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Even if you haven’t ever visited popular visual bookmarking site Pinterest, you might recognize its design elements — which have been popping up everywhere since the startup burst onto the mainstream scene in 2011. The site doesn’t use traditional web building blocks. “It’s almost like a window-shopping mode,” says Khoi Vinh, the former design director for NYTimes.com. “It puts the ball back in the user’s court,” muses Andrew Beck, a web designer at Blue Fountain Media. “It flattens the informa...  show all text

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Casey Hopkins is raising funds for Elevation Dock: The Best Dock For iPhone on Kickstarter! Undocking's a breeze and it works with cases. Built at a whole new level of quality with a beautifully minimal design.

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If you are part of the online marketing or content marketing industry you have undoubtably heard of Joe Pulizzi (@juntajoe) and his company the Content Marketing Institute (CMI).  Joe has been a member of the content marketing community for over a decade, and has made it his mission to help brands create quality content and distribute that content through multiple online channels.   This was my first time seeing Joe speak and he made it a great interactive experience, and was of course wearing ...  show all text

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Google, Amazon and Adobe defeated a patent claiming ownership over online video, image rotation and search auto-complete. TYLER, Texas — After threatening web companies for more than a decade, Michael Doyle and his patent-holding company Eolas Technologies — named after the Irish word for knowledge — may be finished. An eight-member federal jury in East Texas deliberated Thursday for just a few hours before concluding that all of Eolas’ asserted claims of ownership to technology allowing access...  show all text

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People feel more comfortable with brands that they can put a face behind. Even though you might purchase a product exclusively online, having a phone number on your site and the ability to talk to a real person (who cares) in turn makes you feel more comfortable taking our your wallet (or recommending someone else to) for this brand.

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World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee addresses the media during the International World Wide Web conference in Hyderabad, India, Thursday, March 31, 2011. Photo: Mahesh Kumar A/AP The inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, testified in a courtroom Tuesday for the first time in his life. The web pioneer flew down from Boston, near where he teaches at MIT, to an eastern Texas federal court to speak to a jury of two men and six women about the early days of the web. His trip is part of  show all text

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2012 Campaign Playlist, a playlist by barackobama on Spotify. Don't have Spotify? Get it at Spotify.com – it's free!

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Maisel tsivilisatsioonil on totaalse hävinguni jäänud veel 11 kuud. ETV saates Pealtnägija esinenud põllumajandusteadlane maalis kohutavaid katastroofivisioone, millel puudub vähimgi teaduslik tagapõhi.

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Notes from an FBI special agent investigating a bomb-threat extortion attempt against Steve Jobs in 1985. The government released Steve Jobs’ FBI file Thursday, including details of a background check done for a presidential appointment in 1991 and a bomb threat against him in 1985. The background check for an appointment to the president’s Export Council, under former President George H. W. Bush, included interviews with friends and colleagues to make sure there was nothing in Jobs’ background...  show all text

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No ei suuda ma siit NYC-ist piisavalt kiiresti reageerida asjadele mis Eestis toimuvad. Ja tegelikult ei olegi see nii määrav. Määrav on see, et iga inimene Eestis peaks võtma oma seisukoha kas ACTA või vähemalt selle ümber toimuva kohta. Täpsemalt siis selle kohta kuidas valitsev partei ja valitsus seda teemat käsitlenud on. Siin siis minu [...]

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A curious meme is spreading through the world of books: crowdfunding. Indie authors are flocking to sites that allow them to create fundraising pages for their book projects. It’s a beautiful and simple idea: have your readers fund your next book directly in exchange for intimate access to the process as well as exclusive goodies available at various pledge levels. Kickstarter is the most recognizable platform. Kickstarter’s premise is “a new way to fund and follow creativity.” According to the...  show all text

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“Hello. My name is Cori and I’m a social media addict. “Today is day 1 of my commitment to give myself a regular break from technology and the foggy, uncreative haze it can unwittingly lead to.” I was reading a post the other day by blogger Michael Brenner at B2B Marketing Insider, talking about getting your social media game on. Of course, being the skimmer that I am, the first thing that caught my attention and made me go back and read the whole thing was his mention of having a Social Media ...  show all text

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What in the world is new-school marketing? At this time last year, Search Engine Optimization and social media were two distinct fields, and now, they’ve blended harmoniously. Once upon a time, SEO was all about gaming an algorithm. Now, the term “link-building” is close to obsolete, and a new and improved concept has taken its place — “content marketing.” All of a sudden, the Internet marketing community’s strongest buzz words like conversions, ROI, and branding have new connotations that are...  show all text

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Post written by Leo Babauta. There is one little habit I’ve learned that has changed everything else in my life. The pause. When we fail, it’s because we act on urges without thinking, without realizing it. We have the urge to eat junk, and we do it. We have the urge to check email instead of writing a chapter of our book, and so we open our inbox. We have an urge to smoke, to drink, to do drugs, to chew our nails, to play a Facebook game, to procrastinate, to skip a workout, to eat more fries,...  show all text

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Comedy is king on Twitter. Professional humorists and armchair standups alike have amassed legions of followers that hang on every 140-character quip. Twitter humor is a brand-builder, a great writing exercise, and if you’re really good, it might even land you a job (but probably not, so settle down). So, what does it take to get laughs at this 24/7 digital cocktail party? We asked some of the funniest tweeters around for their tips on cracking wise in the one-liner Renaissance. 1. Start by Be...  show all text

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(Article edited to correct that Wiseguys does take 8% equity) Hot and fresh out of an event in Riga is a new Tallinn based accelerator: Startup Wise Guys. The accelerator is built in the modified Y Combinator model with a similar setup to Startup Sauna in Finland. Getting accelerated involves a 13 week program, demo day in Tallinn and London, and €5000 of funding per founder for 8% of equity. To build some hype, Wise Guys is also offering €500 for any startup referral that makes it into the pro...  show all text

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We’re running the first ever TechCrunch Baltics meetup today with a mini-conference and pitch contest in the lovely city of Riga, Latvia. The Baltic nations of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia are tiny countries, but punch above their weight in terms of their technical prowess. Estonia in particular was made famous as being the base from which Skype was developed, and now the rest of the region is coming alive with startups and accelerators. You can find the agenda here. Up to 8 selected Baltic st...  show all text

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For the first time ever, TechCrunch is coming to the Baltics on February 9th, 2012, to beautiful Riga, Latvia. Mike Butcher will interview guests in his usual “fireside chats”. Panel discussions will focus on startup investments in the Baltics, scaling startups to Europe and the USA, as well as using the Baltics as a launch pad to the Russian market. See the full list of guests and the agenda here. The conference agenda will end with a Baltics Pitch Contest (Click here for more details and ...

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It’s a sign of the times, though not a particularly surprising one: Nokia has finally eliminated its European phone assembly infrastructure and will be moving those 4000 jobs to Asia, according to a Reuters report. The factories are not being shuttered altogether, and localizing and finishing work will still be done there, but the primary assembly work is being relocated. The news and layoffs were expected, as the company has slashed many more thousands of jobs over the last year, but this part...  show all text

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EKSPRESS.EE - Kas teate, mis on ACTA? Tõenäoliselt olete kuulnud, aga ei saa väga täpselt aru, millega sisuliselt on tegemist.

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Europeans will take to the streets this weekend in protest at the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, an international agreement that has given birth to an ocean full of red herrings. That so many have spawned is, say critics, in no small part down to the way in which this most controversial of international agreements was drawn up. If the negotiating parties had set out to stoke the flames of Internet paranoia they could not have done a better job. Accepted there are two things that should ne...  show all text

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The online 'pinboard' is driving serious traffic and proving to be a powerful online marketing tool for some companies.

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Content marketing is an industry that is booming, though most companies outsource these services or don't take advantage of sharing content.

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Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. People use Facebook to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, post links and videos, and learn more about the people they meet.

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Allikas: falkvinge.net Autor: Rick Falkvinge Tõlge: Peeter P. Mõtsküla <peeterpaul@motskula.net> Ma elan Rootsis, Stockholmis. Saja aasta eest oli Stockholm Ice üks linna suurimaid tööandjaid. Nende äri oli nii lihtne kui vajalik: nad aitasid hoida kiirestiriknevaid toiduaineid söödavatena, levitades kaasaskantavas formaadis külma. Talviti lõikasid nad külmunud järvedest suuri jääkamakaid ja panid need hiiglaslikesse küünidesse saepuru sisse hoiule. Hiljem lõikasid nad kamakad väiksemateks tükk...  show all text

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