The first version of Google, Facebook, YouTube and more (and what they can teach us about starting small) 6.5K Flares Filament.io 6.5K Flares × “The best things we know and love started as tiny things.” — Joel Gascoigne Buffer’s CEO, Joel, wrote a post not too long ago about the importance of starting small with new projects. He makes some great points about how easy it is to see the finished product of someone else’s hard work and forget about how long it took them to get to that point: “It’s difficult to understand how the evolutionary process of products and brands contributes and is vital to what they are today.” Joel goes on to say that success is more likely when we execute on small projects. “Don’t even try to build startups. To give us a little insight into just how simple some of the today’s juggernaut web companies were when they started out, I thought it would be fun to do some time traveling in the Wayback Machine. So let’s take a look at how these major companies evolved from their humble beginnings: Facebook — “Be in it for the long haul.” Google — “Do one thing well” Yahoo! Yahoo!
8 ways to generate website ideas | Irish Internet Entrepreneur - Smemon Having seen the success of my ‘18 random website ideas‘ post, i decided to put together another list. But not a list of ideas…. a list of how to come up with ideas…. That post has now had over 10,000 views, the majority of which have come from Google, so i know there’s plenty of people out there looking for ideas, and looking to create websites. Here’s 8 tips i’ll give you… 1. Sit down, relax, gather your thoughts Sometimes, ideas will just come to you after seeing something that just ‘sparks’ a bit of creativity in you. So rather than trying to come up with ideas when working or talking to people, dedicate time to it… give the ‘idea thinking process’ your full attention. 2. You should be asking yourself questions like; what sites do i visit on a regular basis and what annoys me about them? If you focus primarily on the cash, you’ll get completely different ideas. 3. Look for reviews, expert advice, check out forum posts – believe me, it saves you time and cash in the long run. 4. 5. 6. 7.
10 Websites That Help You Discover the Best Web Apps | Inspired If you’re watching the blogosphere close enough, you can observe a new trend coming along pretty quick – the application blog, whether is focused on iPhone apps, Mac apps, Air apps, web apps, or all of them. Today we’re gonna talk about the best web apps blogs, with daily tools that will save you lots of time or – on the contrary – gonna lose the whole day playing with. Please feel free to suggest others in the comments. Useful Tools A web magazine for people who love web tools and apps. Feed My App Feedmyapp is a Web 2.0 Directory with the best and latest web 2.0 sites, daily updated. Web Appers WebAppers is a blog dedicated to share top quality open source resources for web developer and web designer daily. Creative Applications CreativeApplications.Net [CAN] was launched in October 2008 by Filip Visnjic, architect, lecturer, new media technologist, entrepreneur and most recently a blogger. Web App Storm The Museum of Modern Betas Ziipa Launchly Lovely Pages Webware Say No to boxed software!
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3 Nov 2006 - @ | rsa: @ buzz - you broke your thumb... 30 Striking Examples of Silhouette Photography | Digital Picture Zone Posted on Aug 07, 2009 | Comments 50 251.2K Flares251.2K Flares × A silhouette is defined as an outline that appears dark against a light background. More specifically, it is where your subject is seen as a black shape without detail against a brighter background. Several things require attention when photographing a silhouette. Silhouettes are a wonderful way to convey drama, mystery, emotion and mood to the viewers of your photos. We hope you enjoy these 30 stunning examples of Silhouette Photographs. ( photo by Thomas Hawk ) ( photo by Phottographer from phuket ) ( photo by muha.. ) ( photo by sharkbait ) ( photo by Random Images from The Heartland ) ( photo by pmarella ) ( photo by marj k ) ( photo by T J Scott ) ( photo by prateek_pk, someone gift me a pro account ) ( photo by Wei Bunn ) ( photo by Philipp Klinger ) ( photo by an untrained eye ) ( photo by tanakawho ) ( photo by ahmed(John) ) ( photo by Tomaocron ) ( photo by carf ) ( photo by Mr.Bones ) ( photo by six_austins ) (photo by simpologist )
50 Free High-Quality and “New” (X)HTML/CSS Templates | Noupe Jul 02 2009 In this post, we’ll showcase 50 Free high-quality & New (X)HTML/CSS template (some of them include the PSD-source files). You will also find among these elegant templates a very well written step-by-step tutorials showing you how to create your own. Hopefully some of these will meet your expectations and come in handy in your projects. You will have to check the license first for any restrictions or guidelines before using any template. Shape View Demo | Download 2 Breed This template was fascinated by nature, with attractive and vibrant colors. View Demo | Download Environment Brand Design View Demo | Download DelliStore This is a full px-based, cross-browser-compliant (X)HTML/CSS-template (IE 6, IE 7, Firefox, Safari, Google Chrome). View Demo | Download Organic Template Design View Demo | Download The Old Forest View Demo | Download Motion View Demo | Download Package View Demo | Download 101 design blog View Demo | Download ec mania View Demo | Download Fashion Club View Demo | Download Charcoal
Paris et Lyon, les deux villes où l'on travaille le moins - Selon une étude comparative sur le pouvoir d'achat réalisée dans 73 villes par la banque suisse UBS, Paris et Lyon seraient les deux villes où l'on passe le moins de temps à travailler, tandis que les villes asiatiques et du Proche-Orient seraient les plus zélées. Selon cette étude intitulée "Prix et salaires", publiée mercredi 19 août, la durée annuelle moyenne de travail dans le monde est de 1 902 heures. Elle est de 1 582 heures à lyon et de 1 594 heures à Paris, les deux seules villes françaises retenues pour cette étude. Les travailleurs ont également beaucoup de temps libre à Madrid, Copenhague et Nicosie. L'étude ne distingue cependant pas le temps passé au travail du temps effectivement travaillé. En Europe occidentale, les plus grands travailleurs se trouvent dans les villes suisses et à Athènes. L'étude de la banque suisse s'intéresse également aux différences de salaires et de pouvoir d'achat.
2006 | The first-ever hashtag, @-reply and retweet, as Twitter users invented them Twitter is pretty simple, but it started out even simpler. The 140-character messaging service launched on March 21, 2006 with no way to send a reply or retweet someone. And it certainly didn’t have hashtags. Those peculiar conventions, which make Twitter both irresistible and confounding today, were invented by its users. After a while, the company picked up on each trend and adopted it as an official part of the service. Now, the @ and # symbols are among the most crucial elements of Twitter’s identity. The first @-reply @ buzz – you broke your thumb and youre still twittering? The at symbol has a long history of indicating replies on the internet, from message boards to chat rooms. Anderson’s tweet was hardly the first to include an @, but the previous uses were mostly shorthand for the word “at,” usually in reference to a location. The emergence of @ to mean a reply was a crucial development in Twitter’s history. @-replies caught on quickly from there. The first hashtag
Creators - Dedicated to inspiring designers, inventors & the creative spirit in all of us. August 22, 2013 Artist’s Work Paints a Beautiful Picture Animations Tyrus Wong, a 102-year-old artist’s work influenced the visual direction of Bambi in 1941. An exhibition at the Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco will be held to celebrate Wong’s work. According to the Disney Museum site, the drawings felt different from what is commonly known for Disney animation and this is what caught Walt Disney’s eye. Copyright Davison 2013 Sources: August 20, 2013 Hope “Floats” for those with Carpal Tunnel Product Innovation This levitating wireless computer mouse was invented by Vadim Kibardin of Kibardin Design, in order to help prevent and treat the contemporary disease, carpal tunnel syndrome. The levitating mouse consists of a mouse pad base and a floating mouse with a magnet ring. Source: August 15, 2013 Pin It
The Ultimate Guide to Setting up WordPress after an Install | Pr There are a few essential steps that need to be taken with any new wordpress install. Obviously not every wordpress blog will be the same but there are some basics that I feel should be done regardless of what kind of blog you’re creating. Here we’ll go through 10 steps that are essential to preform after any wordpress install including a list of 10 plug-ins that are a must for blogs of any type. Step 1 – Change Permalink Structure When you go to Settings > Permalinks, you’ll notice that the default permalink is I would suggest a custom structure here using only the post title ( which will provide some keywords for search engines as well as giving your readers something to go on. Some people choose to add in the category ( however, if you want to assign multiple categories to a single post, you will have to work out a way to deal with duplicate links. Step 2 – Set up Authors Step 6 – Set up Feedburner
Coca-Cola vs. Pepsi, Revised Edition In Brief BY Armin In the last couple of weeks, a JPG has been making the internet rounds and, in the process, has gathered more than 6,500 Diggs (not that that is any measure of successful success, but still…) and has been mentioned in dozens of design and culture blogs, including many which I frequent and respect. The problem is that the JPG is wrong and disingenuous. It comparatively illustrates the evolution of the Pepsi and Coca-Cola logos from their beginnings in the late nineteenth century to their current state at the end of the 2000s. The comparison chart mocks the ever-changing personality of the Pepsi logo in contrast to Coca-Cola’s stoic script logo, unaffected by the effects of time. Pepsi vs. True, no one will die and the lasting effects of this JPG mean nothing, really. First Coca-Cola logo appeared in the Atlanta Journal Constitution on Saturday May 23 1886. The chart, for comic and poignant effect, then leaves a 120-year gap between the first and last logos.
Minitel Research Lab, USA 50 Beautiful Photographs Of A Cloudy Day | Inspiration | PelFusion.com Nature in its vivid colours amazes and inspires everyone in different ways. It could be a sunset, a sun-rise, the flowers or a cloudy day. Photographing a cloudy day is an art that requires the photographer to make the best use of the natural light. Below you will see a collection of 50 beautiful examples of cloud photography taken by professional photographers. By seeing these beautiful photographs I hope everyone of you will have a desire to be part of it. Storm by Ray Griffiths Source Wooden Shoe Tulip Farm by Jason Friesen Source Horseshoe Pond at Presque Isle State Park by Erie Pa Source Bank of Montreal at top by Guajava Source Coast of Kuwait City by khalid almasoud Source Lake Forest, CA by Mine Beyaz Source Downtown Houston by J-a-x Source Arizona Railway Museum by Bridgepix Source Alberta Tornado Watch by Schlegl Source Zuiderkerk – Amsterdam by MorBCN Source Windmill on a Cloudy Canal by Trey Ratcliff Source New Melones Lake by Encouragement Source Lake District National Park, Cumbria by 3amfromkyoto Source Source