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• Move Beyond Function Towards Connection by Johnny Holland Magazine
• How Fluff Is Driving Away Your Viewers by UX Booth
• Next Directions For Entertainment by Scott Kirsner
• Online Video Ads Are A Good Bet In A Recession by ClickZ Experts
• Creating Consistently Colorful User Experiences: Part 1, Theory by UX Booth
• Back To The Future Marketing by ClickZ Experts
• YouTube Plays With New Features, And You Can Too by NewTeeVee

Read more about Our Bookmarks: Apr 20 – Apr 26, 2009 »

After much research and testing we have settled on two approaches for delivering video content from Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Each approach uses a different delivery protocol.

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Creative & Technical Development

• The Inside Scoop On Design by Open Forum
• Differentiating Your Design by UX Matters
• The Evolution Of Door Usability by UX Booth
• Reviving The Lost Art Of Direct Response Copywriting by ClickZ Experts
• Konigi’s Wiki Updated by Konigi
• Review: YouTube’s New Premium Shows Design by NewTeeVee
• PSD Browser Templates by Junglejar

Read more about Our Bookmarks: Apr 13 – Apr 19, 2009 »

Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently announced that Reserved Instances for Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) are now available in Europe.

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Creative & Technical Development

• Happy 5th Birthday Subservient Chicken by Barbarian Blog
• Taking The “-ed” Out Of Branded Content by ClickZ Experts
• Apple, Ikea And Their Integrated Architecture by Asis&t
• Benefits, Benefits, Benefits by Usability Counts
• The Best Computer Interfaces: Past, Present & Future by MIT Technology Review
• 100 Great Resources For Design Inspiration by Mashable
• Tabbed Navigation, And What Makes It Useful by UX Booth

Read more about Our Bookmarks: Apr 06 – Apr 12, 2009 »

Creative & Technical Development

• Designing For The User Experience by Interface Matters
• 5 Great Experiences To Nurture by Adaptive Path
• Wireframes As Thinking Device by Semantic Foundry
• Complete Beginner’s Guide To Information Architecture by UX Booth
• 7 Reasons Why Agile & Scrum Works For Web User Experience by Usability Counts

Read more about Our Bookmarks: Mar 30 – Apr 05, 2009 »

For those of you who haven’t come across one of these yet, these posts are just links, there’s no explanatory or summary text. Although I sometimes think adding some would be beneficial I’ve stuck to simply calling out the sources we value.

And it is for this very reason that I often get asked why I write a news round-up post each week. Well the reasons for this are:

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