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How’s Skype Doing At MSFT? Usage Jumps 50%, Users Logged 115B Minutes Of Calls Last Quarter

In May of last year, Microsoft acquired everybody’s favorite VoIP and chat provider, Skype, for a cool $8.5 billion. It was a big move for Microsoft and a landmark deal, which it officially closed in October. Yet, as Frederic pointed out earlier this week, other...

19 July 2012

Freelancing 101: Don’t flatter your Customer

This is a guest post by Nicolas Acuna and Mikka Olsson, co-founders of Ebbex.com, an iPhone and iPad apps development company. In the last year, they’ve had great success (and committed a fair share of mistakes!) creating apps for clients all over the world and decided to share their...

19 July 2012

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Square, Google Wallet Have Mobile-Challenged PayPal Shaking In Its Boots: Enter card.io

PayPal announced today that it has acquired card.io, its partner company that allows developers to use a smartphone to capture credit information. In the mobile payments space that is becoming increasingly crowded with major players like Square and Google Wallet and minor upstarts like Venmo, PayPal...

17 July 2012

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PR Done Right: Facebook Engineer Apologizes On Reddit For Blocking Imgur Links

Facebook software engineer Matt Jones has taken to Reddit to apologize to users for accidentally blocking popular image hosting site Imgur while working to catch malicious URLs. The image below was posted by Redditer “AmericanDerp” and was upvoted 2,469 times with 663 comments in the...

17 July 2012

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OnlineMechanix Makes It Easier To Hire A Wrench Monkey

We all have a horror story: you picked a mechanic from the phone book, made an appointment, took the car in for a minor repair, and got it back with three wheels missing and the roof on fire. That’s why John Formento, Jr. and his...

16 July 2012

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HOW TO: Create a Simple Web Parallax Effect aka Javascript Animation

This is a guest post from Robby Leonardi, a designer and developer from New York and it’s based on his website. This tutorial will explain some of the techniques behind his website. 1. Parallax Effect on Mouse Move image 1.0. See the animated images First, all of images and their data...

16 July 2012

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Keys To Better Communication With Clients

I recently spoke with a prospective client who started the conversation by saying that he had called us because he was unhappy with his website’s current design and development team....

16 July 2012

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How Will The Web Monetize In 2020?

Editor’s Note: Murthy Nukala is the founder and CEO of Adchemy, a provider of advertising technology for large brands. On a whim, I recently purchased a Logitech Keyboard Case for my new iPad. Instead of being just a novelty accessory, the keyboard has fundamentally changed my...

15 July 2012

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Where Should Designers Draw the Line on Spec Work?

Contributed by Danny Groner at bigstockphoto.com. See the original blog post here. An important and lively discussion arose on popular design blogs late last year about the issue of spec work. Clients occasionally will ask for spec work (short for speculative work) when they apply for jobs. These assignments give...

15 July 2012

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Twilio Evangelist Builds Popular Phone-Powered Rolling Robot, Hints Flying Bot Is Next

So here’s something you may have seen floating around on Hacker News or elsewhere, but we thought it was cool enough to share in case you’re looking for something to do with your weekend. After all, there are few of us who don’t love stories...

15 July 2012