If you haven't joined the mobile web yet, you should really start thinking about it. 66% of 24-35 year olds already own web-hungry smartphones in the United States. +Webdesigntuts shows us how you can have one piece #HTML / #CSS code for your menus for both your mobile and "full size" visitors.
Check it out here http://bit.ly/wlFH3i
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Awesome Oatmeal comic about trying something as simple as watching your favorite show online http://bit.ly/Aeok0T
To quote Valve's Gabe Newell:
"We think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem. If a pirate offers a product anywhere in the world, 24 x 7, purchasable from the convenience of your personal computer, and the legal provider says the product is region-locked, will come to your country 3 months after the US release, and can only be purchased at a brick and mortar store, then the pirate's service is more valuable."
That said, Game of Thrones rocks! 
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Value proposition is the #1 thing that determines whether people will bother reading more about your product or hit the back button. It’s also the main thing you need to test – if you get it right, it will be a huge boost. If I could give you only one piece of conversion advice , “test your value proposition” would be it.
The full article: Useful Value Proposition Examples (and How to Create a Good One) at ConversionXL http://bit.ly/zoS2HF
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In the spirit of the latest "What People Think I Do / What I Really Do" meme (more at http://chzb.gr/A6accB), here is how #CMS developers view other developers and their favorite system. I think each CMS has it's own purpose and use but there no harm with a little fun Included: #WordPress , #Drupal , #Joomla , #WIX and #Sharepoint . Matrix image via +Ana Nakamura Bonus graph on web developers 
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Mark this as #fail of the week: Google.com was marked as a #malware distributing site by Microsoft Security Essentials program due to a buggy update. #Google was labeled as a “severe” threat due to being infected with the Blackhole Exploit Kit – a nasty sounding exploit developed in Russia that allows hackers to target Windows users. The error has since been caught and corrected… More at http://bit.ly/wmkGWF
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If you're building a site with multiple languages on #Drupal you're going to need two things: translation of the interface and translation of the content. The +Lullabot people have you covered on that with an extensive guide on how to have your site interface and your nodes (content) translated. http://bit.ly/wFB5Vk
Side-note: Trying to post a comment on the lullabot.com article was caught by the spam filter and I couldn't thank the author for it. That said, trying to use the contact form to report the spam filter malfunction had the same result: my message triggered a spam filter… (cc +Jeff Robbins)
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In it's quest to serve you the most accurate (ads and) information that you are looking for, Google will now match searches for illness symptoms with the actual disease you might suffer from. A search "abdominal pain on my right side" will provide a top-of-search-results box with possible situations such as appendicitis, ovarian cyst and hernia. Of course #Google is quick to note that this is not medical advice…
Full details at the official Google Search blog http://bit.ly/xGk5TT
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"We're gonna tour the world and we'll spread the cosmic love vibe all over the world and the universe, we're gonna blaze a trail of red hot funkiness everywhere we go. yep."
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This is the blog of Markos Giannopoulos, devoted to web development, technology, the internets, etc. I've been working on, in and around the web for the last 16 years. You can find me on Google+, LinkedIn and Facebook.
