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User Driven Services put users in charge. Users start each interaction, manage the flow of the experience, and control what and how data is captured, used and propagated. Users are the cause and the controller, working with service providers to co-create collaborations that create value for all parties.

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kissa.be is shortener your url, email text and image and open source url shortener clone of tinyurl.

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URL shorteners are awesome.  The less characters, the better!  But what happens when that server goes down or some network issue prevents people from getting

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So if you really must rely on shortlinks for any reason, it probably makes more sense than ever to create or control your own link shortener…

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Microcopy is small yet powerful copy. It’s fast, light, and deadly. It’s a short sentence, a phrase, a few words. A single word. It’s the small copy that has the biggest impact. Don’t judge it on its size…judge it on its effectiveness.

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Low-voltage outdoor lights provide a pleasant alternative to this glaring example. They can be strategically positioned to highlight the plants and features you want to highlight. They can be used for safety—to illuminate paths, steps and dark zones where boogeymen hide.

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I've been using DIY versions of the Earthbox and upside-down tomato planters for the past couple years on my concrete, second-story balcony. Here's how I applied the Earthbox's wicking water concept to my upside-down hanging tomatoes.

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The Pompeii Oven is comprised of a number of basic components, which we will define here to give you a better understanding how how you will go about building your oven.

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In this post, I compare 16 file-sharing services. I took three main issues under consideration when creating the comprehensive app list below: Free, Fast, and Useful . . .

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Lightweight and flexible transformation of an unordered list into an expandable and collapsable tree, great for unobtrusive navigation enhancements. Supports both location and cookie based persistence.

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We're therefore happy to announce that Reader has begun adoption of the PubSubHubbub protocol, beginning with the publishing of our shared items. All shared item pages have feeds, and now all of those feeds will ping a hub (and there's a <link rel="hub" .../> element in them). This means that if you (as a web app developer) would like to more efficiently and quickly monitor Reader shares, you just have to subscribe at the hub to be notified of changes in real-time.

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Pop-up info windows: someone had to do it right, right? After years of pushy, worthless little window overlays that pop-up when you hover over a link, there are now a number of companies trying to offer bloggers and their readers a whole lot of value in what could be a handy format.

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Livestation went live with its application in June 2009, with BBC World News as the first broadcaster pushing live content to viewers in 16 European countries. The Livestation service being used by BBC World News offers two quality streams; 96Kbps on 3G/Edge and 300Kps on WiFi.

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After a short private beta test, JS-Kit just announced that Echo, its new blog commenting platform, is now available as a public beta. Echo aggregates conversations around a blog post from across the Internet and allows users to share their comments on Twitter, Facebook, and FriendFeed

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Colour is a powerful tool when it comes to design. It’s fun to work with and when you get it right it can really make a design.

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Take the most popular CMS, Wordpress, and then take the easiest and most versatile of Javscript libraries, jQuery, and you have a match made in heaven. Implementing jQuery within Wordpress is a lot easier than you would think, all you need is a little support from the huge WP community and a little patience, and you are good to go. Below you will find 30 Tutorials Combining both Wordpress and jQuery.

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Highslide JS is an open source image, media and gallery viewer written in JavaScript

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This article will introduce you to more than 25 jQuery plugins providing enhancements to how you can display images on your web pages. This is essential for creating dynamic state of the art web solutions. Lets get started!

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As I see it there are three methods to creating an admin system using the MVC framework CodeIgniter. In this article I will show examples of the structures for each and mention the pro's and con's of using each.
This article will only outline the theory and suggest the structures to you. I do not plan on writing yet another "How to make a user login system and add admins to it" type article.

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Here you’ll find a thorough overview of Viddler’s API, and all of its associated wrappers (for PHP, Ruby, and other common languages).

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