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Will that button/ animation/ etc. fall “below the fold”? If you’ve been in website design for any length of time you’ve asked or been asked that question and probably had a folder held up a designer’s large, beautiful, high definition monitor to show approximately where mortals endowed with older, smaller monitors will have the web [...]

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And It’s Free For Now! In my continuing obsession with wi-fi and modes of transportation, a friend riding on the Acela earlier this week reported that she had free wi-fi on the train from Boston to New York.  Evidently Amtrak announced the addition of wi-fi to the Acela in November, with little fanfare, as a [...]

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Alnylam, a client at my previous agency, is a MITX Inteactive Awards finalist this year in the Biotechnology/ Pharmaceuticals category.  Congratulations to the team that designed and developed the site and especially to our client who championed the design with management and maintained high standards throughout the development process.  This is an award that is [...]

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A couple weeks ago Google announced that they would be crawling RSS feeds in order to discover the latest pages on websites as soon as possible.  However they don’t provide a whole lot of detail on how to set that up and ensure that it is being done.  Here’s how: To add your RSS feed [...]

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This week LinkedIn added Twitter integration so that tweets from your selected Twitter account can also update your status on LinkedIn.  You can either have all tweets update your status on LinkedIn or only tweets with a #li or #in hashtag. It’s about time that LinkedIn got linked up with Twitter like most other social [...]

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You know I love free wifi and I already mentioned Google giving free wifi on Virgin America so I need to mention that now Microsoft and Yahoo are also providing free wifi at selected locations.  Microsoft is providing wifi at airports and hotels and Yahoo is giving away wifi access in Times Square.  In both [...]

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One problem with Lifestreaming is that occasionally the streams that you’re trying to aggregate change their course and need to be reigned back in.  With my social media push I decided to add a few streams and in the course of this discovered that a few of my existing ones had gone missing. So I [...]

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Last week I read someone’s amazement at how Google offhandedly launches new products and services that another company would make the key initiative for the year and Google seems to do it every few weeks. Here’s a video from Google UK of the company’s history and products from Stanford in 1995 to today and all [...]

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This summer I wrote about how Facebook’s privacy settings could be the real game changer in their challenging Twitter and reversing the role of Facebook aggregating my Tweets to Twitter broadcasting the subset of my Facebook updates.  In that post I gave the following example of how the privacy settings could lead to this happening: [...]

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Last week Google updated the BlackBerry Google Maps application adding the layers feature.  You can download the application over the air at m.google.com/maps. I’ve been playing with it for a bit and here is a rundown on this handy upgrade to the application. The layers feature is available in the Google Maps application menu.  When [...]

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