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Check out this presentation from Google’s Pamela Fox about usability and the Google Maps API.
All tips are defintely under-review over here at BricaBox as we work on our launch version of BricaBox. And believe you me: our launch version is going to be friggin fantastic.

PS: Did you developers out there know that you can follow [...]

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Improvisation doesn’t just mean “making sh*t up” it means adding to the structure (conversation) and responding to others (listening).
What is the relationship between structure and improvised collaboration? How do we make music together — without coordinated notes on paper — and still make sense?
The quote above came from Forrester researcher and social media consultant Jeremiah [...]

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On November 8th and 9th, about 1,500 folks from the blogging industry descended on Las Vegas for the first annual “Blog World Expo.” BricaBox was there as an exhibitor — one of perhaps 50 — and launched our platform there. The following are my thoughts on the conference and the time we had there:
We’re on [...]

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I read it tonight on Webware: Yahoo! has finally launched Kickstart, their answer to the LinkedIn + CareerBuilder + increasingly-Facebook dominated career industry.
Now, before Kickstart-challenger, and CEO of Path101, Charlie O’Donnell can come out with his next “5 ways Yahoo! will mess up Kickstart” post, I wanted to break the story with the 1 Reason [...]

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A major apology to anyone still reading this blog who doesn’t give a hoot about what “version” of the web we’re on (Hi mom, dad, and everyone else outside the industry echo chamber — you people who actually use our products!).
This is what Jason Calacanis said today:
Web 3.0 is defined as the creation of high-quality [...]

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I had the pleasure of meeting two women involved in the New York tech community last night at the nextNY holiday party. One was a writer for CNET and the other was a developer/programmer. I thought this was timely anomaly considering my article yesterday about how women seem to be under served in the online [...]

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It’s becoming increasingly obvious that women are under served by the internet… DailyCandy brought in a nice chunk of change when it sold portion of itself, as a testament to their foresight, and Sugar Publishing is now raking in the dough from investors eager to bring services and content to women.
One reason women seem to [...]

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I wanted to point out a new “tag” I’m using for this blog. It’s called “Real Users,” and it’s a tag I’ll give articles that deal with one of the main problems I find on the internet: the creation of web-apps and sites that Real Users — real people, like your cousin or mother or [...]

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As you can see on the right hand side of my blog (and in a screen-shot here), I installed and run MyBlogLog: a tool that allows me to keep track of who is visiting my site. MyBlogLog not only changes the way I browse the internet, but I also think it has the potential to [...]

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I Digg Evan’s latest post on LifeinLists.
He outlines how Facebook is in a unique position to grow with their users and become the social site everyone needs.
I’ll let you read the article yourself, but because Evan talks about how he’s found little use for LinkedIn, I’ll point you to this article on PaidContent which reveals [...]

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