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Professional creative tutorials & training. 100 Most Brilliant Tech Hacks You Need To Know Right Now. 20 Totally Free Web Analytics Learning Resources - aimClear® Blog. Sometimes when new search marketing clients realize the awesome power of modern analytics they ask us for guidance regarding learning resources.

20 Totally Free Web Analytics Learning Resources - aimClear® Blog

With a little hunting you can find useful (and totally free) blog-resource reading materials. Here’s a list of Analytics blogs whose feeds we’ve bookmarked. A Universe to Discover This is just a starting point for your journey. Though the links below represent a wide variety of free analytics information, don’t forget to check out each site’s technorati profile to see other which blogs have linked in. There is a universe to discover. Apogee Weblog – Apogee Web Consulting LLC’s founder Richard Ball blogs about small business growth, web analytics, and search engine marketing. eCommerce Blog – Groove eCommerce’s CEO Ethan Giffin blogs about subjects varying from SEO to analytics as well as industry and company news.

Google Analytics Blog – Google Analytics team official blog providing up to date news, tips, and resources. GoodUI. Periodic-Table-v2-bolder.png 979×633 pixels. Participation Inequality: Encouraging More Users to Contribute. 1% rule (Internet culture) Pie chart showing the proportion of lurkers, contributors and creators under the 90–9–1 principle In Internet culture, the 1% rule is a rule of thumb pertaining to participation in an internet community, stating that only 1% of the users of a website actively create new content, while the other 99% of the participants only lurk. A variant is the "90–9–1 principle" (sometimes also presented as the 89:10:1 ratio),[1] which states that in a collaborative website such as a wiki, 90% of the participants of a community only view content, 9% of the participants edit content, and 1% of the participants actively create new content.

Both can be compared with the similar rules known to information science, such as the 80/20 rule known as the Pareto principle, that 20 percent of a group will produce 80 percent of the activity, however the activity may be defined. The actual percentage is likely to vary depending upon the subject matter. Sturgeon's Law. 12 Addicting Websites You Won’t Be Able To Leave. 1. freerice.com Learn vocabulary and feed the hungry.

12 Addicting Websites You Won’t Be Able To Leave

Freerice.com is a vocabulary quiz site. For every right answer you select, they give 10 grains of rice to the hungry. Get all the way to level 60 and learn what anergy, mammock, and solation mean. The Evolution of the Web.

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Web Development. Shopping. 40 Online Generators for Web Designers Should Bookmark. Online Generators for Web Designers can be a great way to save time in your web design projects.

40 Online Generators for Web Designers Should Bookmark

High-quality generators can create graphics or code or even layouts in a matter of seconds or minutes, things that might take an hour or more if done by hand. Online generator are those tools that help us to create those popular “XHTML valid” CSS banners, micro buttons or css website templates in seconds. Home. The Ultimate Web Cash Flowchart. Infographic: A Gargantuan Map Of The Internet. What does the Internet look like?

Infographic: A Gargantuan Map Of The Internet

Is it computers or sub aquatic cabling? Is it satellites or code? Is it discrete websites and files, or is it just one branching, undulating cat meme evolving over time? Click to enlarge. To Ruslan Enikeev, the Internet is “nature, sky, space, science, and fractals”--an image he shares on his website, The Internet Map, which uses an association algorithm and a Google Maps front end to show 350,000 sites as their own universe. “For other people data and math is just numbers and tables, maximum graphs, but I can see more--its inner beauty. It took him over a year, with the help of Russian creative agency Positive Communications. When you couple this association with the country-specific color-coding, you see that China (yellow) and the US (blue) are in a clash of control of the Internet, with Russia (red) and Japan (purple) hanging around the periphery. 10 Useful Web Apps for Designers.

DesignWoop welcomes this guest post by Tomas Laurinavicius.

10 Useful Web Apps for Designers

Since the iPhone and iPad entered the market you can hear lots of news about apps for these devices. Tons of apps available today and you can find everything you want. But today I would like to share 10 handy web-based apps for designers. To use these apps you don’t need to buy an iPhone or iPad, you can use them without any additional software or device, you just need a web browser. In this collection I’ve picked 10 useful and time-saving web apps for designers. Invoice Bubble Invoice Bubble is free invoice software that lets you create an invoice and send to your client in seconds. Gridulator Tell Gridulator your layout width and the number of columns you want, and it’ll spit back all the possible grids that have nice, round integers.

Browize Useful tool for resizing current browser window size to set or custom resolutions. 100 Websites You Should Know and Use. Entertainment Meet David Peterson, who developed Dothraki for Game of Thrones There are seven different words in Dothraki for striking another person with a sword.

100 Websites You Should Know and Use

Among them: “hlizifikh,” a wild but powerful strike; “hrakkarikh,”a quick and accurate strike; and “gezrikh,” a fake-out or decoy strike. But you won’t find these words in George R. R. Culture.

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