Dan Crow, Product Manager - Official Google Blog: “I’m often asked about how Google and search engines work. One key question is: how does Google know what parts of a website the site owner wants to have show up in search results? Can publishers specify that some parts of the site should be private and non-searchable? The good news is that those who publish on the web have a lot of control over which pages should appear in search results.” [read more on Official Google Blog]

‘’What is the perfect link? It depends if you’re seeking links for direct traffic acquisition or for improving your visibility in search engines. If you seek the former, the perfect link is easy to describe: Any link that brings in direct, qualified traffic can be called “perfect.” But this guide will focus on the latter. If you’re looking for links as part of an SEO campaign, there are a lot of things to consider.'’ [Small Business SEM]

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MOD Films by Michela Ledwidge makes re-mixable films and tools for film re-use. Sustainable Story Systems.

MOD Films helps film companies manage assets and manage their relationships with interactive companies. The key to “re-mixable” is reliable process management; the efficient documenting and packaging of the bits and pieces of a film production so as to help support future revenue streams, be they DV releases, game console releases, online communities and their products or beyond.

[“Re-mixable films are a new kind of film experience influenced by the ability of emerging technology to support live online performance. People play with, disassemble, and re-assemble films to customise stories.”]

Ipse dixit: “Seeing Windows Vista for the first time may leave you searching for words. Many people just say “Wow.” Here are 100 reasons why…”

“What does Web 2.0 mean to your company and products? What are the risks and opportunities? What are the proven strategies for successfully capitalizing on these changes?

O’Reilly Radar’s Web 2.0 Principles and Best Practices lays out the answers—the why, what, who, and how of Web 2.0. It’s an indispensable guide for technology decision-makers—executives, product strategists, entrepreneurs, and thought leaders—who are ready to compete and prosper in today’s Web 2.0 world.”

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‘’gubb is a simple, fun and powerful way to stay organized and get more done. With gubb, you create and work with as many lists as you want: from tasks and to-dos, to groceries, shopping, ideas, event planning, trips, work-related collaboration, books you want to read, movies you want to see, your personal goals and more! Since you create the lists and you create the names of those lists, gubb can be used for every aspect of your life.'’

Commons advocates in India now have a localized version of Creative Commons licenses to use with today’s launch of the Creative Commons India project. [Creative Commons]

We [FILE Magazine] publish images that treat subjects in unexpected ways. Alternate takes, unconventional observations, odd angles — the photographs in the collection reinterpret traditional genres.

‘’Kottke.org is one of the Web’s most popular blogs. Unfortunately, for a variety of reasons, Jason does not allow readers to leave comments. Kottke Komments contains the same stuff as Kottke.org, but with comments turned on!

HOW DOES IT WORK? We suck down the RSS feeds from Kottke.org (published under a Creative Commons license that allows us to create derivative works) and republish them here, then use our own software to manage the comments.'’

John Wiseman: Optimizing your Wordpress blog for search engines can be extremely difficult, especially if you don’t know where to start…

53 CSS-based techniques you should always have ready to hand if you develop web-sites. [Smashing Magazine]

“Readymechs are free, flatpack toys for you to print and build. They are designed to fit on an 8.5″x11″ page and printed with any printer. You’ll need double-sided tape, thick matte paper, and 10-15 minutes for build time.” [via lifehacker]

Online Education: Massive Resource List for All Autodidacts

NEW YORK, Jan 17 (Reuters) - The number of people reading Internet blogs on the top 10 U.S. newspaper sites more than tripled in December from a year ago and accounted for a larger percentage of overall traffic to those sites, according to data released on Wednesday. (Read more on Reuters.com)

Web site designers love the idea of Ajax–of creating Web pages in which information can be updated without refreshing the entire page. But for those who aren’t hard-core programmers, enhancing pages using Ajax can be a challenge. This book is a step-by-step guide to enhancing Web sites with Ajax.

Working with the Web consultancy firm, Clearleft, Jeremy Keith creates elegant, usable Web sites using the troika of Web standards: CSS, (X)HTML, and the Document Object Model. He is a member of the Web Standards Project and joint lead of the DOM Scripting Task Force. He teaches hands-on Ajax and DOM Scripting in full-day workshops and is the author of DOM Scripting: JavaScript Web Design with JavaScript and the Document Object Mode.

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‘’A new model for artists to promote, publish, and be paid for their music. On jamendo, the artists distribute their music under Creative Commons licenses. In a nutshell, they allow you to download, remix and share their music freely. It’s a “Some rights reserved” agreement, perfectly suited for the new century. Artists allow everyone to download and share their music. It’s free, legal and unlimited.'’

‘’The extensibility of the good of browsers is where things really shine for me as a developer…a web application developer. Well here are some of my favourite extensions for web design and development..'’ [Vibhash, the guy behind Tech Tonic]

Standards, argues Jeffrey Zeldman in Designing With Web Standards, are our only hope for breaking out of the endless cycle of testing that plagues designers hoping to support all possible clients.

In this book, he explains how designers can best use standards–primarily XHTML and CSS, plus ECMAScript and the standard Document Object Model (DOM)–to increase their personal productivity and maximize the availability of their creations. Zeldman’s approach is detailed, authoritative, and rich with historical context, as he is quick to explain how features of standards evolved. It’s a fantastic education that any design professional will appreciate. (more)

La webzine e community di designer LOUNGE72 - Design portal & ezine sta regalando il calendario 2007 in formato PDF. Dodici mesi interpretati da dodici differenti artisti che in un modo o nell’altro sono legati al portale tedesco: ‘’Twelve months. Twelve artist. One unique calendar representing contemporary global design scene'’.