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cheat sheet of design patterns used at mailchimp

Interviews with five community managers.

The goal of iPad magazines is to Tame the unfiltered data streams and Produce quiet data.

77%-use their tablet every day

The goal is to burst the “filter bubble” and rekindle some of the sense of shared experience people get from reading the same top stories on the front page of a daily paper.

Great write-up on the early history of the online news business.

100% free for commercial use.

The world's largest collection of fonts.

Huge rant against the concept of the Social Graph and that human relationships can be smartly contained into simple categories (and then monetized).

Notes on locating the "triangle of life" from a rescue worker.

Text-based trivia game...

A game for font geeks.

blog post outlines some of the thinking behind The Guardian's ebooks which sell on Amazon and iTunes.

Third-Party Web Tracking and Anonymity, how third party sites can use web refer URLs to scrape out and match personally identified information.

Hand tool to create UTM URLs for Google Analytics tracking.

the real financial crisis in America is at the local level.

Today’s belief in ineluctable certainty is the true innovation-killer of our age. In this environment, the best an audacious manager can do is to develop small improvements to existing systems

Us Google Analytics to track hits on error pages and 404.

Recommended by Bostjan Spetic at Zementa. CRM tool built by salespeople for salespeople.

Lessons learned from Chris Tacy, Biz Dev at One True Fan.

Following their article page redesign, forbes.com is showing record traffic using a combination of new products and incentives.

great tool to automate repetitive tasks or set up alert conditions.

a simple list of 10 things I wish I’d heard when I was in college.

Investigative piece looks at working conditions inside an Amazon warehouse in Pennsylvania.

Create a virtual market to accelerate group decision making.