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Secrets of Sidebar
Sidebar Creative, the freelance co-op (a brilliant idea), talk to Digital Web about their process
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Thunderbird gets its own company
Mozilla is creating a new company to better drive the development of its email client.
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The history of Amazon-ian tabs
A new design suggest Amazon might be going back to the past to tame its tabs.
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Sistr
An early sIFR alternative using Silverlight.
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The Times is free
The New York Times drops is subscription model, and also makes early archives and those from the past decade free to the public.
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Follow the commenter
Gawker Media is letting readings follow particular commenters on its blogs.
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Doing tabs right
Thirteen guidelines on how to use tabbed navigation.
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More on personalized news
Although the Daily Me isn't yet here, it's not stopping news outlets from experimenting.
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Visual-O-Rama
Poke the tires of Idée's amazing visual search tool (iPod for the bst 5 results).
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ONA 2007 finalists
CanCon: Two nods for the Toronto Star's "Lost in Migration", one for the CBC's consumer reporting, and one for The Globe and Mail.
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The radiated book
Eleven years before Vannevar Bush's seminal essay, Paul Otlet proposed any even more Web-like vision.
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Canada's venture capital crisis
Mark Evans looks at why investment in Canadian start-ups is dangerously non-existent.
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Detecting WebKit script
Don't do it. But if you really must find out which WebKit-based browser is visiting, here's a script for you.
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Le Monde goes 2.0
France's Le Monde has launched an impressive Digg-style news service called "Le Post"
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The day the news first stopped
When Princess Diana died, CBC experienced the same traffic surged many sites faced six-years ago today.
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Text as design misleading
Sometimes, if important information is overly-designed, and poorly placed, it can get lost.
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Real-time journalism
That this is considered an innovative idea still is shocking, nevertheless it should be repeated until real-time reporting is second-nature.
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Beautiful design critique
A Brief Message aims to offer a design opinions in 200-words or less each presented on an "art-directed" Web page.
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Defining (HTML) semantics
John Allsopp offers a comprehensive explanation of what semantic mark-up is and how it works.
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Google News to serve wire articles
AP, AFP, CP, and Reuters are licensing articles to Google News making the service less of an aggregator and more of a provider.
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