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Cut Costs by Saving Ink with Ecofont
Dutch marketing and design firm Spranq has come up with a great idea: a font that saves both money and the environment by cutting ink usage by up to 20%. And the new font, called the Ecofont, is free and open source.
Twitblogs Alpha Aims at Middle – Between Blogs and Twitter
Twitblogs is an interesting development, now in alpha testing, designed for “long winded” Twitter life streamers. It allows any Twitter user to either tweet normally, or opt for more “macro” blogging features.
Open Thread: How to Prevent Data Loss
Recently social bookmarking site Ma.gnolia experienced startup hell: complete and possibly irreversible data loss. That brings up an interesting discussion topic. What’s the best way to manage backups for a web site/service?
Bridging the Digital Divide Takes More than Just Access
Most of the world’s more than 1 billion net users come from wealthy nations and there is a growing divide between those who have access and those who don’t. At this point, just making access available won’t fix the problem.
Adobe is Walking On AIR: 100 Million AIR Installs
Adobe announced today at their developer conference in Japan that they’ve reached 100 million installs of the AIR runtime, and that Flash Player 10 penetration has his 55% in just two months.
The Branch: Twitter Ad Network That’s Not on Twitter
There have been a few different attempts at making advertising work on Twitter, and so far, none of them have succeeded. The Branch has a new approach to Twitter advertising that just might work: take the ads off Twitter.
The SEO Tool that Could Make SEO Software Unnecessary
Not every webmaster or site owner has the time and/or resources for in depth SEO. Even those that do would be well advised to employ Wall’s new toolbar for spot checks, SEO quality control, keyword research and of course, speed ranking checks.
President Obama uses RDFa
The WhiteHouse.gov site is CC licensing all its material, and if you peek behind the covers (view source), you will see some RDFa. Granted it is a small start, but it is a start.
It’s Quiz Time Again, With a Brand New Prize!
It’s quiz time again and this around we’ve got a double hot prize up for grabs! One lucky quiz participant is going to walk away with their very own copy of Adobe CS4 Web Premium AND Flex Builder 3 Pro!
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Google Launches Tools to Test for Bandwidth Throttling
Google has long been an advocate for network neutrality in the US, and their latest salvo in the effort to make sure ISPs must treat all traffic equally is the backing of a new lab that provides tools for users to test for bandwidth throttling.
