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SitePoint Edge Of The Web Competition: And The Winner Is…
Last week we announced that we were holding a competition in conjunction with the Edge Of The Web conference, which is on next week in Perth. To enter, all you had to was follow us on Twitter (@sitepointdotcom) and tell us (via a public post to the Twittersphere) why you think you deserved to win the free ticket.
The results are in!
There were a stack of entries, ranging from the bleeding heart pleas to the more humorous to the extreme end of brown nosing, and we loved them all! Here are a few of our favourites, though:
velvetsarah: @sitepointdotcom I want to go to #EoTW to nourish my starving inner geek. Was hoping to get a dance with @sentience, maybe you can send him? [#]
ronc1974: @sitepointdotcom I want to attend Edge Of The Web because I left my job to be stay-at-home-dad 3 kids, forgot what adult interaction is like [#]
Margaretw: @sitepointdotcom I want to attend Edge Of The Web because my boss won’t pay & all my friends are going! Please Please :) Lame but true! [#]
mooloolabaweb: @sitepointdotcom I …
6 Great Crowdsourcing Sites For Freelancers
Crowdsourcing sites allows freelancers to slash their costs on everything from design work to IT jobs by tapping into global online markets of freelance professionals. As James explains, it’s quick, easy and oh-so web 2.0.
Do You Own Your Social Media Identity?
Have you registered your name yet on Twitter? Digg? Facebook? MySpace? If you haven’t, you need to right away. Social media is the next frontier of cybersquatting, and if you don’t act now you might find yourself out of luck when trying to pimp your brand on those sites.
Google Removes OpenID Whitelist Requirement
When Google announced OpenID support yesterday, they required interested relying parties to get approval before accepting Google Accounts as sign-ins. Today, after what they say was an overwhelming response, they decided to lift that restriction.
Google Reassures AdSense Publishers via Email
“We understand that the recent economic turmoil has created a lot of uncertainty in the lives of AdSense publishers,” wrote Google today in an email to AdSense publishers. Have you noticed a drop in AdSense revenue recently? Are Google’s words reassuring? We’d love to hear your thoughts.
How To Crowdsource Your Research & Development
Your users are full of good ideas. No really, they are. So why not make it easy for them to share those ideas with you? We’ll show you eight web sites that can help you turn your customers in your your R&D department and build a more loyal fan base in the process.
Poll: How Do You Use LinkedIn?
LinkedIn today launched their applications platform. They’re trying to keep things focused on business apps and avoid the noise that has plagued platforms at Facebook and MySpace, but will users even respond to apps? It depends on how people actually use LinkedIn. How do you?
Sometimes the Smallest Amount of Help is Greatly Appreciated
As a web professional it’s often easy to forget how steep those first few steps on the learning curve were. I was recently tasked with assisting a customer, Josh, who had bought the SitePoint book Build Your Own Website The Right Way Using HTML & CSS. He was having a problem getting his images to display. It was a simple matter of getting the path in the src attribute correct and it took several emails back and forth before he was able to figure it out.
It’s the sort of problem that is very easy to solve if you know how, but extremely frustrating if you don’t understand what’s going wrong. Josh was so appreciative that he offered to draw me as a cartoon; it turns out that he’s a professional illustrator/cartoonist. So I sent him a photo and you can see the result below.
Inspired by the book, Josh’s very first website, Big Pencil Design, is now live too.
So, don’t begrudge someone a little help, you may be rewarded for your patience in a most unexpected way!
The Single Sign-On War Will Ruin OpenID
With Google’s announcement today, now most of the web’s top properties support OpenID. But their support is generally only skin deep — by only providing OpenIDs and not accepting them from other providers, the concept is in danger of falling apart.
Last Chance To Win A Free Adobe AIR Book!
The ever popular quiz is back! Test how much of our latest Adobe AIR article you’ve actually absorbed by testing yourself.
This week Jonathan Snook pushes the boundaries of CSS from within the safe haven of an Adobe AIR application. You’ll learn how to use Adobe AIR to easily create funky borders, impressive backgrounds, and employ other cutting-edge design effects using features of CSS3—all without having to worry about cross-browser compatibility. As you’ll see, AIR is a great technology for experimenting with the Web of tomorrow!
If you missed past opportunities to pick up a copy of the excellent pocket guide, Adobe AIR For JavaScript Developers (that’s the dead-tree version), then now’s your last chance to grab a copy. This is the last of the giveaways for this book, so grab your copy now before they’re all snapped up. Oh, and if you DID win a copy already, be nice and let someone else sign up for one this time, eh?
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