links for 2008-08-20
August 20, 2008
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Great blog post why domain names are vital. Conclusion: All other things being equal (e.g., marketing budget, content quality, design, affiliation with larger websites and so on), a website with a good domain name will always outperform a competitor with a bad or average domain name".
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Great blog post about how newspapers like Chicago Tribune broke a story about a local bomb threat thanks to the interaction with social media users on Twitter
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Great interactive guide for programming on the web.
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Platforms like WordPress and Movable Type democratized the process of self-publishing. With these tools, everyone could be a publisher and it didn't require advanced technical expertise to do so. Now, the next revolution for publishing is to bring that same ease of creation to the process of building social networks.
links for 2008-08-14
August 14, 2008