Sep
30th
2011
Stripe – trailblazing the way for more accessible payments.
posted in: E-commerce
Stripe – trailblazing the way for more accessible payments.

URL: http://stripe.com Unfortunately for many small startups and sole traders on the web  getting a merchant account for online payments isn't the easiest thing in the world. Combine that with the PCI compliance hoops, and having to worry about monthly fees, and all of a sudden things get c...

Sep
29th
2011
First Glimpse – W3C publish working draft of CSS4.
posted in: Web Design
First Glimpse – W3C publish working draft of CSS4.

Along with the Selectors3 recommendations, today, the CSS working group published the first public working draft of Selectors Level 4 on the W3C site. Yes, that's right, the first glipse of what eventually will become CSS4. So what are the standout points of interest for designers and developers?...

Sep
22nd
2011
7 ways to increase your visibility on LinkedIn
posted in: Social Media
7 ways to increase your visibility on LinkedIn

Published as a Guest post on leading Northern Ireland Jobs Portal - RecruitNI.com There’s no denying that LinkedIn is becoming a force to be reckoned with in the Recruitment industry. With more than two million business professionals joining the service over the past nine months, the total ...

Sep
22nd
2011
Why I don’t have much Klout – and why I couldn’t give a monkeys about it.
posted in: Social Media
Why I don’t have much Klout – and why I couldn’t give a monkeys about it.

One of the recent darlings of social media is Klout, the social media performance gauging service that apparently lets you see how influential you are across Twitter, Facebook and now recently Google+. Its hard to be active in these networks without seeing a K+ high five here, or a blog post there...

Sep
18th
2011
Crowdsourcing content to grow your traffic.
posted in: Social Media
Crowdsourcing content to grow your traffic.

Crowdsourcing is the new black, and there are a plethora of resources available on the web for a variety of applications.  Millions of volunteers have performed tasks such as cataloging Martian landforms and translating text into machine-readable form. If you've ever been frustrated by Captcha form...

Sep
11th
2011
10 inspiring HTML5 sites you really should see.
posted in: Web Design
10 inspiring HTML5 sites you really should see.

Pupunzi URL: http://pupunzi.com Matteo Bicocchi is an Italian graphic designer - and co-founder of Open Lab Matteo is a bit of a javascript wizard, and he's used this experience along with the power of HTML5 to create a truly engaging experience on Pupunzi.com - where his work and creativi...

Sep
08th
2011
It’s on. Like Donkey Kong in HTML5
posted in: Web Design
It’s on. Like Donkey Kong in HTML5

Kool by name, and cool by nature, creative Director at Dutch agency Q42 Martin Kool, has a penchant for adventure games, and no stranger to bending the rules to bring classic gaming to the browser, has released this video on YouTube showing what he has managed to build with nothing more than HT...

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