Bookmarks
Industry Relevant – Cool and Noteworthy Articles
- Yahoo! Developer Network’s article on “Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site”
http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html
Industry Relevant – Tools of the Trade
- 4Templates – http://browse.deviantart.com/designs/web/ – creative web design insight
- Google AdPlanner – https://www.google.com/adplanner – a free media planning tool, currently in BETA.
- Website Grader by HubSpot – “Marketing Reports for 400,000 URLs and Counting…” – http://www.websitegrader.com/
- Quantcast – http://www.quantcast.com – free demographics and audience measurement data for your web site.
- Firebug – a great plug-in/extension for web developers to use with Firefox – http://www.getfirebug.com/
- Chris Pederick’s Web Developer plugin for Firefox – http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/
Social Media – Sites of Interest
- TalkShoe Community Call Voice Chat, Group Calling, Teleconference Calling – http://www.talkshoe.com/
- RingSurf – create your own web ring!
Industry Relevant – Publications
- Adobe Edge Newsletter – http://www.adobe.com/newsletters/edge/
- DMNews – http://www.dmnews.com/
- DMNews Search Marketing – http://www.dmnews.com/Search-Marketing/section/230/
- DMNews Search Engine Optimization (SEO) 101 Web Cast – http://whitepapers.dmnews.com/whitepaper2419/
- eMarketing and Commerce (eM+C) – http://www.emarketingandcommerce.com/
- FOLIO Magazine – http://www.foliomag.com/
- Google’s AdSense Blog – http://adsense.blogspot.com/
- Google’s main blog web site (SEO tips, etc.) – http://googleblog.blogspot.com/
- Layers Magazine – http://www.layersmagazine.com/
- MarketingSherpa – http://www.marketingsherpa.com/
- Mequoda Daily – http://daily.mequoda.com/
- National Association of Photoshop Users (NAPP) – http://www.photoshopuser.com/
- SEO Chat – http://www.seochat.com/
- Specialized Information Publishers Association (SIPA) – http://www.sipaonline.com/
- Stock.XCHNG – http://www.sxc.hu/
- Universal McCann – view the research reports on right-hand side of web site – great info – http://www.universalmccann.com/
- WebProNews – http://www.webpronews.com/
Other Noteworthy Sites – Cool and Interesting Reading for Tech-Saavy Readers
- /commentable – “things geeks should know” by Dinarius Computers – http://www.dinarius.com/commentable/
- Paul Thurrott’s SuperSite for Windows – http://www.winsupersite.com/
Personally, I’m not a big fan of Micro$oft products, but I always enjoy learning more about new and emerging products/technologies. - New and emerging technologies for the web, etc.:
- Google Labs – http://labs.google.com/
- next.yahoo – http://next.yahoo.net/
- Yahoo! Research – http://research.yahoo.com/
- Microsoft Live Labs – http://livelabs.com/
- Microsoft Research – http://research.microsoft.com/
- Mozilla Labs – http://labs.mozilla.com/
- Adobe Labs – http://labs.adobe.com/
- seomoz.org – seomoz.org
