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Forbidden words
Paul has the list of words you should NOT use on your site, based on Matt Groening’s annual Life in Hell “Forbidden Words” episode.
Search available domain names
and see instantly if they are availabe. See also How to set up a great site for almost nothing. Yahoo Domains still sell domains for $2.99.
Old marketing vs new marketing
Kathy Sierra has a great post about the difference between old and new marketing. Old way: Hire a PR firm New way: Buy Typepad accounts for ever employee in your company. And maybe some users too. Hello bosses everywhere. Read that again. Open up your companies. And win.
20 free quality fonts
There’s a couple of really nice ones.
Fashion and blogging
Anina has just put up loooots of pics from the Fashion and Blogging conference in Paris some days ago. Also see Anina’s blog and the previous post here.
Google Groups now has RSS feeds
And lots of them. Maybe this has been for some time, but today I discovered that Google Groups has an XML icon on the bottom of every group page. Like this one from the 43 Folders Google Group:
Adsense makes fun of Microsoft
Hehe. After I posted the previous article about Microsoft’s new RSS icon, I checked it in a browser. Seems like Google Adsense makes some fun on Microsoft…
Microsoft doesn’t like orange RSS icon
Microsoft doesn’t want to use the “normal” orange RSS icon. Check out their suggestions for a new icon for their web feeds. I don’t think they look any nice…
The A-list bloggers are on Plazes
“eHub: What is the one thing you’re most proud of about the project? Plazes: That we not only have over 10.000 users but only the smartest and webbiest. Everyone from Jimbo Wales to Joi Ito to the research labs of Yahoo, MS, Google or Apple to the Web 2.0 protagonists to all the A-list bloggers [...]
NetNewsWire sold to NewsGator
NetNewsWire is one of my favourite applications on the Mac. Yesterday Brent Simmons, the developer of NetNewsWire, sold his program to NewsGator Technologies, Inc. There are two press releases on the site of NewsGator, an ordinary one and a much better one. I like this! Congratulations to Brent and his wife. Very good for them. [...]
The sweet taste of mint
Yesterday I installed Shaun Inman’s new mint on my site. Three words: I love it.
10 things that need to be set free
Ross Mayfield is at the Wikimania conference in Frankfurt. And blogs about Jimmy Wales’ “10 Challenges for the Free Culture Movement”. Very interesting. Which of these do you think is the most important? Mine would be no. 3. Encyclopedias and dictionarys are very important. But “just” raw data. It’s how you use the words and [...]
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Cory Doctorow speaks in Oslo
Cory Doctorow visited Oslo today to talk at the Norwegian Polytechnic Society. About 100 (?) people attended the speech, including Jon Lech Johansen, often called “DVD-Jon”. As you may know, Cory is science fiction author, a Boingboing blogger, and European Affairs Coordinator for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). He talked about the case which started [...]
