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Reputation system – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (tags: wikipedia reputation community) Designing Your Reputation System (tags: reputation system score slideshow ratings web2.0 usability)

AskTog: First Principles of Interaction Design (tags: webdesign usability ui) TechCrunch50 » TechCrunch50. It’s like TechCrunch40, but better! (tags: techcrunch startup web2.0)

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BARcamp – Chicago (tags: chicago barcamp) catalogtree 4.0 (tags: visualization inspiration infovis typography statistics) Finding your startup's "moment" the moment we've been waiting for. (tags: startup entrepreneurship) 8 Simple Steps to Build Traffic For Your Internet Startup | Scoreboard Media Group (tags: webdesign web2.0 traffic)

Putting a Value on a New Venture (tags: venture startup valuation presentation investor) 5 Useful Coding Solutions For Designers and Developers | CSS | Smashing Magazine (tags: webdevelopment webdesign web2.0 useful)

30+ Ways to Create an Incredible Client Experience – FreelanceSwitch – The Freelance Blog Hmm, some of these are actually not that bad… (tags: inspiration development business) The MFA is the New MBA | HBR IdeaCast | BNET Intercom | BNET well, duh (tags: mba design innovation) Stevey's Blog Rants: Business Requirements are Bullshit (tags: [...]

Calculate the TAM (top down), SAM (bottoms up) and SOM of a web site? – Yahoo! Answers I always wondered what the difference was. Thanks for clarifying (tags: marketing vc presentation) How To Demo Your Startup 1. Show your product within the first 60 seconds 2. The best products take less than five minutes to [...]

Blogs that teach? | Ask Metafilter (tags: learning blogs learnt)

Because I’m not a freaking Nazi. pretty fun stuff, via techcrunch.

The NYTimes ran an article very relevant to design. According to the article, The Macklin Intergenerational Institute developed a program called Xtreme Aging as a sensitivity training program for schools, churches, workplaces and other groups that have contact with the elderly. Increasingly, these types of simulation programs are going to be important for designers to [...]

apophenia: The Economist Debate on Social "Networking" (tags: technology socialsoftware socialnetwork learning) Recipes for Success (tags: learning information design webdev) Function Web Design & Development [ Blog ] » Creative Domain Names: Some Clever Alternative Methods (tags: inspiration domain naming web startup) 101 Awesome Portfolio Sites | DesignM.ag (tags: portfolio inspiration websites webdesign resource) Learning, [...]

Making Espresso: Rituals and Techniques for Brewing (tags: food espresso coffee tutorial)