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32,129 | rokhayakebe | 2007-07-02T21:10:50 | Like J2me, wap, sms, IVR etc..? We are looking for a mobile startup co-founder? | null | http://cribornament.com | 1 | 1 | [
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32,138 | aaroneous | 2007-07-02T21:40:55 | Facebook Age Distribution (useful for those of you thinking of making a Facebook App) | null | http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2007/07/the-facebook-ag.html | 5 | 3 | [
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32,145 | farmer | 2007-07-02T22:13:07 | Working with Widgets | null | http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=22768&hed=Working+with+Widgets | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
32,154 | moses1400 | 2007-07-02T23:26:27 | Silicon Valley Star face-off: Kevin Rose vs. Jason Calacanis vs. Guy | null | http://www.centernetworks.com/silicon-valley-star-face-off-rose-calacanis-guy | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
32,159 | kkim | 2007-07-03T00:43:13 | Geni: 5 million Profiles In 5 Months | null | http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/02/geni-5-million-profiles-in-5-months/ | 7 | 6 | [
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This is not the number of registered users (Geni had 100,000 when reporting 2 million profiles), but rather the number of people put into Geni family trees. A user, after adding themselves, begins to add other people. If you include an email, that user is notified of the existence of the tree and can choose to sign up or not. Every non-deceased person who’s added, therefore, is a potential Geni user. That single viral component to the service will ensure orders of magnitude greater growth compared to established competitors like ancestry.com.
Geni has raised a total of $11.5 million in capital – the last round was $10 million on a $100 million valuation. They continue to add features that have proven to be successful at creating growth at Facebook and other social networks, suggesting that valuation may not be as crazy as it seems at first blush.
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More About Marc
Marc Andreessen is a cofounder and general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He is an innovator and creator, one of the few to pioneer a software category used by more than a billion people and one of the few to establish multiple billion-dollar companies.
Marc co-created the highly influential Mosaic internet browser and co-founded Netscape, which later sold to AOL for $4.2 billion. He also co-founded Loudcloud, which as Opsware, sold to Hewlett-Packard for $1.6 billion. He later served on the board of Hewlett-Packard from 2008 to 2018.
Marc holds a BS in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Marc serves on the board of the following Andreessen Horowitz portfolio companies: Applied Intuition, Carta, Coinbase, Dialpad, Flow, Golden, Honor, OpenGov, Samsara, Simple Things, and TipTop Labs. He is also on the board of Meta.
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a16z and Microsoft share policy ideas for AI startups so they can thrive, collaborate, and compete.
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In this special episode, Marc and Ben dive deep into the REAL story behind the creation of Netscape—a web browser co-created by Marc that revolutionized the internet and changed the world. As Ben notes at the top, until...
The time has come to stand up for Little Tech. Bad government policies are now the #1 threat to Little Tech. We believe American technology supremacy, and the critical role that Little Tech startups play in ensuring that supremacy, is a first class political issue on par with any other.
In this latest episode on the State of AI, Ben and Marc discuss how small AI startups can compete with Big Tech’s massive compute and data scale advantages, reveal why data is overrated as a sellable asset, and unpack al...
The gaming industry stands as a pioneer of cutting-edge technologies, ushering in innovations like GPUs, virtual and augmented reality, physics engines, and immersive multiplayer experiences.
In this episode, a16z cofounder Marc Andreessen and Andrew Chen, General Partner at a16z Games, dig into why a16z was compelled to establish a dedicated games fund. They explore the origins of tech pessimism, effective engagement with government in tech, its significance for the gaming community, the ongoing AI revolution, and even what Marc himself would build today if he didn't have his hands full.
“If America is going to be America in the next one hundred years, we have to get this right.” - Ben Horowitz
Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz discuss the new bestselling book Read Write Own with author Chris Dixon on the web3 with a16z crypto podcast.
"The Ben & Marc Show" features a16z's co-founders Ben Horowitz & Marc Andreessen. In this episode, Marc and Ben continue their in-depth exploration of the current education system. While Part I of their discussion unpacked the crisis facing higher education, Part II presents solutions to overhaul the modern university.
In this one-on-one conversation, Marc and Ben tackle the university system – what has certainly been a hot topic that’s been dominating the news over the past few months. As Marc states at the top of the episode, universities matter tremendously to our world, but they’re currently in a state of crisis.
Marc and Ben are joined by special guest Tony Robbins to discuss new breakthroughs in regenerative medicine, AI, biohacking, gene editing, mindset and why this might be the best time to be alive.
In an article that has sparked widespread conversation across traditional and social media, Marc challenges the pessimistic narrative surrounding technology today, and instead celebrates it as a liberating force that can lead to growth, progress and abundance for all. In this one-on-one conversation based on YOUR questions from X (formerly Twitter), Ben and Marc discuss how technological advancements can improve the quality of human life, uplift marginalized communities, and even encourage us to answer the bigger questions of the universe.
We are told that technology is on the brink of ruining everything. But we are being lied to, and the truth is so much better. Marc Andreessen presents his techno-optimist vision for the future.
TipTop creates tools that reduce the consumer code of owning products. They offer customers a guaranteed buyback price at the time of purchase, so they only pay for the product while they need it.
This week, a16z’s own cofounder Marc Andreessen published a nearly 7,000-word article that aimed to dispel fears over AI's risks to our humanity – both real and imagined. Instead, Marc elaborates on how AI can "make everything we care about better."
In this timely one-on-one conversation with a16z General Partner Martin Casado, Marc discusses how this technology will maximize human potential, why the future of AI should be decided by the free market, and most importantly, why AI won’t destroy the world. In fact, it may save it.
Read Marc’s full article “Why AI Will Save the World” here: https://a16z.com/2023/06/06/ai-will-save-the-world/
There's a full-blown moral panic about AI right now. But the real risk is losing the race to global AI technological superiority.
Back in August, after a16z announced our investment into Adam Neumann’s new company, Flow, it felt like almost everyone – whether it was other VCs, founders, or journalists – had something to say.
But the one person that you didn’t hear from was Adam himself.
In this never-before shared footage from a16z’s American Dynamism Summit in Washington DC, Adam Neumann sits down with Marc Andreessen and David Ulevitch, to discuss the opportunities that have emerged from post-pandemic shifts in both work and home, and what Flow is doing to capitalize.
In this episode, Marc Andreessen and Vijay Pande discuss expert AI and its role in healthcare, bio, and more.
In this episode, Marc Andresseen and Vijay Pande discuss expert AI and its role in healthcare, bio, and more.
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We’ve had some incredible guests join us on the a16z podcast this year, ranging from moonshot entrepreneurs, to top creators, to some of the most forward thinking technologists – all of which are busy shaping the future right before our eyes…
We have so much more in store for 2023 and cannot wait for you to see who we bring on as guests. But before we turn the page, we wanted to recap some of the most interesting, thought-provoking segments from our 2022 roster. Here are 8 of our favorite clips, covering topics from AI to space to the metaverse… and beyond.
With much coverage of technology lined with pessimism, the a16z Podcast returns to highlight the bright side of technology, alongside the founders building it. But before featuring the solutions in progress, we wanted to explore why building the future is still so important.
And who better to traverse this ground than a16z’s own cofounder Marc Andreessen, who has built and invested in the future time and time again, especially when it wasn't the obvious thing to do.
Together with Marc, this episode explores technology through the lens of history – including the three stages of human psychology as we encounter new technologies, how that process often manifests in regulation, when to change your mind, the Cambrian explosion of opportunity coming from distributed work, the importance of founder-led companies, and perhaps most importantly, we examine why there's still much reason for optimism.
To celebrate the LA community and the city's growth, a16z recently hosted Time to Build: Los Angeles, an event where we invited LA-based investors, founders, and operators from across a diverse range of industries to tal...
An Internet news outlet is asking a lot of people I know, and some I don’t, what I’ve been up to lately. Lord knows what they’ll ultimately publish, so I thought I’d just write this instead.
In this episode from October 2021, Michael Dell, founder and CEO of Dell Technologies and one of the longest serving founder-CEOs in the technology industry, joins a16z general partner Martin Casado, a16z co-founder Marc Andreessen, and host Sonal Choksi on the occasion of Michael’s book, Play Nice to Win: A CEO’s Journey from Founder to Leader.
There are lots of challenges in being public while trying to innovate, and limits to being a private company as well; but it's rare to see a company go public then private then back to public again. As is the case with Dell Technologies, one of the largest tech companies -- which went private 2012-2013 and then also pulled off one of the most epic mergers of all time with Dell + EMC + VMWare 2015-2016 (and which we wrote about here at the time).
Is there a method to the madness? How does one not just start, but keep, and transform, their company and business? Michael, Marc, Martin and Sonal debate these questions, as well as the impact of the cloud wars, how innovation happens when a company is private and when its public (something Michael knows well, having taken Dell public to private to back to public again), whether you can actually play nice to win as a leader, and more.
Our nation has a housing crisis.
In this episode from October 2019, a16z co-founder Marc Andreessen and former a16z podcast showrunner Sonal Choksi bring on MIT economist and bestselling author Andrew McAfee to discuss why the lessons of human growth in times past, from the Industrial Revolution onwards, might not apply to our future. It used to be that the only way for humanity to grow — and progress — was through destroying the environment. But is this interplay between human growth vs. environment really a zero-sum game? Even if it were true in history, is it true today? If capitalism is not responsible for environmental degradation, than who or what is? And where does (and doesn’t) technology come in?
The conversation is based on McAfee’s 2019 book More from Less: The Surprising Story of How We Learned to Prosper Using Fewer Resources -- and What Happens Next, ranging broadly across many areas of growth, from the future of energy and agriculture to the role of capitalism and technology today and tomorrow, from dematerialization to Tesla, Buckminster Fuller, and more.
These are edited highlights from a recent Clubhouse discussion among Hadrian founder and CEO Chris Power, a16z partners Katherine Boyle and Marc Andreessen, and Not Boring newsletter author Packy McCormick. The dialogue...
Marc Andreessen and Sonal interview author, consultant/advisor, and former pro poker player Annie Duke, in one of her first few appearances with us, and in a conversation quite unlike her other conversations. We cover a broad range of topics relevant to both companies and individuals, all about thinking in bets when it comes to innovation in your business or change in your personal life.
Welcome to 16 Minutes, our show on the a16z podcast network where we talk about tech trends that are dominating news headlines, industry buzz, and where we are on the long arc of innovation. Today’s episode actually features a look back at the GameStop saga — the stock market drama that some headlines described as a “David-and-Goliath battle” that “upended Wall Street.”
It's rare to see a company go public then private then back to public again, as Dell Technologies did -- and which also pulled off one of the most epic mergers of all time with Dell + EMC + VMWare. How does one not just start, but keep -- and transform -- a company and business, especially as it adapts to broader, underlying tech platform shifts like demise of PC, end of cloud, cloud wars, and much more? This is really a story about innovation: who decides, who judges, who does it, and where.
We were at an inflection point with the COVID pandemic, between old and new tech, science institutions, public health policy, more. So what can we learn from the past for the future? Former head of the FDA Dr. Scott Gottlieb (author of the upcoming new book, Uncontrolled Spread) shares stories from behind the scenes, debating probing ethical and policy questions with a16z co-founder Marc Andreessen and a16z bio general partners Vineeta Agarwala MD, Phd and Vijay Pande PhD.
On social audio app Clubhouse, Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz are hosting a new live show called "One on One with A and Z", where they go deep on questions submitted via Twitter. The show is based in part by a newspaper column that Andy Grove did in the 80s, where readers sent in questions for him to answer in his column.
In this mega-episode of the a16z Podcast, we've combined their first two episodes into almost three hours of discussion and debate about some of the most important topics in entrepreneurship, tech, and culture. Each of these episodes also initially aired on our new show, a16z Live, which captures and share many of the live discussions and events featuring, hosted, or co-hosted by a16z partners (with outside voices too) on Clubhouse and beyond.
For more than 100 years, companies have existed in a binary world, either private or public. Private companies have been highly restricted in how they can raise money, sell stock, provide employee liquidity, and otherwis...
Welcome, Sriram Krishnan, our newest general partner, to Andreessen Horowitz!
If software’s eating the world -- and more specifically, bringing costs down and increasing productivity through entire industries -- why have some industries, like healthcare, been so resistant?
How come things like healthcare, education, and housing get more and more expensive, but things like socks, shoes, and electronics all get cheaper and cheaper? In this episode of Bio Eats World, a16z founder and internet...
In this episode of Bio Eats World, a16z founder and internet pioneer Marc Andreessen and general partner Jorge Conde zoom out to discuss the large scale societal effects of the current pandemic on society, healthcare, bi...
Last year, I wrote about our series B investment in Applied Intuition, which builds simulation software and infrastructure tools to safely test and validate autonomous vehicles at scale. Now, just a little over a year la...
A wide-ranging Q&A all about education, from the purpose, past, and present of education; the economics of education (student loans & the debt crisis, government funding, cost disease, accreditation capture); tradeoffs of "hard" and "soft" degrees; and whether or not to drop out and go straight to field or startup. What's the best advice for students and others contemplating change in their careers... how do you get noticed?
This interview was recorded earlier this year and originally appeared on The Observer Effect; it has only been lightly edited for formatting here.
Marc Andreessen reads out loud IT'S TIME TO BUILD
Every Western institution was unprepared for the coronavirus pandemic, despite many prior warnings. This monumental failure of institutional effectiveness will reverberate for the rest of the decade, but it's not too ear...
Gaming has gone from a niche hobby to a massive global industry across all demographics and well beyond outdated, narrow stereotypes of “gamers”. In fact, games are not even just “games” any longer, but a form of enterta...
Many skeptics thought the internet would never reach mass adoption, but today it’s shaping global culture, is integral to our lives -- and it's just the beginning.
In this conversation from our 2019 innovation summit, Kevin Kelly (Founding Executive Editor, WIRED magazine) and Marc Andreessen sit down to discuss the evolution of technology, key trends, and why they're the most optimistic people in the room.
The creator of hit shows like Grey's Anatomy, Scandal, and others, writer and executive producer Shonda Rhimes shares lessons she's learned about pitching ideas, storytelling, leadership, and scaling a business across mediums.
In this special guest hosted episode -- cross-posted from the new show Starting Greatness (featuring interviews with startup builders before they were successful, hosted by Mike Maples jr) -- Marc Andreessen shares some rare, behind-the-scenes details of his story from 0 to 1... from the University of Illinois and Mosaic to Netscape.
Many skeptics thought the internet would never reach mass adoption, but today it’s shaping global culture, is integral to our lives -- and it's just the beginning. In this conversation from our 2019 innovation summit, Ke...
It used to be that the only way for humanity to grow — and progress — was through destroying the environment. But is this interplay between human growth vs. environment really a zero-sum game? Even if it were true in history, is it true today? If capitalism is not responsible for environmental degradation, than who or what is? And where does (and doesn’t) technology come in? @pmarca and @smc90 interview MIT economist @amcafee about all this and more, given his new book, More from Less: The Surprising Story of How We Learned to Prosper Using Fewer Resources — and What Happens Next.
As Steve Blank has documented in his “Secret History of Silicon Valley”, the origin of the American high-technology industry traces back nearly a century to the creation of such critical defense technologies as radar, el...
We at a16z -- and I personally -- are excited to partner with Qasar Younis, Peter Ludwig, and the Applied Intuition team to build the first and most advanced software supplier to the global auto and transportation indust...
What can we learn from the history of the internet for the future of crypto? In this episode of the a16z Podcast, general partner Katie Haun interviews a16z co-founder Marc Andreessen -- and co-founder of Netscape, which...
It's the oldest rule of disruption: People inside the company almost always see the next thing coming, but have a hard time being heard or driving actual change.
Editor’s note: This article is based on an episode of the a16z Podcast, which you can listen to here.
Back in 2011, a16z cofounder Marc Andreessen first made the bold claim that software would eat the world. In this episode (originally recorded as part of an event at a16z), Andreesseen and a16z general partner on the bio...
A lot in technology -- and venture -- happens in decades. New cycles of technology come and go, including some secular shifts; a new generation of founders matures; and so much more changes. So when Andreessen Horowitz (...
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32,241 | eastsidegringo | 2007-07-03T12:12:17 | How To Stop Worrying About Terrorists and Start Your First Business | null | http://tracksuitceo.wordpress.com/2007/07/03/how-to-stop-worrying-about-terrorists-and-start-your-first-business/ | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
32,243 | gibsonf1 | 2007-07-03T12:27:37 | Zoho Launches Facebook Apps: Web Office Meets the Young (Writer, Sheet, and Show) | null | http://www.rev2.org/2007/07/03/zoho-launches-facebook-apps-web-office-meets-the-young/ | 3 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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32,255 | dawie | 2007-07-03T13:48:51 | The Way To Wealth: The best business book is also the shortest | null | http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/503-the-way-to-wealth-the-best-business-book-is-also-the-shortest | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
32,256 | eastsidegringo | 2007-07-03T13:50:14 | Failing weather satellite has this weather startup wondering | null | http://stormpulse.wordpress.com/2007/06/29/the-failing-quikscat/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
32,257 | jasonalba | 2007-07-03T13:50:45 | Ben Yoskovitz - recently funded startup on "What's the Motivation to Start a Startup?" | null | http://www.instigatorblog.com/whats-the-motivation-to-start-a-startup/2007/07/03/ | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | no_error | What’s the Motivation to Start a Startup? | null | null | Starting a company is hard. Even uber-successful entrepreneurs like Marc Andreessen will tell you so. And no matter what you think you know about starting a business, you’ll be proven wrong time and time again.
Austin Hill beat me to my own post on the rollercoaster ride of startups, but his point is a key one: emotionally, be prepared for one hell of a topsy-turvy experience.
When starting a company, expect to face financial and personal uncertainty. Your own money may be at risk. You may be bootstrapping; watching the pennies disappear from your account is frightening. Troubles with partners are bound to happen. If they get too severe, you may have to get rid of them. Your family life will suffer – too many hours and too much brainpower invested in your startup…
The whole process of starting a business can get really, really ugly.
So what’s the motivation? Why do it?
Ask any entrepreneur and they’ll openly tell you all the reasons not to start a business. All the frustrations, difficulties and painful times. But then they’ll launch into all the reasons why you absolutely must start a company, and do it right away. Most entrepreneurs are like late night informercial maniacs when it comes to promoting the startup life to others. Here’s what they’ll be pitching:
Passion. The passion you feel as an entrepreneur – for the startup life, for your company, for your vision – is all-encompassing. You’re driven to succeed, to experience everything a startup has to offer, and to make things happen. Passion is a prerequisite to starting a business, and it’s also a huge motivator, because through your startup you fuel your passion.
Creating Value. Entrepreneurs are builders. Creators. We need to produce “stuff” in order to succeed. And that “stuff” needs to create value. It’s extremely motivating to know that something you’ve started has created value for others. And part of creating value is contributing to the entrepreneurial community on a whole. For me, this is a particularly motivating factor; I’m able to build a company, blog about it and communicate to others about my experiences.
Changing the World. Not every business has the potential to change the world, but many entrepreneurs take this mantra to heart. Lots of entrepreneurs believe their businesses will change the world. It’s part of creating value. Starting a business and tossing yourself into it with unequivocal passion, gives you the chance.
Being in Control. Entrepreneurs are control freaks. We believe we can do things better than others, and off we go! Having that opportunity is on one hand motivating and on the other hand scary – you’re in control, you’re the boss, you better get out there and make things happen. Luckily, being in control feeds many of the other motivating factors, so it all comes together.
Money. There’s no question that money is a motivating factor, although it belongs at the bottom of the list. The truth is that you can probably earn more money at a fairly high paying job, over enough years, than you can starting a business because of the likelihood of failure. But the only way to hit a financial home run is with a startup. You get to take your swing at the plate and aim for the fences.
Very few entrepreneurs start one business and stop. Whether they succeed the first time or not, many entrepreneurs are “repeat offenders” because the motivation for starting a business is so strong. The emotional rollercoaster that so many people describe borders on an addictive rush. Entrepreneurs crave the feeling of starting something new, disrupting the status quo, changing the world, creating value, generating wealth. It’s what entrepreneurs do. Few working opportunities will give you the same possibilities as starting a business. And few jobs, if any, give you the same motivations and rewards.
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32,264 | transburgh | 2007-07-03T14:16:18 | Stop hiring people to do your job | null | http://www.foundread.com/view/stop-hiring-people | 4 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
32,265 | transburgh | 2007-07-03T14:26:43 | Never Stop Cheerleading | null | http://www.gobignetwork.com/wil/2007/7/3/never-stop-cheerleading/10173/view.aspx | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
32,266 | gibsonf1 | 2007-07-03T14:32:02 | Straight dope from Fake Steve Jobs (very entertaining on Iphone AT&T etc.) | null | http://news.com.com/Straight+dope+from+Fake+Steve+Jobs/2008-1041_3-6194642.html?tag=nefd.lede | 6 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
32,292 | gibsonf1 | 2007-07-03T15:03:54 | Why the iPhone isn't really revolutionary (because it's locked to AT&T and not programmable - a repeat of 1991? (YC comments)) | null | http://www.slate.com/id/2169352/fr/flyout | 1 | 2 | [
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32,296 | far33d | 2007-07-03T15:13:35 | Top VC Firms (by number of deals) | null | http://www.entrepreneur.com/vc100/stage/early.html | 3 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
32,298 | Readmore | 2007-07-03T15:32:27 | Google buys GrandCentral phone service | null | http://venturebeat.com/2007/07/03/google-buys-grandcentral-phone-service/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
32,299 | tomh | 2007-07-03T15:33:05 | Announcing the Business of Software Wiki | null | http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/07/02.html | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
32,300 | tomh | 2007-07-03T15:36:30 | Web Domains: Tools to use, articles to read | null | http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/06/28/domain-tools-and-articles-about-domain-names/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | no_error | 8 Tools For Finding, Registering And Managing Domain Names — Smashing Magazine | 2009-08-29 08:02:57 +0000 UTC | About The Author | 6 min readBusiness,
Domains,
ToolsA domain name is the starting point for our online brands and identities, be it for a company, online application or a personal website. Some of us may own only one domain for a portfolio site or blog, whilst others have to manage domain names for clients or all kinds of projects. But even if you do not yet have a personal domain, as the Internet becomes more pervasive in our lives, finding yourself a real home on the web becomes more of a necessity.A domain name is the starting point for our online brands and identities, be it for a company, online application or a personal website. Some of us may own only one domain for a portfolio site or blog, whilst others have to manage domain names for clients or all kinds of projects. But even if you do not yet have a personal domain, as the Web becomes more pervasive in our lives, finding yourself a real home on the web becomes more of a neccessity.Of course, social web services like Facebook, Twitter, etc. do indeed offer usernames, but only domains give us full ownership and control over branding and ultimately how we express ourselves online.Many of the traditional sites that offer domain names are poorly organised, hard to navigate and covered in spammy ads. In this article we will have a look at a number of smart and user-centric domain tools which help you to find, register and manage domain names, other than the usual domain registrars or webhosting companies.You may also be interested in the following articles:The Effective Strategy For Choosing Right Domain NamesWeb Domains: Tools To Use, Articles To ReadGet Creative With Your Domain Name1. Domainr - domain search engineThe popular Domainr service comes as easy and clean as it gets. They call themselves a “domain name search engine” and solely focus on the domain search experience. Searching for a domain name is very intuitive and fast indeed. If you found a name you can choose from a list of registrars where you can register the respective domain.Apart from the standard .COM, .NET & .ORG domains, Domainr’s strength is surely the ability to find domain hacks with exotic country code top-level domain extensions e.g. burri.to (.TO - Tonga), lifestrea.ms (.MS - Montserrat) or cli.gs (South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands).Domainr makes the domain search process fun and is probably the easiest tool to find creative domain names in 2009.2. Domaintyper - search & generate namesDomaintyper is another simple search tool for checking domain name availability and generating domain hacks but offers some nifty extras on top. One of them is a Web 2.0 Domain Name Generator that generates available names such as sixtor.com, snapsink.com, skafire.com, 6graph.com, threeserv.com or atomslot.com. These names can be registered through links to various registrars. The second highlight is the DomainTyper iPhone application which brings the search and recommendation feature to your iPhone so you can check domain names on the go.Domaintyper is a well executed little project. Especially the domain name generator can be addictive.3. Domain Pigeon - find available namesDomain Pigeon’s approach is different to the search tools mentioned before. It automatically generates lists of available domains as well as Twitter names. The names are displayed in different colors, depending on how many people have showed interest in a certain term. The darker the color the more popular the name. You can also order the lists by length, popularity and show only domains or Twitter usernames. Examples of generated domain names are ablebo.com, meliori.com, minecafe.com or shopshost.com.Domain Pigeon is an ideal source of inspiration for domains and short available Twitter names.Namethis cannot only be used for domains but also for names in general. Instead of spending hours and hours in brainstorming sessions you just have to describe a project or product and receive name suggestions by the Namethis community. The service costs a fee of $99 which is distributed to the members that suggested the top three naming ideas.The Namethis community is a good resource to get ideas for your product or website.5. Rage Domainer - Mac softwareRAGE Software’s Domainer is a well designed Mac application for managing and tracking domain names. You can enter domains that you own along with some additional information or any other site you would like to monitor. It also shows domain-related data such as Page Rank, the amount of incoming Links, bookmarks on Delicious and Digg stories to a particular domain. Other useful features are syncing renewal dates with iCal, Smart Groups for organising and import / export of lists.Domainer costs $39.95 USD and is the most advanced domain management solution for your Mac.6. iWantMyName DomainApp - iPhone appDomainApp is a free application from domain management service iWantMyName that lets you search and register domains directly from your iPhone. Like their website, the application is very clean, user-friendly and intuitive. The domain search covers many international domain extensions and results can be saved as bookmarks for future reference. To register domain names you need an account with iWantMyName and connect the application via a remote key.The application is a valuable companion for brainstorming sessions, client meetings or the occasional fun domain registration.7. Tweetname - register domains via TwitterAs the name Tweetname suggests, it is a service that offers domain name registration via Twitter. All you need is an account on their site and send a direct message with the name you want to the @tweetname Twitter account. You will get an instant reply whether the domain registration was successful or the name is already taken.With Tweetname domain registration has never been more ubiquitous having hundreds of Twitter clients around. Whether you want to rely on Twitter for a domain registration is another question though.8. Domain Punch - Windows softwareWindows users find a domain portfolio software with Domain Punch Professional. Besides the portfolio management options, it also includes website monitoring options such as ping or an HTTP home page check and sends an email when the status of a domain changes. You can also save the login details to different domain registrars and login with a single click. Extensive filtering options, a domain name generator and availability checker are useful functions as well.Domain Punch Professional is the most feature rich software for domain portfolio management.Tool OverviewFind domain names with:Domainr - domain search engineDomaintyper - search & generate namesDomain Pigeon - find available namesNamethis - collaborative naming toolRegister domains via:DomainApp - iPhone applicationTweetname - Twitter domain registrationManage your portfolio using:Rage Domainer - Mac softwareDomain Punch - Windows software | 2024-11-08T01:17:41 | en | train |
32,309 | yubrew | 2007-07-03T16:16:00 | Hiring staff in India may not be worth it | null | http://venturebeat.com/2007/07/03/hiring-staff-in-india-no-longer-worth-it/ | 5 | 9 | [
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32,311 | brlewis | 2007-07-03T16:22:37 | Patent Wars: Local.com Nabs Local Search Patent | null | http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/02/patent-wars-localcom-nabs-local-search-patent/ | 3 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
32,317 | far33d | 2007-07-03T16:58:46 | Google Acquisitions by Year 2000-2007 | null | http://mashable.com/2007/07/03/google-acquisitions/ | 3 | 2 | [
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32,324 | Mistone | 2007-07-03T17:32:07 | The Five Critical Differences Between Referrals and Advertising | null | http://www.promoterforce.com/blog/2007/07/03/the-five-critical-differences-between-referrals-and-advertising/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | no_article | null | null | null | null | 2024-11-08T00:19:40 | null | train |
32,331 | johnrob | 2007-07-03T18:13:47 | news.ycombinator.com needs a section to discuss web hosting vendors | null | 1 | 1 | [
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32,345 | jsmcgd | 2007-07-03T19:19:55 | Things you really need to learn | null | http://halfanhour.blogspot.com/2006/08/things-you-really-need-to-learn.html | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
32,347 | tomh | 2007-07-03T20:11:15 | CEOs must be designers, not just hire them | null | http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/NussbaumOnDesign/archives/2007/06/ceos_must_be_de.html | 5 | 1 | [
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32,348 | chaostheory | 2007-07-03T20:21:28 | Living in a Batting Cage (or One Example of How Crazy People Have a Better Chance at Success) | null | http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/01/sports/01cage.html?ex=1340942400&en=6957d371a295eb7e&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss | 12 | 1 | [
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] | null | null | no_error | Life in a Cage: Baby Sleeps, Mom Cooks, Dad Bats | 2007-07-01T04:00:00.000Z | Lee Jenkins | AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTReggie Willits of the Angels lives in a batting cage with his family. Credit...Bryan Terry for The New York TimesJuly 1, 2007ANAHEIM, Calif., June 26 — When Amber Willits is cooking dinner — crack! — or putting the baby to bed — crack! — or trying to get a little sleep herself — crack! — she has to wonder why she ever agreed to live in a batting cage.“I may have thought that a few times,” she acknowledged. “But I never said it.”Baseball wives are an understanding breed. They endure 12-day trips and meals at midnight, and move their families from minor league towns like Yakima, Wash., to Pulaski, W.Va.But Amber Willits, the wife of Angels outfielder Reggie Willits, has taken hardball devotion to a new level. For the past three years, she has made a home, raised a son and helped develop a .300 hitter — all in an indoor batting cage.“I could not have gotten here alone,” Reggie said. “I have an extremely supportive wife.”At this time a year ago, he was a fringe prospect who had never started a major league game. Today, he is 26, the leadoff hitter for the first-place Los Angeles Angels, batting .337 with 18 stolen bases and a shot at the American League rookie of the year award.He credits his emergence, at least in part, to the cage he calls home. While other players travel long distances to workout centers in the off-season, Willits merely has to roll out of bed and start taking his hacks.“It’s very convenient,” said his father, Gene.Reggie and Amber never planned to live in a cage. In 2003, they decided to build a 3,000-square-foot house on five acres they own next to his family in Fort Cobb, Okla. The batting cage happened to be the first part of the house that they built.But when the cage was finished, Reggie and Amber saw a way to save money from his minor league salary. They did not have to complete the house. They could simply stay in the cage.From the outside, it looks like a warehouse, 60 feet long and 32 feet wide. But inside, it has everything a baseball family would ever need: a place to eat, sleep and hit.When houseguests open the front door, they see a small bathroom and kitchen on the right, and two sofas and a television set on the left. The floors are covered with Berber carpet. The dining room table is adorned with a vase of flowers. There are no closets.Toward the back, the pitching machine, the weight room and the master bedroom are clustered together. “I did put in one wall,” Reggie said.When he wants to bat, he pushes aside the sofas to form his personal playing field. He steps inside the net, suspended from the ceiling. If Amber is busy, he hits off a tee. If she is free, she feeds balls into the pitching machine. Amber stands behind an L-Screen, the kind used to protect batting-practice pitchers. Still, line drives sometimes rip through the screen.ImageGene Willits, above, father of Reggie Willits, said the batting cage was “convenient” as a temporary home.Credit...Bryan Terry for The New York Times“I know she’s taken a few in the helmet,” said Mickey Hatcher, the Angels’ hitting coach. “But that’s part of the game.”Two and a half years ago, the Willitses produced a bat boy, their son, Jaxon. They took him right from the hospital to the cage. Jaxon fell asleep to the whir of the pitching machine and the crack of the bat.When Jaxon was old enough to walk, he helped Reggie collect balls in the cage. And when Reggie left for road trips, Jaxon hit in the cage with his plastic bat.“He comes out dripping with sweat,” Amber said. “He looks just like his daddy.”Amber and Jaxon sat at Angel Stadium on Tuesday night, alongside other players’ wives and children. While the wives posed for pictures together, Jaxon showed off an Angels logo painted on his cheek.The Willitses are staying in a hotel in Anaheim during the season, but Amber and Jaxon will go back to the cage this summer. In addition to helping Reggie with batting practice, Amber is an elementary-school counselor in Fort Cobb, and she cannot be gone all season.Heading into spring training, the Angels knew they could count on veteran players like Vladimir Guerrero. Reggie, on the other hand, was just a kid in a cage.He made the opening-day roster as a reserve, mainly because he could run. But after an injury in April to Garret Anderson, Reggie took over a starting outfield spot and never gave it up.Until recently, he was not even the most famous athlete from Fort Cobb, population 667. He was overshadowed by his sister, Wendi Willits, who was an expert 3-point shooter for the Los Angeles Sparks of the W.N.B.A.Reggie is 5 feet 11 inches and 185 pounds, still waiting for his first major league home run. He wears No. 77 in honor of Kenny Lofton, a speedster who wears No. 7. But in Orange County, fans cannot look at Reggie without thinking of the former Angel David Eckstein.Like Eckstein, the shortstop who was the most valuable player of last year’s World Series for St. Louis, Reggie loves to work counts, lay down bunts and hit singles. Soon enough, Reggie will have his own house. He is making $382,500 this season, and in a few months, the place that he planned to build four years ago will be finished. Gene Willits, the family contractor, announced proudly, “The batting cage will be a thing of the past.”The new house has two stories, a large foyer and a view of Lake Cobb, filled with geese. The batting cage will stay in the backyard. But none of those features count as Amber’s favorites.“You know what is really going to be awesome about the new house?” she said. “The walls.”A correction was made onJuly 3, 2007: A front-page article on Sunday about the batting cage in Oklahoma where Los Angeles Angels outfielder Reggie Willits and his family live misidentified the location of Pulaski one of many minor league baseball towns in the nomadic life of players trying to reach the majors. It is in Virginia, not West Virginia.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT | 2024-11-07T08:31:56 | en | train |
32,350 | szczupak | 2007-07-03T20:43:43 | A beer startup that’s very funny… | null | http://www.businesshackers.com/2007/06/23/a-beer-startup-thats-very-funny/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
32,352 | far33d | 2007-07-03T20:57:29 | YC News used as a source. | null | http://venturebeat.com/2007/07/03/us-immigration-blocks-changes-to-workers-employment-status/ | 4 | 2 | [
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32,357 | vlad | 2007-07-03T21:18:38 | Designed For Windows | null | http://paulgraham.com/designedforwindows.html | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
32,359 | gibsonf1 | 2007-07-03T21:32:03 | IPhone: Will the Lock with AT&T cripple this great product like the Mac hardware lock of the 90's? | null | http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32295 | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
32,360 | kyliptix | 2007-07-03T21:40:37 | CRM for SMB - KiBS | null | http://www.kyliptix.com | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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32,365 | ariejan | 2007-07-03T22:00:34 | How to create and apply a patch with Subversion | null | http://ariejan.net/2007/07/03/how-to-create-and-apply-a-patch-with-subversion/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
32,366 | hoan | 2007-07-03T22:02:25 | Hey guys, can you check out my new wiki/writeboard for Facebook | null | http://apps.facebook.com/writeslab/ | 6 | 7 | [
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32,368 | darkseid | 2007-07-03T22:32:52 | The Digg Algorithm - Unofficial FAQ | null | http://www.seopedia.org/tips-tricks/social-media/the-digg-algorithm-unofficial-faq/ | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
32,369 | dawie | 2007-07-03T22:37:34 | Meebo is up and running on the iPhone | null | http://www.centernetworks.com/meebo-is-up-and-running-on-the-iphone | 3 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
32,371 | blader | 2007-07-03T22:52:28 | Mafia on Facebook | null | http://apps.facebook.com/themafia | 1 | 1 | [
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1. Trump wins presidency for second time (thehill.com)
1736 points by koolba 2 days ago | 8876 comments
2. ChatGPT Search (openai.com)
1480 points by marban 7 days ago | 1248 comments
3. Passport Photos (maxsiedentopf.com)
1474 points by gaws 1 day ago | 221 comments
4. Touchscreens are out, and tactile controls are back (ieee.org)
1286 points by pseudolus 4 days ago | 877 comments
5. Apple acquires Pixelmator (pixelmator.com)
1181 points by dm 6 days ago | 568 comments
6. Hacking 700M Electronic Arts accounts (battleda.sh)
871 points by mooreds 2 days ago | 154 comments
7. Useful built-in macOS command-line utilities (weiyen.net)
786 points by yen223 2 days ago | 232 comments
8. New York Times Tech Guild goes on strike (washingtonpost.com)
711 points by ChrisArchitect 3 days ago | 1240 comments
9. Trudeau government bans TikTok from operating in Canada (cbc.ca)
700 points by empressplay 1 day ago | 430 comments
10. Get me out of data hell (mataroa.blog)
691 points by pavel_lishin 5 days ago | 298 comments
11. Scientists glue two proteins together, driving cancer cells to self-destruct (stanford.edu)
684 points by Jerry2 4 days ago | 178 comments
12. Make It Yourself (makeityourself.org)
663 points by deivid 6 days ago | 94 comments
13. A change of heart regarding employee metrics (rachelbythebay.com)
632 points by zdw 4 days ago | 385 comments
14. An Update on Apple M1/M2 GPU Drivers (lwn.net)
623 points by MrBuddyCasino 7 days ago | 266 comments
15. Notepad++ is 21 years old (learnhub.top)
546 points by thunderbong 6 days ago | 245 comments
16. QNX is now free for anything non-commercial, plus there's an RPi image (qnx.com)
534 points by JohnAtQNX 13 hours ago | 242 comments
17. Show HN: Hacker News frontpage as a print newspaper that you can personalize (yourhackernews.com)
526 points by nimbusega 1 day ago | 122 comments
18. Title drops in movies (titledrops.net)
525 points by gaws 2 days ago | 163 comments
19. Diagram as Code (mingrammer.com)
506 points by ulrischa 3 days ago | 126 comments
20. We're Leaving Kubernetes (gitpod.io)
499 points by filiptronicek 3 days ago | 330 comments
21. AMD outsells Intel in the datacenter space (tomshardware.com)
477 points by baal80spam 2 days ago | 159 comments
22. New images of Jupiter (swri.edu)
462 points by 0xFACEFEED 2 days ago | 79 comments
23. Australia proposes ban on social media for those under 16 (reuters.com)
459 points by robbiet480 1 day ago | 488 comments
24. Wait Until 8th (waituntil8th.org)
459 points by zeroonetwothree 7 days ago | 333 comments
25. Learning not to trust the All-In podcast (passingtime.substack.com)
435 points by paulpauper 1 day ago | 268 comments
26. 98.css – A design system for building faithful recreations of old UIs (jdan.github.io)
432 points by OuterVale 2 days ago | 85 comments
27. Hacker Fab (hackerfab.org)
431 points by ipnon 2 days ago | 136 comments
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431 points by jart 5 days ago | 226 comments
29. Nvidia to join Dow Jones Industrial Average, replacing Intel (cnbc.com)
414 points by koolba 6 days ago | 222 comments
30. Project Sid: Many-agent simulations toward AI civilization (github.com/altera-al)
405 points by talms 4 days ago | 152 comments
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32,376 | ariejan | 2007-07-03T23:12:26 | How to Resolve Subversion Conflicts? | null | http://ariejan.net/2007/07/04/how-to-resolve-subversion-conflicts/ | 2 | 2 | [
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32,396 | brett | 2007-07-04T01:43:53 | Apple Developer Connection - iPhone for Web Developers - Optimizing Web Applications and Content for iPhone | null | http://developer.apple.com/iphone/designingcontent.html | 7 | 1 | [
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32,399 | bootload | 2007-07-04T01:59:33 | WHATWG community (nextgen dev of html & related tech to write/deploy web apps) | null | http://www.whatwg.org/ | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
32,400 | bootload | 2007-07-04T02:03:18 | WebKit Open Source Project (open source web browser engine - win/mac only) | null | http://webkit.org/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
32,403 | donna | 2007-07-04T02:21:59 | Let Your Customers Build Your Business | null | http://www.ducttapemarketing.com/blog/2007/07/03/let-your-customers-build-your-business/ | 6 | 4 | [
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32,404 | donna | 2007-07-04T02:24:54 | Starting Off Your SEO Campaign | null | http://www.seochat.com/c/a/Search-Engine-Optimization-Help/Starting-Off-Your-SEO-Campaign/ | 3 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
32,405 | donna | 2007-07-04T02:28:33 | How to Forecast Revenue and Growth | null | http://www.womenentrepreneur.com/article/248.html | 4 | 1 | [
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32,408 | donna | 2007-07-04T02:40:05 | The Motivation: Are You Giving or Receiving? | null | 2 | 1 | [
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32,412 | rms | 2007-07-04T03:03:22 | eBay To Craiglist: Game On With US Version Of Kijiji | null | http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/03/ebay-to-craiglist-game-on-with-us-version-of-kijiji/ | 3 | 2 | [
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32,421 | farmer | 2007-07-04T04:32:59 | Technorati Loses Three More | null | http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/03/technorati-loses-2-more/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | Failed after 3 attempts. Last error: Quota exceeded for quota metric 'Generate Content API requests per minute' and limit 'GenerateContent request limit per minute for a region' of service 'generativelanguage.googleapis.com' for consumer 'project_number:854396441450'. | Technorati Loses Two Three More | TechCrunch | 2007-07-04T03:44:00+00:00 | Nik Cubrilovic |
The news is just coming out that Technorati have lost two more employees. Tantek Celik has left after serving as 3 years as head of technology at Technorati and Adam Hertz has also left, after also serving for 3 years as the VP of Engineering. Both Tantek and Adam have played important roles in developing the technology at Technorati, with Tantek additionally being a spokesperson and evangelist of Microformats and other open standards.
From the blog post it appears that they have both left the company to pursue other opportunities. It is unknown if they are working on the same opportunity together, as they have left at the same time and worked closely together at Technorati. Having their two most important technology people leave is a big blow to Technorati. Tantek brought a lot of technical credibility to Technorati, which was especially needed as they have struggled with downtime and performance issues. Tantek was also responsible for a large part of the developer community that formed around the company and its services, and also played an important part in Technorati’s support for tags and microformats. Today you can find Technorati built into almost every blogging platform and their API being used in many different sites to display latest results, reputation and more. Technorati have had solid adoption amongst third-parties because of the level of developer evangelism and support that Tantek, along with others (such as Kevin Marks – who left for Google earlier this year) brought to the company.
It is yet to be seen what effect this will have on Technorati, as many third-party developers were loyal to the key developers at Technorati, most of who have now left the company. There were also many initiatives at Technorati, such as Microformats, that were being lead by the same key people who are no longer there. It also remains to be seen as to what will happen to those, and most importantly, if Technorati will be able to maintain their somewhat-lagging credibility with developers.
Update: It turns out that Technorati product manager Liz Dunn has also left the company, although there was no mention of it in Dave Sifry’s post. Liz has left Technorati to join Will Farrell’s Sequoia-back comedy video site FunnyOrDie as the Director of Product. Liz had been at Technorati for 18 months and was responsible for the new site they launched.
More to come on this story.
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Australian-born entrepreneur and hacker. Currently working in advisory and consulting positions, previously at Techcrunch, Omnidrive and a number of other startups since 2000.
Nik has over 15 years of experience as a developer, penetration tester and solutions architect in industries ranging from finance, manufacturing and real estate through to consumer web application development. Nik has worked for and continues to consult and advise startups, SMB’s, venture capital firms and large enterprises including a number of Fortune 100 companies. Nik has worked and lived in Australia, the United Kingdom, South Africa, throughout continental Europe and Asia and is now based in San Francisco, USA.
Nik has contributed to a large number of open-source projects and published a number of security vulnerabilities for various platforms and applications since 1996. Nik is an advocate of consumer privacy and security protection, applying cryptography to all communication, the Tor anonymity network, Bitcoin and a number of other security and privacy related projects and initiatives. In 2007, he was named in The Bulletin magazine as one of Australia’s “”Smart 100″”.
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We’ve all been there. The client says, “Just design it. We’ll flow the content in later.” Or the designer says, “Here’s what the page looks like. I just used gobbledygook for the text, cause that’s not my job.” Unfortunately, that’s no way to design a good experience. Article Continues Below
It may be fashionable to say “markets are conversations” or “design is about communicating ideas,” but how can that be true if the designers aren’t working with, or actually writing, the text?
User experience isn’t just visual design#section2
It’s time we designers stop thinking of ourselves as merely pixel people, and start thinking of ourselves as the creators of experiences. And when it comes to experience on the web, there’s no better way to create it than to write, and write well.
Let’s look at everybody’s favorite example of Doing it Right: Flickr. Ask a bunch of people what they think of their experience at Flickr and they’ll use words like “fun” and “friendly” to describe it.
Why? There’s nothing uniquely fun about black text on a white background. There’s nothing friendly about uploading and tagging, no matter how many whiz-bang AJAX tricks you use. Sure, the photographic content lends itself to a personal experience. But nobody ever talked about how much fun Ofoto was. And the community-oriented social networking features lend themselves to an emotional experience, but I think there’s something more going on here.
I say: It’s the writing. The friendliness comes from good old fashioned text. When you visit the site, it welcomes you with a random language. Hola! Salut! Shalom! When you log in, the button says “Get in there” instead of “Submit.” When you upload a photo, join a group, add a contact”¦all of the associated text is open, encouraging, happy, and excited. And it has a significant impact on the overall user experience.
Text is interface#section3
This is not just marketing text (though it’s that, too). It’s interface. This is text that can’t come from the PR department—it comes from us, the designers who are responsible for the user experience. The text is as much a part of the UI as the colors, the pixels, the stuff that designers are usually concerned with. Perhaps more.
Take another example—a site I just discovered, also in the photo space. Photojojo is a labor of love created by Amit Gupta and Kara Canal. It’s a weekly newsletter, and they’ve obviously spent a lot of time crafting the writing in the newsletter. But they spent just as much time crafting the words everywhere else.
When you get to the site, the homepage says, “Congratulations. It’s your lucky day! You just found one damn fine photo newsletter.” Below the email form, the anti-spam message doesn’t say something dry like “we will not disclose your information to third parties.” It says “We solemnly swear: No spam, not ever.” If you’re curious enough to read the About page, you’re rewarded with an entertaining story about how the two decided to start the site. No marketing BS, just two people who are really excited about what they’re doing.
Now, I’m the kinda guy who unsubscribed from every email list I was on in 1999 and never looked back. I hate email. If the site had used traditional language, I never would have signed up. But their excitement was contagious, and before I knew it, I was plunking down my address. A click on a confirmation mail and the message I get on their website? “Dude, you rule.” Damn right.
Beyond lorem ipsum#section4
So if you’re someone who hires designers, ask them what they like to read. Talk to them about their word choice in every button, every link, every title. Give them a crack at writing your about page. It’s the designer’s job to think about your site the way a user does, and tell them what they need to hear, and when they need to hear it. A designer worth their salt will be able to do it. And if your designer says, “I’m not a writer,” it may be time to find one who is.
If you’re a designer who doesn’t think of yourself as a writer, it’s time to reconsider. Buy yourself a copy of Strunk and White, do some research online, or take a class. Design is about communication, and it takes more than pixels to communicate.
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Search Engine Optimization. If you’re a web master, you’ve probably heard this phrase mentioned often. If you’re someone who has been doing web master work for years, you might not be very familiar with what search engine optimization (SEO) is.
That’s OK, as it’s not something that many people have learned about. While it’s not as common knowledge as it should be, SEO isn’t a very difficult subject to learn thoroughly enough. In fact, learning the techniques of SEO can actually be very easy. We’ll teach you all about SEO in this lesson ( Just kidding, we will need more lessons for this job ).
What is SEO?
SEO is search engine optimization. What does this mean? Well, it essentially means you are creating a site that is search engine friendly. Search engines, as you probably know, are responsible for a lot of your web site’s traffic. The more search engine friendly a site is, the greater the chance people using a search engine will find the site. Basically, by making your site SEO, you are increasing your traffic. That’s why SEO is a very important part of current web master work.
Search Engine Optimization Techniques
Now that you know what SEO is, you’ll want to know how to apply it to your web site so that you, too, can reap the benefits. There are several SEO techniques to learn, and we’ll cover three very important ones that you can apply immediately to your site.
Search Engine Optimization Technique #1: Keywords and Key phrases
The most basic SEO technique is that of the use of keywords and key phrases. Keywords are basically words that a search engine spider ( basically a program which scans web sites and reports its findings back to the search engine database ) is trained to find. If these words are found, the site is more likely to catch the attention of the spider and get listed. Key phrases are just like keywords, except they are basically two or more words strung together. For instance, a common key phrase might be “cool web sites”. Using such a key phrase or key word enough can really help a site to become SEO friendly.
Search Engine Optimization Technique #2: Correct Titles
If you look at the top left of your web browser, you’ll notice a piece of text that states what site you are on and perhaps also gives a brief description of what the site is. This piece of text is known as the “Title” of a web page. The title is one of the first things a search engine spider will notice when visiting a site. Thus, it is important to make sure your web site has a meaningful title. The title should not include excessive amounts of keywords, and whatever keywords you do use should be relevant to the site at hand. Spiders have been trained to spot sites with excessive amounts of keywords and they will ignore such sites. So don’t ever overuse keywords. If you have a site dedicated to PRS electric guitars, an appropriate SEO title might be something like “PRS Electric Guitars.com – “ Your source for PRS guitars”.
Search Engine Optimization Technique #3: Keyword Density
There is such a thing as overusing keywords, and it can be worse than using no keywords at all in terms of getting ranked highly on a search engine. Keyword density is the number of keywords divided by the number of total words in a page. So if you have 500 total words and 10 keywords, you’d have 2% keyword density. An appropriate keyword density is anywhere between 2% and 7%.Anything more than this is considered keyword stuffing; anything less than this is considered too little to make an impact.
Lesson 1 in Review
In this first lesson on SEO, we’ve covered a lot of ground. You’ve learned the basic principals behind SEO and should now be able to apply those to your site.
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