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12 Sep 2011Writing content for web users has its challenges. Chief among them is the ease with which your content is read and understood by your visitors (i.e. its readability). When your content is highly readable, your audience is able to quickly digest the information you share with them — a worthy goal to have for your [...]
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19 Jun 2011The Bitcoin community faced another crisis on Sunday afternoon as the price of the currency on the most popular exchange, Mt.Gox, fell from $17 to pennies in a matter of minutes. Trading was quickly suspended and visitors to the home page were redirected to a statement blaming the crash on a compromised user account. Mt.Gox’s [...]
Tiny single-use site Down or Just Me is a quick way to find out whether a website is truly down, or if the problem lies somewhere on your end. The site itself is easy enough to remember with a URL like DOJ.me, but it’s also got a bookmarklet that can be used at any time [...]
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6 Jun 2011It looks like iOS 5 has a new approach to notifications — and we like what we see so far. Notification Center aggregates your various app alerts and eschews the pop-ups for a decidedly Android-esque list that appears at the top of our your screen when you you get a Facebook message, or a tweet, [...]
Here’s a demo of an immersive motion-controlled Disneyland simulator shown at this year’s E3: using a Kinect, players can run around Disneyland, ride the rides, and even hug Mickey (which is a total show-stealer). Star Wars Kinect & Disneyland Adventures – E3 2011 (via Wonderland)
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3 Jun 2011In another move that makes it clear that Google is putting a much greater focus on ‘social’, the search giant has just acquired PostRank. Terms of the deal are not being disclosed. PostRank is a service that helps measure how far content, like tweets and Facebook updates, spread across the web. PostRank’s products include ‘Analytics’, which [...]
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