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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 [...]

Price: $8.99    Get it from iTunes → 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Price: $2.49       Get it from iTunes → 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 [...]

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 [...]