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Rob Howard is the CTO/founder of enterprise collaboration software company Telligent.A 2008 Gartner study on social software noted that “about 70 percent of the community typically fails to coalesce.” While the measurement and the statistics…. [...]
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Editor Michael Nolan walks writer Aarron Walter through the fine points. Photo: Ari Stiles. All our Big Web Show interviews are personal to me and feature people who make a difference in our community, but this week’s guest is especially special. Michael J. Nolan (@mikaln) is the acquisitions editor who “discovered” me, and who has [...]

Sometimes, you have a little something to share, but because your “little something” is a snippet of code or a slice of design, the traditional tools for sharing don’t quite fit…
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In 2008, Derek Powazek, who knows more about community on the web than just about anyone, shared 10 Ways Newspapers Can Improve Comments. It was a great read then, and still is, distilling of 15 years of online community experience into a brief, punchy list. If comments on your site aren’t where you want them [...]

Colourlovers is a global community for all kinds of designers and artists who visit the site to get inspiration, ideas and opinion for both their professional as well as personal projects. COLOURlovers’ dedicated members create colors, palettes and patterns to cultivate their enduring love affair with color. These members can join color-inspired groups and forums [...]

“Here it is, our next Web Trend Map. No Metro lines, no URLS. This time, it’s the 140 most influential people on twitter, sorted by #name #handle #category #influence #activity. Plus: When they started tweeting and what they first said. …”
Where does the data come from?
“We analyzed the data in our Web Trend Engine (30gigs), [...]

As promised, a super-hot update to A Feed Apart, the official feed aggregator for An Event Apart, is up and running for your web design conference pleasure. You can now tweet from inside the application, and can even arrange meet-ups and make other social connections there.
Must-read: Designer Ali M. Ali talks about the interface design.
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Morning finds me bound by train for Boston, capital of Massachusetts, land of Puritans, patriots, and host of the original Tea Party. Center of high technology and higher education. Where the John Hancock Tower signs its name in the clouds, and the sky-scraping Prudential Tower adds a whole new meaning to the term, “high finance.” [...]

WordPress 3.0 is, without doubt, one of the most exciting updates to the platform in a very long time.
As well as things that all users will notice such as custom menus, custom backgrounds and a new default theme, there are also massive additions to the code-base such as the ability to run multiple sites from [...]

TypeFaces web designer playing cards are the shiz! I want!
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