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Public Service Announcement: Don’t Look at the Web Today

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Companies and people brought out clever web jokes, many of them subtle and almost believable. Or maybe it’s just easier to skip a day on the web, let people do whatever they are going to do, and pick it up on again on April 2nd. I used to think April Fools Day was interesting. Now, the who thing is just extraordinarily annoying.

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Book: Product Design for the Web

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Last week Fred Wilson wrote a post recommending two books including Randy Hunt’s Product Design for the Web: Principles of Designing and Releasing Web Products. The post Book: Product Design for the Web appeared first on Feld Thoughts. I grabbed them both. Books book design fred wilson product randy hunt'

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BigDoor Cracks The Code On Web Site Engagement

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Social gaming companies and a few very popular consumer web services have gotten extremely good at creating loyalty, where loyalty rate is defined as Daily Active Users (DAU) / Monthly Active Users (MAU). Yet when you look at loyalty rates on the rest of the web, they look downright abysmal. In other words; loyalty.

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Feld.com Automagically Upgraded To HTTPS By Pantheon

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With major media sites such as NYTimes.com joining the movement, now over half of all web requests are served securely to the browser. In this new era of state sponsored hacking and fully professionalized cybercrime, it is heartening to see engineers get seriously organized and tackle something on the scale of securing the entire web.

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The Predictable Flood of Politics Oriented Web Startups

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I received at least one email a day last week pitching a politics oriented web startup. The web and social media are critical tools for any candidate. The emails start off something like this. Over $8 billion dollars will be spent on the upcoming 2012 election.

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Book: The Red Web: The Struggle Between Russia’s Digital Dictators and the New Online Revolutionaries

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The Red Web: The Struggle Between Russia’s Digital Dictators and the New Online Revolutionaries was one of two books I read this weekend (the other was Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness ). The Red Web covers Russia’s history around the Internet starting during the Cold War with a focus on the last twenty years.

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A New Amazing Deal: Web Hosting For Entrepreneurs

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This week’s deal is for one year of web hosting from Cloud Jolt. If you are in the market for a new host, thinking of starting a web company, or need to expand your blog, you should give these guys a try. $39 I can’t help myself – it feels so satisfying to be a deal huckster.

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