Open Tag Directory: Lead+Underwriter

World?s Most Expensive Foods (1 Citations)

The world of the rich and famous is fascinating for many of us. They lead the life many of us want and they do what we only dream of us. Being a food fanatic, this time we?ll have a look at the most expensive foods in the world, most expensive drinks, deserts or spices., blogmarks.net

Vitamin Features � How to recreate Silverback?s Parallax (1 Citations)

Parallax scrolling is a psuedo-3D effect often used in side scrolling games to create depth. In this article Clearleft lead designer Paul Annett explains how he used the effect to great success on their newly launched Silverback site., blogmarks.net

Read The Words (1 Citations)

ReadTheWords.com began as a simple concept in January 2008: To assist students with learning disabilities with their studies, by means of auditory learning and auditory processing. To that end we seeked out programers, technologies, and research departments from around the world and came up with a very basic platform, far less sophisticated than what you currently see on our website. Although we had originally intended this site to be used for auditory learning, through our researching efforts we found that the demand for this technology reaches far beyond our originally intended audience. Many other students, young professionals, actors and actresses, research departments, bloggers, ecommerce sites, and others, expressed how this technology could help them with their daily lives, and their businesses. For this reason, we went back to the drawing board and added more features to meet more users? needs. ReadTheWords created multiple input methods for users to create readings. We also greatly expanded our efforts to allow users take full advantage of the created readings as mp3?s. In particular, we found that Bloggers are constantly looking for ways to reach a larger audience and we, in turn, have found a way to meet this need by enabling them to create podcasts and share them with their readers. We also created a platform for bloggers and website operators to paste an audio toolbar in their website or blog, making it possible for any reader to become a listener. The feedback has been overwhelming and we continue to add new features and users to our site each day. So, all this may lead you to wonder about the full extent of the possibilities that this technology presents. The answer is truly limitless. We encourage you to try our free service and let us know how you?ve been able to use it to your meet your own needs., blogmarks.net

Google Launches New Conversion Tracking Tool | AccuraCast Search Daily News (1 Citations)

AdWords conversion tracking has been updated for the first time in years. The new system allows advertisers to classify conversion actions and track them separately. Creating an ActionConversion actions can be classified as: * Purchase/Sale * Signup * Lead * View of a key page * Other, blogmarks.net

Tips to avoid in search engine optimization (1 Citations)

Webmasters know that search engine optimization brings maximum traffic to a website. However if implemented wrongly, search engine optimization can do more harm than good to your website. This is because the wrong techniques implemented in SEO can lead to your website getting supplemented, blacklisted and even banned by major search engines., blogmarks.net

Code Simplicity � When Is Backwards-Compatibility Not Worth It? (1 Citations)

But sometimes, maintaining backwards compatibility for any area of your application can lead to a point of diminishing returns. This applies to everything about a program, not just its API., blogmarks.net

My Aspartame Experiment.com (1 Citations)

I did my aspartame experiment because my family was addicted to diet soda.� After researching the effects of aspartame, I strongly believed the artificial sweetener might one day lead to their illness and even early death.� another Diet coke? (via batiste), blogmarks.net

US tops world Connectivity Scorecard despite broadband ills (1 Citations)

When it comes to using information technology well, people power is as important as wires, chips, and radio signals. That's one of the assumptions driving the new Connectivity Scorecard benchmark put together by Leonard Waverman of the London Business School. Waverman found that the US takes the worldwide lead on "connectivity" when measured in this way, but subpar broadband infrastructure holds the country back., blogmarks.net

The Crunchies Winners (1 Citations)

Best Overall: Facebook Facebook revolutionized the idea of what social networking could be. Best technology innovation / achievement: Earthmine Earthmine picks up where Google Earth leaves off, bringing deep semantic data to 3D panoramas of the real world. Earthmine?s system can keep track of the objects found in the real world and attribute information to each of them, such as latitude, longitude, elevation, and other attributes. Best Clean Tech Startup: Tesla Motors Tesla?s green sports car has captured the imagination of a public who had come to expect electric cars to be dull are boring. Due to be released this year, the company has pre-orders from some of the biggest names in Entertainment and Technology. Best video startup: Hulu Hulu put television online. Their broadcasting system was modeled on the success of social video sites and drawn the praise of its previous critics. Best user-generated content site: Digg Digg?s simple voting system defined the emerging social media revolution. Getting ?dugg? quickly became a badge of honor and established a coveted place in the geek lexicon. Best mobile start-up: Twitter Twitter, the new addictive microblogging platform. It wasn?t until after the South by Southwest conference that people realized the value of the incredibly simple microblogging platform. Best International startup: Netvibes Based in London, Tariq Karim and Freddy Mini?s Netvibes has made waves in the U.S. as a top personalized web portal. Best consumer startup: Meebo Meebo made instant messaging ubiquitous by bringing it online. They then developed it into a platform where anyone could add chat to their applications. Best enterprise startup: Zoho Zoho?s comprehensive online suite of 14 business applications ranging from document editing to CRM continues to lead the way in the move away from desktop computing to working in the cloud. Best design: SmugMug SmugMug is professional photo site. SmugMug?s attention to detail and design can command as much as $150 per year from their users. Best new gadget/ device: Apple iPhone. See the Apple acceptance speech here. Best business model: Zazzle Looking for a Star Wars hat or memorable mug? Zazzle is an on-demand factory of consumer goods for top brands. It also lets consumers become producers by uploading their own images onto that T-shirt, mug, or mousepad. . Consumers can also receive a commission on products that they sell and design themselves Best bootstrapped startup: Techmeme. Founded and developed solely by Gabe Rivera, Techmeme serves as the front page of the tech blogosphere. The site?s advanced algorithms identify the day?s top stories by making sense of conversations across the web?s best blogs. Best Startup Founder: Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook) Does this really need any explanation? At 23 Mark has built one of the world?s leading online destinations that has recently been valued at $15 billion. A remarkable achievement for anyone, let alone someone at the still relatively young 23. A well deserved award. Best Startup CEO: Toni Schneider (Automattic) Schnieder has lead the company from its roots as a open source alternative to Movable Type into a multi-million dollar enterprise that saves the world from blog spam and offers a free hosted blogging solution that competes with Google?s Blogger. Best new startup: iMedix iMedix combines search and social networking to change the way people find health information online. Users are encouraged to help each other by sharing health experiences and links from around the web. Most likely to succeed: Automattic (WordPress) The open source blogging platform that powers the long tale and turned into a multi-million dollar spam fighting and hosted blogging service. Best use of viral marketing: StumbleUpon StumbleUpon?s service lets users bookmark and discover new sites they love. With only a $1.5 million investment in 2005, StumbleUpon gew to over 4 million Stumblers and was bought by eBay in 2007 for $75 million Best time sink site: Kongregate CEO Jim Greer describes Kongregate as XBox live for casual games. This site hosts some of the webs most addictive casual games. Remember Desktop Tower Defense? Moreover, the games are not only played by users, but also created by them in exchange for a share of advertising revenue and other rewards. Most likely to make the world a better place: DonorsChose DonorsChoose.org is dedicated to connecting classrooms in need with individuals who want to help., blogmarks.net

AlterNet: Obamanomics: Barack Talks Tough on Trade (1 Citations)

On Wednesday, the first full day of a Wisconsin primary campaign that he hopes will solidify his emerging lead over his once "inevitable" rival, the Illinois senator started in Janesville, where he delivered a rebuke to free-trade policies of the Bill Clinton and George Bush eras that sounded a little like a speech Feingold might have delivered., blogmarks.net