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Taking talented outsiders and migrating them to productive team members

The site redesign and recently launched website features like the homepage map, lists, and notifications, have brought them closer together. With these features we’ve begun consumi…

"However, by the time HTML5 is released it's a certainty that the new tags will enhance the search engines' understanding of page content." This is exactly the point -- these HTML5…

hm...there are no ads on the site, disqus?

I completely hope that it's the case, and as I mention at the end of the article that could be the case. Since HTML5 is still a moving spec, it's worth considering how you structur…

H2 would be best in a traditional HTML4 docuement, but in HTML5 each sectioning element has it's own document outline. The reason for this is to encourage you to use H1's for the m…

I’m always encouraging people to forge ahead with HTML5 whenever possible, but it’s worth considering the SEO implications and incompatibilities that may arise until we know how se…

The strongest case in favor of building on someone else's platform is synonymous with building a lean project and getting to a minimum viable product as fast as possible. Getting t…

This is true. A possible solution is if the service was run in EC2, you could leverage the speed on the amazon network if the data was already stores in S3.

Cloud based services are creating huge efficiency increases in cost and development. AWS did it with file storage, VPS systems, queues (and more), drop.io is doing it with media co…

It seems clear that this was a negotiation point for AT&T to create artificial lock-in on the 3G service, in return they were willing to go month-to-month. Even if you were able to…

Does anyone know the average meal price in Japan? "set off the price war by cutting the price of its standard beef bowl to 320 yen, or $3.55" In the US fast food restaurants all in…

7 months old, but still good.

In 2009 there was a huge emergence of a new* type of content that was accelerated by the efforts of services trying to increase their virality through social networks: behavior gen…

For every 10% of the 31 million Xbox 360 units sold that cause the purchase of a non-PC, it equates to a loss of 2.25 billion in market value for the PC and less than 1 billion inc…

Do you think Linus Torwalds knows Linus Torvalds?

Every time you select something they post back to their server with details about the selection (including the article, location of your selection, referrer, etc)