website that gets found in Google, Yahoo, and MSN, etc. isn't hard to do, but it can be difficult to know where to begin. Here are my latest and greatest tips to get you started."
Issues Entrepreneurs Face as their Businesses Grow
"Growth also creates challenges for the entrepreneur. Here are some of the more common issues that entrepreneurs wrestle with as their business grows."
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Guy Kawasaki's tips for naming a copmany or product.
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"As you're speaking, slowly lower your voice so that at the end of the 10 minutes everyone is leaning forward to hear you and your speaking at the level of a stage whisper."
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Tips for getting to sleep faster & sleeping better
"So, I’ve pieced together various bits of advice I’ve received over the past few months that have not only helps me get to sleep faster, but helps me get a better nights sleep."
Five good tips for pitching your business to anyone, not just VCs.
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Dos and Don'ts for Beating the iPod (and iTunes)
Anil Dash offers some tips for prospective iPod competitors.
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Top X keyboard shortcuts in OS X
Mac keyboard shortcuts for everyone from "the elite OS X ninja to those who are reading this on their first Mac which they pulled out of the box just yesterday."
Small Biz 101: No one starts with a masterpiece
"Every successful business has a dirty little secret: They didn’t know if they were going to be successful when they started."
The 80/20 Of Search Engine Marketing - Part 2
Some good off-page Search Engine Optimization tips.
The 80/20 Of Search Engine Marketing - Part 1
Some good on-page Search Engine Optimization tips.
A Guide to Starting Your Business
"In an attempt to reduce the number of frustrating hours searching the web for what you need, we’ve written this article to help you with the small business paperwork, the basics of accounting, and an overview of some legal considerations."
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For years, Web typography involved little more than choosing a typeface and font size. Unstyled Times New Roman was the norm, and the integration of established typographical techniques and rules was unimagined.
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Evan Williams, who started Blogger and now Odeo, gives some tips to potential web startups.
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"It's now officially annoying to use web apps that haven't replaced clunky html functionality with peppy Ajax goodness. Here are places Ajax should now be required in a web application"
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Garrett Dimon: "Something I’ve been doing for a while is always adding a comment after ever closing div tag that indicates which opening div it’s supposed to be related to."
PR blogger Steve Rubel lists his ten favorite Bloglines hacks.
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Designing in Hostile Territory
"You don't need anyone's permission to think like a designer. But there are five things you need to do if you want to be effective in a "design-unfriendly organization.""
From Communication Nation: "Here's a compilation of "how-to" posts from this blog that can help you be more effective in business situations:"
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The Art of Business: Marketing Smart
"Nine top ways to make your marketing fast and effective."
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"They may not tell you, but clients expectâ€â€even demand things from the creative firms they work with. Learn how to meet and exceed those expectations."
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"The purpose of this site is to aid new switchers in jumping straight to a lot of the amazingly good stuff that's available. All of the applications that are mentioned in the Quick Looks are used by me on a day to day basis."
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Geek to Live: Write effectively for the Web
"From Lifehacker’s very own internal editorial style guide, today we’ll go over some simple guidelines for writing on the Web that will help you get your message across and elicit the best responses."
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"Here are some of the endless numbers of activities that can stimulate your brain. The one key ingredient is to have an open mind."
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"I would like to talk about some blogging approaches I have here on Google Blogoscoped to help make sure, years from now, this blog makes a good archive – maybe it inspires a thing or two on your own blog!"
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Lifehacker's guide to weblog comments
"Good blog commenters add to the discussion and are known as knowledgeable, informative, friendly and engaged."
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Nokia Phone Hacks, Security, Mod Chips, Discussion, Cellphone ring tones and hardware!
"Media allegiance spells limitation. Think first, then choose what tools to use."
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"In design, and particularly logo design, the pessimistic axiom that “everything has already been done� is becoming more and more true"
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Steps to Becoming a Freelance Web Developer
Garrett Dimon: "After the popularity of my previous going solo article, I thought I’d lay out some more specific ideas on how to become a freelance web developer."
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9 Lessons from 9 Years of Interface Design
"As a result, I’ve always approached design as a learning experience rather than a production process of applying guidelines and set processes."
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"Structure your life as the smart designer does the page. Leave space. Make it vital."
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Top Ten Things You Can Do To Get Blogged
Some recommendations companies can follow to help them get blogged
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Project management for a freelance designer: "This article is a starting point to start thinking about communication in the creative process."
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Ten more CSS tricks you may not know
"Our article, Ten CSS tricks you may not know has proven to be such a success that we decided it was time to offer you ten more CSS tricks that you may not know."
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Using OS X's built in color picker with Photoshop
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The definitive collection of idea generation methods
"This website lists and explains every idea generation method I've encountered during the past 15 years."
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How to handle an emotional conversation
"If people worked like web browsers (thank god they don’t!) you could just check the “history� button or look at the log files and figure it out. Since people are biological beings (thank god they are!), you need to take a more biological approach."
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An Overview of Current CSS Layout Techniques
"Over the last several years I’ve been asked by many web designers and developers about how to best get started with building web sites using CSS and standards . . . This overview is sort of my penance.
Five Mistakes Band Label Sites Make
43 Folders: "Admittedly, this is well off our usual fare, but please indulge me in a public service message on behalf of music fans across the Internetsâ€â€five mistakes that band and label sites make (and a few tips on how to fix them)."
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"Here's a quick number on how to produce a box with rounded corners using only one image, and off-setting that image for each corner."
"These come from years of being frustrated by useless meetings and a true desire to help people get the most out of their work day."
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Ten Tips for New Trainers/Teachers
Creating Passionate Users: "It's not about what YOU do... it's about how your learners feel about what THEY can do as a result of the learning experience you created and helped to deliver."
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Top Ten Ways to handle Bad Clients
"There is nothing more frustrating than a bad client that turns your project into a nightmare. I've had my share of them and I thought I'd give my ways I handle them."
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"The drop shadows are implemented in valid XHTML and CSS, with no CSS hacks or JavaScript. We call it ydnar Drop-Shadow-Fu."
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Anil Dash offers tips to clueless PR people for pitching bloggers
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"Much like many of you I not only got into personal productivity to get things doneâ€â€I want to do great things."
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Five simple steps to better typography
"So, in an attempt to spread the word here’s the first of five simple steps to better typography. To kick it off, part one is about the Measure."
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"This essay provides a primer on idea pitches, and although most of my experience is in the tech-sector, I pitch to you that the advice here will be relevant to pitching . . ."
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Your Central Nervous System: Your Biological Key to Productivity
Strategies to make your body work for you
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"The goal here is to give you a basic roadmap to the legal issues you may confront as a blogger, to let you know you have rights, and to encourage you to blog freely with the knowledge that your legitimate speech is protected"
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Writing Tool #50: The Writing Process
"Sniff. Explore. Collect. Focus. Select. Order. Draft. Revise."
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Stop your presentation before it kills again!
Creating Passionate Users: "Sometimes the best presentation is... no presentation. Ditch the slides completely."
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Good and Bad Web Design Features
Go through the list of things that people--designers and non-designers--from around the country have cited as the things that make the difference between a well-designed and a poorly designed web page.
Some quick tips that might help one become more productive
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Everything You Thought You Knew About Grilling Is Wrong
Five easy tips for being a better grillmaster.
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20 Cool Tiger Features You Might Not Have Heard About
MacDevCenter: "My goal in this article is to explore 20 new Tiger tips that you probably haven't heard about before. Even if you've had the opportunity to play with Tiger yourself, I bet you'll discover some new tricks herein."
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What Every Good Marketer Knows
Seth Godin: "But, assuming that you’re like me and the rest of the people I know (which means you haven't figured out everything there is to know about marketing yet), here’s a list to get you started."
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Tricks of the Trade: "When all that is left are the middle seats on the plane, ask the person at the counter if you can be seated between two people with the same last name."
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