Spotted: Facebook’s check-in functionality and new “Places” tab — TechCrunch
Fred Wilson’s 10 golden principles of successful web apps — Think Vitamin
Guidelines for writing a good ‘About’ page — Six Revisions
9 essential social news and bookmarking sites for designers — Mashable
Why is business writing so awful? — Inc.
5 ways to boost your Twitter following — s [...]

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There’s an obsessive statistician in us all – just watch a game of cricket on television for proof – and Google Analytics is the bearer of charts, reports, metrics and percentages that will please even the most hardened of website owners.
The Google Analytics App gives you access to [...]

The current state of web design: Trends 2010 — Smashing Magazine
Google Latitude has 3 millions active users, check-ins likely on the way — TechCrunch
Erik Spiekermann’s typo tips — Font Feed
Facebook adding location features this month — Mashable
Strategies for engaging your visitors — Six Revisions
Facilitating design critique — UX Booth
Social media games: Badges or badgering? [...]

Dropbox startup lessons learned — SwissMiss
Mobile web design: is it worth it? — Six Revisions
Root domains, subdomains vs. subfolders and the microsite debate — SEOmoz
Classification schemes (and when to use them) — UX Booth
10 new UX books to look out for in 2010 — UX Booth
Wireframes as a thinking device — Konigi
Thoughts on Flash — [...]

Scott Thomas was lead designer in Obama’s 2008 successful presidential campaign. It was the first time that branding, design and social media played a pivotal role in the campaign, and here he discusses how his team managed the epic task of rolling out designs for logos, print graphics, email templates, the website interface… the list [...]

“Apple said Monday that it sold more than 300,000 iPads on the day of its launch, ushering in a new era of people buying things to find out what they are.”
– Seth Meyer for Weekend Update on SNL. (via Konigi)

The iPad is a toy — Konigi
Facebook introduces community pages — TechCrunch
Facebook sets up Google-war [...]

9 ways to improve the SEO of every website you design — Six Revisions
Viral Cameron: forget health, kill a kitten — Sydney Morning Herald
How to build engaging one-of-a-kind Facebook fan pages — TechCrunch
Charts of the week: Here’s how much a unique visitor is worth — Business Insider
It’s not about web traffic anymore — Inc.com
How Starbucks [...]

6 ways brands are using social media for real-world action — Mashable
Consumers engaged via social marketing more likely to buy — Fashionably Marketing
Review: HTC HD2 on T Mobile — TechCrunch
New iPhone operating system to allow multitasking jobs — Sydney Morning Herald
iPad Peek — Check out how your website will look on the new iPad
2000-2010: A [...]

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So you have an iPhone or an iPod touch and aren’t particularly impressed with the quality of the pictures it takes. Quite frankly, no one is (are you listening, Steve Jobs?). But the folks at Never Center decided that we could at least have fun with [...]

Facebook visits finally surpass Google — Min Online
The top 100 Internet sites — BBC News
Design better websites by thinking about your kitchen cabinets — Brian Cray
“Calls to action” buttons: guidelines, best practices and examples — Hongkiat
15 desktop and online wireframing tools — UX Booth
OpenHallway: unmoderated remote usability testing with screen recording — Konigi
Forms on mobile [...]