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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

The Past (1985-2002). By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. Next began the era of “spam-based&# networks of which Plaxo (founded in 2002) was the king. MySpace was: scantily dressed, teenaged, middle-America, design chaos and on ad steroids.

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Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces?

alexpoole.info

User experience design and research. Case study: Icon design. Back in 1998 when Times New Roman was still widely used on the web, my then boss made sure we always designed our web sites with Arial, as she hated the look of serif fonts on the web. Bix, 2002). Alex Poole. Site français. Skip to content. Deliverables.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

The Past (1985-2002). By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. Next began the era of “spam-based&# networks of which Plaxo (founded in 2002) was the king. MySpace was: scantily dressed, teenaged, middle-America, design chaos and on ad steroids.

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One More Time: No NDAs

dashes.com

If you can, design for circumstances where, once youre ready to start talking about your idea, youre encouraging people to "disclose" your efforts. The essential design paradigm can be sketched on the back of an envelope. I guess the design will go to my grave with me. Comments (HTML is okay). I dont live in SF.

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53 Top Conversion Optimization Tools Reviewed by Experts

ConversionXL

A/B Tasty is yet another testing tool designed for the masses, this one hailing from France. While they do offer now WYSIWYG editing, it is still at its best with manual HTML overwrite. From there you can also make annotations and report design errors on any browser. Steep learning curve to do the things that matter most.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

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Because.NET is designed to extend, not disrupt. NET is designed to tightly integrate with and seamlessly extend the Microsoft stack in extremely powerful but ultimately incremental ways. Some us have evolved past the visual designers. If they use Haml, are they ignorant of HTML? Alcides Fonseca. March 25, 2011 at 1:13 pm.

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Welcome to the Widget Wars

Eric Friedman

The definition (of a web widget) of a widget from Wikipedia is as follows: The web widget is a portable chunk of code that can be installed and executed within any separate HTML-based web page by an end user without requiring additional compilation. According to my own timeline, I would say 2002. Who is making the widgets?

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