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Ryan Nichols gives an overview of their rebranding of FOWA (Future of Web Apps). The breathless result was not by accident, but was very process driven. Great work.

The BBC’s Fifteen Web Principles

1. Build web products that meet audience needs
2. The very best websites do one thing really, really well

.. 13 more

Timothy Ferriss runs a thriving business — and spend more hours on sports than work, thanks to simple time management techniques that reduces his work week to only 4 hours.

17 New Rules for Successful E-Commerce

Using Flickr in your SEO & Traffic Building Strategy.

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Bryan Eisenberg of GrokDotCom asks “What Makes People Buy?” They have come up with 20 so far.

Edit: A comment linked to the following “Wants make the world go ’round … saleswise” which features a nice cartoon about how projects are badly run to figure out customer wants.

Interactive audio timeline of Typography in the 20th Century.

Sharon Lee lists 5 strategies for creating a Human-to-Human Design based on “two basic truths—that the internet is an interactive medium and that the end user is in fact human.”

They are

1. Respect me
2. Tell me a story
3. Engage me
4. Inspire me
5. Enchant me

Aaron Wall gives a list of tools one can use to track the growth of competing sites for SEO.

Sam Nurmi from Pingdom gives basic pointers on how to create an irresistible free trial for your app.