June, 2008

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Launching a Social Network in 10 Minutes

Social networks dedicated to niche groups focused around a common industry, interest or cause have been spreading like wildfire. Creating your own social network is now extremely easy using freely available tools such as Ning.

1. Pick Your Purpose & Sign-up

Decide what your social network’s focus is going to be.  Is this a community for your customers to interact with you and each other or possibly an industry related group to bring together new ideas.


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Why I Hate Your Website

I can’t think of any nice way to put this, so I’m just gonna say it: I really hate your website. Looking at it makes my eyeballs bleed. The pain and suffering that it inflicts upon the world has caused me to question my belief in a benevolent God. I just finished writing a letter to the Hague requesting that the creation of your website be prosecuted as a war crime.

Among its many grievous crimes:


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How the iPhone Changed Mobile App Development

Apple’s iPhone has radically changed the mobile applications landscape by opening up mobile application development to any web development firm using Web 2.0 standard technology. No longer is a specialized team who know the intricacies of proprietary cell phone software development necessary.


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Ubuntu - My Favorite Linux Distro

I’ve been tinkering around with Canonical’s Ubuntu (Oo - boon - too) since the first release 4.10 “Warty Warthog” all the way up to their latest release 8.04 “Hardy Heron.” Since then I’ve flirted with other distributions, but I always end up back with Ubuntu for several reasons. The top three are as follows:

1. Nice package management and abundant repositories.


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Making your web applications more fluid

How many web browser windows do you have open during the day? Have you ever tried to dedicate a window to a specific web application only to have it overrun by a link to another site? Site Specific Browsers (SSB) might be the answer you are looking for.


Alex's picture

Build a System With ZERO Infrastructure Investment

Web based systems typically require an investment in hardware, hosting and management to get them off the ground once they’re beyond a prototype. That is starting to change with things like Google’s App Engine being released.


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Talk Like A Tech Pro: 4 Terms You Should Know (Part 1)

If the phrases “fault tolerance” and “load balancer” sound all but foreign to you, you are not alone. I used to consider myself fairly well versed in technical jargon. It wasn’t until I started working in the Marketing Department at Lextech that I realized how much I didn’t know. There were times I felt like I was working in a distant land, where everyone dealt in a currency to which I didn’t have access.


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Activity Monitor: A Private Eye To Shadow Your Unfaithful Applications

I thought we had a good thing going; I thought we could trust each other. I wouldn’t play with her heart, and she wouldn’t let me down. We seemed to be in a stable, long-term relationship. Then she just stopped trying and completely locked me out. I couldn’t figure out why her behavior just changed overnight, and I didn’t know what else to do. So I had someone follow her, to find out what was really going on.


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50 iPhone Tips for Researchers

Fiona from College@Home pointed us to an article they have up covering innovative ways to use the iPhone in a research or library setting. It presents some great ideas that can be applied in most businesses too.


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Secret Sauce: Aptium Global, Inc.

The following profile was compiled from an interview with Lisa Reisman, Co-Founder and Managing Director of Aptium Global, Inc. Read on to learn how she is using technology to generate revenue.

Get some valuable advice and the recipe to this business’ Secret Sauce!

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