Writing Tips and Techniques from an Expert Copywriter

9 steps to writing successful, proof perfect copy. A diggers must read.

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135 Completely Free Distance Education Courses

Apparently, this list took a team of individuals several weeks to compile, but these courses are all completely free -- from universities such as MIT, Tufts, Stanford, and UC Berkeley -- without strings attached.

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Scaling Websites On the Cheap

"...what I like is they have a strategy, a point-of-view for building websites and were gracious enough to share very detailed instructions on how to go about building a website. They even delve into actual installation details of the various software packages they use. Anyone can benefit by taking a look at their work."

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10 Steps Toward Better Writing

"Writing well is easily one of the most sought-after and useful skills in the business world. Ironically, it is one of the rarest and most undervalued skills among students, and few professors have the time, resources, or skills to teach writing skills effectively..."

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[Howto] Manage your life via SMS (LifeHacker)

The command line's making a comeback, but the terminal window, keyword launcher and search box aren't the only textual command interfaces- your cell phone has joined the party. More and more modern webapps let you interact with your data via SMS, updating and retrieving your information in the cloud on the go. You don't need a fancy mobile phone

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15 Largest Social Bookmarking Sites

Here are the 15 Largest Social Bookmarking Sites ranked simply by Alexa Rank.Other things that i taken into account were Inbound Links, Google Page Rank and U.S. traffic data from Compete and Quantcast. Although no traffic metrics are completely accurate so you can call them my favorites if you like. All data collected within last 7 seven days

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What If Joost Were a Web App?

An independent developer has built a Flash version of Joost that runs in any browser. ANother programmer started OnTheToob, a directory of Joost programs. Should Joost just buy them?

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Nokia Buys Media Sharing Site Twango for $96.8 million

When Twango started in 2004, they set out to create a media sharing service that would embrace and build connections between people. They wanted to make it easy for people to share the media they choose (photos, videos, audio, documents, and more) in whatever way they choose.Twango´s traffic has been rising recently...

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ONLINE MEDIA GOD: 400+ Tools for Podcasters, Videobloggers, & Photographers

Online media is exploding…and with it, a new class of creative people producing their own music, podcasts, professional-level photography and video shows. We’ve compiled the largest list so far of useful tools for self-made photographers, videobloggers, podcasters and videobloggers.

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9 Ways to Build Your Own Social Network

"The news may overflow with stories about the social networking giants, such as Facebook and MySpace, but a horde of companies are doing their best to reduce the fundamental features of these websites to mere commodities."

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Five Things Nokia Needs To Address To Beat The iPhone

What can they do about the iPhone, then? Well, quite honestly, they most likely can’t beat the hype surrounding it. But they can improve what they have to a good degree, and maybe even (just maybe) come out in front again.

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45 Best Freeware Design Programs

This is a huge list from the best Freeware Design programs the web has to offer, sorted in Image editing,Illustration,Authoring Tools,Animation,3D Modeling & CAD,Flash Tools and Useful Tools.

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Lotus Notes Goes Web 2.0

Notes 8 will sport a revamped interface and support RSS, blogs, and wikis, says exec

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Get started with the Eclipse Platform

Find out about the Eclipse Platform, including its origin and architecture. Starting with a brief discussion about the open source nature of Eclipse and its support for multiple programming languages, we demonstrate the Java™ development environment with a simple programming example.

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Jing Project: Visual Communication

The concept of Jing is the always-ready program that instantly captures and shares images and video…from your computer to anywhere. (PC & Mac)

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Miro Launched - Formerly ‘Democracy Player’

Formerly known as ‘Democracy Player’, this new name, logo, and updated version of the software represents the next evolution of the project. We are hoping to reach even more people and build the open video movement. The software is more polished and stable than ever.

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Don't sleep

Well you can sleep 2 hrs a day

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10 virtually instant ways to improve your life

Many of our problems come from within our own minds. They aren’t caused by events, bad luck, or other people. We cause them through our own poor mental habits. Here are 10 habits you should set aside right away to free yourself from the many problems each one will be causing you

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101 Ways To Know Your Software Project Is Doomed

Read often your project may be changing.

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10 hot tips to being a better IT manager

It's easy for IT managers, especially those new to management, to get bogged down in day-to-day activities and lose sight of the bigger picture of leading staff. Whether you're a seasoned pro, or new to the game, the following tips from ZDNet Australia points you in the right direction to effectively manage your team.

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Windows Home Server 1.0 finished, code goes RTM

Windows Home Server has been christened 1.0, and the code has been released to manufacturing. System Builder versions as well as initial products from several ISVs are expected this September.

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7 Online Video Aggregators Reviewed

Nice review of video aggregators


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1500 HDTV Channels simultaneously - Possible with new broadband technology

40 Gigabits per second, 1500 HDTV streams simultaneously, download a DVD in about 2 seconds --- It's probably a few years before we can get this but I like those speeds! Remember the days of 14k connections? We've come so far.

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This is what the web looked like in 1994

Time travel back to 1994, see the video digital used to sell the net.

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Microsoft on your telly: a history of the company's Internet TV strategy

From Web TV, MSN, Windows Media Center, Media Room, to Xbox Live Video Marketplace. Microsoft has it covered pretty well.

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Streamy -- The Digg Killer?

Streamy is one part Pageflakes + one part Digg. Users get their home page which is divided into topical sections but then via the wisdom of the Streamy crowds you get personalized recommendations on other stories and publications.

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10 Most Beautiful Social Networks

If you asked most MySpace-haters what's their problem with the service, they'd probably say: it's ugly. Meanwhile, people tell us they are switching from Twitter to Pownce because it's prettier and easier to use. For those who prize beauty above all else, we brought together 10 of the prettiest social networks.

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All Hotkeys for software

We're here to help you to increase work speed, a collection of all the shortcuts you need on your computer software

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17 Things You Didn't Know About Your Brain

But soon your brain will know...

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10 Essential Habits for Freelance Workers

The key, I’ve found, is to develop certain habits that will keep you not only disciplined but successful. Simple habits, to be sure, but ones that can go a long way towards taking you from a broke freelancer to a happy and productive one. Here are 10 essential habits for freelance workers...

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Google vs Everyone: 10 Markets Where Google Wants to Win

Google is the 600-pound gorilla: the company that no one wants to see build a competing product. Google dominates many of the markets it enters, whether by building a superior product or acquiring one. But Google isn't perfect: in some areas, they come out behind. Today, Mashable takes an in-depth look at 10 markets where Google wants to win.

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Ever Wondered Who Really Owns the Media?

Check out these resources to learn how big Big Media really is.

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Linux developers considering move to Eclipse

When you're talking Linux development tools, chances are you're talking about decades-old programming editors like vi and EMACS. These are fine for an older generation of programmers, but today's developers, weaned on Microsoft Visual Studio want integrated development environments.

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iPhone shatters AT&T record, dwarfs RAZR

Apple over the weekend sold more than 700,000 iPhones to rocket past analyst predictions and shatter AT&T's record by selling more iPhones in three days than Motorola's RAZR did in its first month. Apple's supply of iPhones depleted at more than half of its retail stores less than a week after the cellular handset hit store

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In Italy, CIA Agents Were Undone By Their Cell Phones

James Bond's gadget guru surely would have warned the agency about how easy it is to track calls made via cell phone. Now 25 of its agents are facing trial in absentia in Milan, Italy, this summer — undone by their pathetic ignorance of technology

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Links for creating a video web site

FFmpeg (http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu)
Mplayer + Mencoder (http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html)
flv2tool (http://inlet-media.de/flvtool2)
Libogg + Libvorbis (http://www.xiph.org/downloads)
LAME MP3 Encoder (http://lame.sourceforge.net)

5 Social Media Millionaire Milestones - youtube, digg, craigslist, myspace

Youtube, digg, craigslist, flickr, myspace and facebook: what do their creators have in common? The Kings of social media who created them successfully navigated through the 5 milestones to be crowned Web 2.0 millionaires. Ignore them and your brilliant brainwave won't boost your bank balance.

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500,000 iPhones Sold This Weekend

With one of the most anticipated product launches of the year over, how did the iPhone do ?According to analyst, Blackfriars, which has been monitoring stores, claimed that sales should top 500,000 for the first weekend.

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