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25 No-Nonsense Ways to Power Up Your Productivity by Alex Mathers

“With tons of things to do and seemingly less and less time in the day, being productive is a core requirement to the lives of most freelancing creative professionals.”

Joey Roth created this pretty smart graphic for “Hustle”, the first issue of 48 Hours Magazine of which Chris Guillebeau used, to illustrate a short essay on Hustling.

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via: Michael Surtees

A-A-A-mazing! The (free) clean, minimal and totally gorgeous Wordpress Themes created by Wpshower.

Featured: Imbalance (test-drive demo)

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Featured: Paragams (test-drive demo)

City Realty is an industry leading luxury residential real-estate portal developed for New York and other major metropolitan markets. They are urgently searching for two (2) exceptional Web Application Developers for their Montreal offices. .pdf contains job description and contact information.

iPad Gripe Session by Khoi Vinh

“After a few months of owning it, I keep finding more and more uses for my iPad, many of them not possible on my Mac or my iPhone, and my affection for it keeps ratcheting up accordingly.

At the same time, there are at least a handful of irritating shortcomings on the platform that I’m impatiently waiting for Apple to address. I know it’s been less than a full year since the iPad debuted, and perhaps there’s a significant upgrade due soon, but for now, I find that using the iPad is more frustrating than it needs to be..”

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Additional reading: iPad no more

Lets you move music fast and easy. The platform takes the daily hassle out of receiving, sending and distributing music for artists, record labels and other music professionals. Anyone know or is using SoundCloud? I’m trying to gather information about it. Worthy? Not?

Sample this: J. BIEBZ – U SMILE 800% SLOWER

Would luv to have your opinion in the comments.

How about taking design many steps further by participating in a competition that consisted of creating a flowers carpet in Wentspils (Latvia)? Created by Kate Nikolaeva studio and based on Evgeny Kiselev graphic design sketch, their oeuvre ranked 3rd place on 50 participants.

Such a great example of collaboration =))

Pictures on Behance and Facebook!

A mentor once said: “You are ignorant till you ask.” There you go, I am asking. A) What is this graphic please? I’ve been bumping on such that seems all different somehow..

B) What is it for?

Get fame and fortune from the Twitter API by John Allsopp

We all enjoy having a few adoring fans and the great thing about social media is your latest work might just go viral. A project that looks great and also does something interesting .. that’s worth talking about.

Enter the social media APIs.

An API, is a back door into a service such as Facebook, Twitter, Google or YouTube that allows a programmer to add much of the functionalities those services offer to your own project.

The mashup is one result, for instance here in the UK. We had a very snowy winter, and Ben Marsh created UK Snow which takes users’ snow reports from Twitter and plots them on a Google map using the Twitter API to gather the data, and the Google Maps API to plot it.

Ok that’s pretty nerdy (and even useless to you) but, consider these:

What would you do if you could just grab data and functionality from your favourite Web 2.0 service? What social media functionality could you add to your project to improve your users’ experience?

Don’t let the pre-packaged widgets stifle your imagination.

With a friendly programmer, stable, free and open APIs, you could add social media functionality to your project and, with a little luck thrown in, maybe get yourself some mass adulation..

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About the author: John Allsopp based in Scarborough, UK, is proficient in deeply technical stuff and helps people improve their business online. Nothing trashy, just continuing improvement.

Follow JohnAllsoppIM on Twitter

Oh My God What Happened and What Should I Do? by Leif Abraham and Christian Behrendt aka Innovative Thunder.

“This book is for everyone who wants to move into the digital era of awesomeness. We’re currently experiencing a time of change – a change during which a whole generation is evolving; this generation is growing up with an entirely new media behavior. It can’t imagine a world without new media.”

Got it free for a tweet!

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via: Florent Stroppa

Presenting OpenIDEO. It’s a place where people design better, together for social good. It’s an online platform for creative thinkers: the veteran designer and the new guy who just signed on, the critic and the MBA, the active participant and the curious lurker.

Watch the introduction movie. If you like, get involved.

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via: Derek Kinsman