Facebook Is The Ant; Zynga Is The Grasshopper

Facebook Is The Ant; Zynga Is The Grasshopper Editor’s note: Adam Rifkin is co-founder and CEO of PandaWhale, an online network of interesting things and people. He has never owned Facebook or Zynga shares. . You can follow him @ifindkarma. Facebook and Zynga have experienced similar roller coaster-like devaluation from their peak stock valuations, and they’ve been partners for years, which is why...

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Facebook Groups Let You See Exactly Who Has Viewed Your Photos, Too

Facebook Groups Let You See Exactly Who Has Viewed Your Photos, Too In July, Facebook rolled out a new “seen by” feature for groups, which let people know who has seen a post or announcement in that group, and when. And, although Facebook didn’t make much of a song and dance about it at the time, it looks like it is actually offering this feature on photos, too. As you can see in the screenshot...

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Facebook: A Fate More Similar To Yahoo Or Google?

Facebook: A Fate More Similar To Yahoo Or Google? Editor’s note: David Cho is CEO and co-founder of Sidebark, the private photo and video sharing service.  Prior to founding Sidebark, he was a leader in Bain & Company’s digital media practice. How much more valuable do you think Facebook is than Yahoo?  Let’s say I gave you 1% of Facebook’s stock.  How much of Yahoo would I have to...

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7 questions asked by noob designers, answered

7 questions asked by noob designers, answered Anyone who writes about web design or runs a web design blog (like this one) is bound to get questions from new designers on a pretty regular basis. And most of us try to answer those questions as time allows (which, unfortunately, isn’t as often as I’d like). Since time can be an issue, I’ve pulled together some of the most common questions that get asked over and over...

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Great jQuery plugins for fresh websites

Great jQuery plugins for fresh websites One can only imagine how tough it was to practice web design back when everything seemed so new — during the days of Netscape Navigator and Microsoft FrontPage. Looking back, it seems like such an archaic time in the history of web design. It was almost impossible to design something of supreme and intelligent creativity. Back then, you were seen as creative if you had an awful...

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YouTube Ranking Factors - Whiteboard Friday

YouTube Ranking Factors - Whiteboard Friday   This week for Whiteboard Friday we are taking a look at how to get a video to rank on YouTube. Each month YouTube receives over 800 million unique visitors who watch more...

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15 Tips to Speed Up Your Website

15 Tips to Speed Up Your Website This post was originally in YouMoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author's views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, Inc. After seeing some tweets and analyzing the SEOmoz website, I decided to write some tips and tricks that candecrease pages load time as much as possible....

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