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A fast and fun way to mockup almost anything

August 12, 2008

Online Mockups…easy!
Part of the regular web development cycle is the user interface mockup. I’ve worked with many different tools including Google Sketchup and Adobe Photoshop to build representations for clients.
But nothing has been as quick, easy, and fun as Balsamiq Mockup, and online (and desktop/offline) user interface mockup tool for PC, Mac and Linux.
Desktop version [...]

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Lesson learned: Relying on one of anything is bad (Gmail Down)

August 11, 2008

The online world was in a tizzy this afternoon as Google’s Gmail application crashed and burned.
Gmail and Google Apps for domains all seem impacted.
This is a breaking event so I’ll update this post when more is known. Gmail’s Blog has nothing on it, currently.
*** UPDATE ***It looks like the big brains at Gmail have [...]

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I love mashing technology! (freebies)

August 8, 2008

Moo + LinkedIn = Free Business Cards
I’ve written before about Moo (cards & stickers) and LinkedIn (the business social network), but this is the first time I’ve written about both in the same post.
Short story.Moo is letting you make 50 of their beautiful photo-enhanced business cards for free!
It’s really mashup2Moo itself is a mashup of [...]

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Wordpress 2.6 is out — and you’re using it now.

July 17, 2008

photo credit: purplelime

It was a fairly painless update (thanks to the Wordpress Automatic Upgrade plugin), but there were a few quirks I’ve had to address:

Avatars. WP 2.6 has much better support for Avatars (images used to identify authors of comments). But, my theme doesn’t natively support them so I’ve had to maintain use of [...]

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LinkedIn explained for the common folk!

July 2, 2008

Every time someone asks me to explain why I use and promote LinkedIn, it seems I have a good 15 or 20 minute conversation coming. Then they invariably want to check out my profile and see who I’m LinkedIn to.
Now I’ll just point them to this excellent CommonCraft video. Simple, easy to understand, and entertaining. [...]

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How to *really* know your blog is successful (or not)

June 26, 2008

Hey! How’ya doin’!There are many ways to define your blog’s success; Hits, Links, Trackbacks, Comments, PageRank, Subscribers, etc.
These are all good indicators of activity. Your blog is busy. You’re getting a lot of pageviews. People are hitting and reading and crawling the pages and posts of your blog. All is good, according to the numbers.
But [...]

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Tweaking your FeedBurner / FeedSmith plugin to support Wordpress 2.5+ tag feeds (easy!)

June 23, 2008

photo credit: magbag

Sorry for the uber tech in this post, but I thought this was a simple fix that anyone running a Wordpress 2.5+ blog could do if they wanted to enable ‘Tag Feeds’.
Before I get into the how, let’s explore the why briefly.
Some background:

Feedburner is the service I (and many many other) bloggers [...]

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Content Management Solutions: Upcoming series on Gerry McGovern’s web writing masterclass

June 15, 2008

photo credit: visualpanic

*** Update ***
Oversite on my part, here’s some links to the articles in the series directly:

Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Key Messages

This brief post is just to let you know that I’ll be taking a road less travelled this week by introducing an interview series with a cool co-worker of mine. She’s cool because [...]

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More cool sites from the Blogging Pack

June 13, 2008

photo credit: Brett L.

It’s been a busy week, but I’ve always made time to visit some sites (and Digg/Stumble posts) within the Blogging Pack, which I describe in previous post. Only two sites profiled today…but they’re chock full of bloggy-goodness. Enjoy.

Remarkablogger – Remarkable Blog Consulting and Coaching. An interesting follow on Twitter, and even [...]

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How to find new things to read online…use the Human Filter!

June 6, 2008

photo credit: photopia / HiMY SYeD

I’m an information junkie. I also share a lot of what I find with coworkers, friends, etc. So when people ask me where I dig this stuff up I often respond “just found while surfing” or “in my RSS feed”. I usually only pass on what I think is [...]

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