Analysing six Infographic design types
You can think of these six design types as differing by the way they are consumed. A process graph, like a flowchart or decision tree, is read differently than a single chart or a timeline. If we analyzed more than 30 graphics, we might come up with different buckets, but these serve the given sample [...]
How much money should you raise from an Early-Stage Investor?
Raising money for your startup is never fun. It takes time, distracts you from developing your product, is fraught with emotional ups & downs, and doesn’t have a guaranteed outcome. Frankly, many founders would rather go jump into an icy lake than take another fund raising meeting where they aren’t sure what they should say [...]
Europes data reform may stop a UK Facebook/Twitter
It will be difficult for the UK to be home to the next Twitter or Facebook, because of the “chilling” effects of Europe’s proposed changes to data protection laws, claim industry representatives. Industry trade bodies, including the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB); Interactive Media in Retail Group (IMRG); Coalition for a Digital Economy (Coadec); the Federation [...]
Tutorial: Using jQuery Masonry with WordPress – WPLover | WPLover
Check out the short tutorial on integrating Masonry, the jQuery layout plugin, with your WordPress site. For those of you that haven’t hear of Masonry it’s a dynamic layout plugin for jQuery that floats and moves blocks based on the size of your browser window. The full tutorial is from WPLover and you can find more information [...]
7 Creative Social Media Marketing Mini Case Studies | Social Media Examiner
Are you looking for some creative social media marketing ideas from businesses? Look no further. This article highlights seven mini case studies of businesses that have stood out by implementing innovative social media marketing practices. You’ll find inspiration for your social media marketing efforts here. So visit Social Media Examiner for the full story including Sharpie, Evian and [...]
Are we in a startup accelerator bubble?
In the past year, the number of startup accelerators and incubators across the US has grown faster than expansion league baseball. This growth led Jed Christiansen to base his master thesis on the impact and efficacy of the phenomenon. In 2009 Jed created a Google doc to track the seed accelerators. By mid-2011 he noted, [...]
Facebook timeline for brands
Shifting brand layouts to Timeline is the first step towards making brand pages “mission control” for featuring and distributing content. While the design updates of Timeline allow brands to express their identity in a greater more visual way than ever before, there are key updates that will affect a brand’s content strategy. New story layouts [...]
How Developers Are Shaping the Future of Music
That the music industry has radically changed in the last decade is a serious understatement. Technology has altered everything from the creation and distribution of recorded music, upending retailers, studios and business models across the industry. But it’s not all bad news. Music isn’t dying so much as evolving, and the landscape is already beginning [...]
I’m not advocating gaming SEO but here’s an idea for you…
We (SEO’s) all need to do link building and we’re always looking for great domains to get links from. If we can control that great domain that’s even better because then you can put whatever links we want on it. Obviously the issue with that is there is huge amount of time and effort associated [...]
Three websites I’ve found today…
15 minutes on the internet and I found some great examples of innovative websites – HTML5, CSS3 and in-video commenting…