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		<title>What Google needs to learn from Buzz backlash</title>
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(CNET) &#8212; Google may have reached the limits of what it can learn from dog  food.
Ask almost any technology company what products and  services they use within their own organizations, and most will  enthusiastically admit [...]


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		<title>Facebook Gives Us the Lowdown on Its Redesign [VIDEO]</title>
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In a private meeting with the press, Mr. Deng took the time to explain the new Facebook (Facebook) redesign and all of its new features in-depth. While he didn’t reveal many new details, he did provide a very [...]


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		<title>Facebook Fan Page Best Practices</title>
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Configure your Page&#8217;s &#8220;Settings&#8221; to allow more participation.
The new Facebook Pages that launched in March 2009 were designed to encourage more action and participation by your fans. The old design had very little wall posts or discussions. People [...]


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		<title>Effective signup process</title>
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This article focuses on providing new members with an effective join/signup process. Although some of these principles may seem obvious, I’ve gone through plenty of membership signup forms that still suck. So hence the post.

4 elements of an [...]


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		<title>Know Your Typefaces!</title>
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    Know Your Typefaces! Semantic Differential Presentation of 40 Onscreen Typefaces          
Dawn Shaikh* &#8211; User Experience Researcher (Seattle/Kirkland UX Team)   
Summary. This article presents [...]


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		<title>AOL&#8217;s new branding trades iconic running man for goldfish</title>
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The new brand logo comes with a changing background and replaces the letters AOL with Aol. – complete with a period 



 AOL just released its new branding look—one consistent typography showing &#8220;Aol&#8221; with different literally [...]


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		<title>Google Image Swirl &#8211; Clustering Similar Images</title>
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Back in 2001, to give people a new, quicker way to find images, we launched Image Search. When you do a search for [eiffel tower] you&#8217;ll find an array of images of the tower in the daytime, in [...]


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		<title>15 Simple Warning Signs of a Bad Project (and how to think positively)</title>
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Here’s the deal. Designers should not accept every project that crosses their eyes. For five years, I was stuck in the mentality that every potential project was a chariot of gold ready to bring me unimaginable riches.
Wrong. I [...]


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		<title>What is Google Chrome OS?</title>
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via youtube.com
Telling the story of Google Chrome and how it inspired an operating system. Produced by Epipheo Studios.

  Posted via web   from Focus After   


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Introducing Google Building Maker



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		<title>Form Design And The Fallacy Of The Required Field</title>
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Usability
Form Design And The Fallacy Of The Required Field


I was on a mailing list today, and this came across:
“Use red asterisks — they’re the standard for showing required fields.”

Standards are wonderful, but if I asked my mom with [...]


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