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Last night I went to the Boston Web Innovators [...]

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I hate how designers (are often forced to) create tiny form fields on we pages. I end up writing blog comments in BBedit, Word or Apple Mail and then pasting into the form field, an annoying extra step.

FormTextResizer is a bookmarklet that allows you to resize any textarea or text input on any webpage. This [...]

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This venn diagram looks like a mix of a McKinsey consultant telling Hugh Macleod what to draw on a cocktail napkin.

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I was perusing Business 2.0 and came across an article about LinkedIn, the popular business networking site. Behold, a quote from my neighbor and new acquaintance Mikolaj Jan Piskorski, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School. When it comes to Linked In, Jan is the man, having spent quite a bit of time behind the [...]

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I’m cataloging the installation of a new Wordpress blog I’m launching. I figure some of this may be of interest, there are lots of tutorials out there and I’ll try to cull the best of the best, because searching Google for 3 hours debugging plug-ins is not my idea of a good time.
Download latest version [...]

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Over at The Unofficial Apple Weblog, a story about a woman who sold advertising space on the cover of her laptop. In exchange for $150 toward the purchase of a new machine, she offered local companies one square inch of advertising space on the back of her MacBook. Pretty cool idea, although I prefer [...]

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I wrote about Adisem over at my other blog. If you have even a passing interest in optimizing yourAdWords spend, you should read the post.

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Some videoconferencing applications are better designed than others. This one take up 50 MB to store a handfull of saved messages. Thankfully, they have designed a compression optimizer which at the click of a button reduces the overall datastore size to less than 1 megabyte. Talk about broken, why not fix the source of [...]

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I noticed that Yahoo has started offering personalized anti-phishing seals. The seals are linked to each computer, not Yahoo! IDs. Looks like they started offering the service back in September.

How does a sign-in seal protect me?
A sign-in seal is a secret between the computer you set it up on and Yahoo!. So when you sign [...]

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An interesting presentation at TED about life extension.

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