No theme just a bunch of cool links:
- The myth of the page fold: evidence from user testing | cxpartners – As web professionals, we all know that the concept of the page fold being an impenetrable barrier for users is a myth. Over the last 6 years we’ve watched over 800 user testing sessions between us and on only 3 occasions have we seen the page fold as a barrier to users getting to the content they want. (via @RandFish on Twitter)
- Future of Web Apps – At the Future of Web Apps conference Kevin Rose (Digg, Pownce, Wefollow) gave a cool presentation on the top 10 down and dirty ways you can grow your web app. He took the questions he’s most often asked and turned it into a very informative talk.
- List of Open Innovation & Crowdsourcing Examples – Best practices – Open innovation and crowdsourcing – Examples of crowdsourcing and online collaboration.
- How Do Innovators Think? – HBR Editors’ Blog – Harvard Business Review – What makes visionary entrepreneurs such as Apple’s Steve Jobs, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Ebay’s Pierre Omidyar and Meg Whitman, and P&G’s A.G. Lafley tick? In a question-and-answer session with HBR contributing editor Bronwyn Fryer, Professors Jeff Dyer of Brigham Young University and Hal Gregersen of Insead explain how the “Innovators’ DNA” works.
- MarketingSherpa: MarketingSherpa’s Viral Marketing Hall of Fame 2009: Top 7 Campaigns – See how seven marketers planned and executed campaigns that built their own buzz and pushed KPIs higher and higher. Includes screenshots, campaign summaries, and Sherpa analysis on seven campaigns from companies such as Disney, Microsoft and Atlassian.
- 21 Untapped Traffic Sources – Nice set of ideas for driving web traffic
- Mentoring in Open Source Communities: What Works? What Doesn’t? | ITworld – Ubuntu’s Bacon sums up the benefits when he urges open source projects to make use of mentoring. “It is a powerful method of sharing skills and ideas, but start simple. Define some relationships and check in to see how things are progressing. Mentoring is not about hooking two people together and then forgetting about it. Check in with them to see how they are doing, how they are progressing and what help they may need.”
- Netflix Awards $1 Million Prize and Starts a New Contest – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com – Neflix community challenge improves their suggestion system and nets the winning team $1 million.
- Top CMOs on Twitter
- Olivier Blanchard Basics Of Social Media ROI – Thanks to Gia for this link
- Open Source: The Way, Not The Goal – Open Source Blog – InformationWeek – I love it, open source is not a business model it’s a software development methodology. It’s a means to an end.
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