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10 Tools for Getting Web Design Feedback

This series is supported by Ben & Jerry’s Joe , Ben & Jerry’s new line-up of Fair Trade and frozen iced coffee drinks. Learn more about it here . For designers, one of the most critical parts of a project is getting critiques and advice on how to improve designs. After all, they create designs that will be used by many other people.
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Top 5 Mobile Commerce Trends for 2010

The mobile trends series is supported by Samsung. Read more about the Samsung Galaxy here . Considering that most people would rather lose their wallet than misplace their cell phone, it’s fitting that the mobile world is quickly becoming a new hub for business. For many of us, our cell phone never leaves our side. It holds a place at the dinner table, is easily accessible in your bag’s front pocket, and often, somehow it even manages to end up sharing your pillow at night.
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10 Fascinating Facebook Facts

Facebook’s astronomic rise, staggeringly large user-base, and world’s youngest self-made billionaire CEO make it one of the most fascinating companies around today. While everyone knows the basics about the service’s Harvard dorm room origins, we’ve delved a little deeper to find out more interesting snippets of info. Here are 10 facts you might not know about Facebook, so read on and let us know your favorites in the comments box below. 1
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Android Versus Android: Which Phones Are Winning on the Web? [STATS]

Smartphones are one of the most talked-about and hotly debated consumer electronics on the block these days, and manufacturers are pumping out more of these devices each month. So, how are these devices measuring up in the arena of public opinion? A few 140-character user reviews can say a lot about a phone’s early success or failure, and we’ve got details on what social media junkies are saying about a few Android devices, including the Droid X , the HTC Evo , and the HTC Incredible . In the past year or so, we’ve gone from “smartphones” to “superphones” — slick, sexy pieces of hardware with huge screens, HD capabilities, powerful cameras, zippy processors, impressive browsing capabilities and more apps than you can shake a stick at. Technology has accelerated quickly over these months, and Android devices are competing nicely with Apple’s iPhones.
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11 Ways to Speed Up WordPress

Cyrus Patten is the editor of Pingable.org , a blog about everything WordPress. He specializes in the role of technology in community organizing. WordPress is inherently fast, and that’s why so many professional bloggers call it their choice platform.
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HOW TO: Score a Design Job

Without designers there probably wouldn’t be an Internet, or at least there wouldn’t be an Internet that looked this good. Many skilled hands go into creating the websites that we know and love, but designers are usually the ones held responsible for how it looks. They put together everything from flashy logos to image banners to drop downs and font choice. Twitter ’s Fail Whale or Facebook ’s distinctive blue and white color scheme both came from designers, but someone needed to find and hire those designers in the first place. Getting a job is usually a daunting experience regardless of the field
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My TSA Lists Security Wait Times and Other Frequently Asked TSA Questions [Travel]

My TSA is a mobile web site and iPhone application that provides access to crowdsourced security checkpoint wait times and answers frequently asked TSA questions, like "Can I bring x?" It also includes a guide to acceptable IDs, liquids, and more. More
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5 Ways Social Media Helps Promote Good Health

Alexander B. Howard ( @digiphile ) is the Government 2.0 Washington Correspondent for O’Reilly Media, where he reports on technology, open government and online civics. He will share open source technology news at the OSCON convention in Portland, Oregon, on July 19-23.
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The World Cup Was Huge on Twitter [CHART]

For continuous World Cup coverage, check out Mashable’s 2010 World Cup Hub . Only now that the World Cup has ended can we truly look back and appreciate how massive the event was. The World Cup created a lot of jaw-dropping numbers and even set a few records on the Internet this go around, from the astounding 3,282 tweets per second sent following Japan’s 3-1 victory over Denmark a few weeks ago, to the absolutely ridiculous 25 million hours of video streamed by Univision and ESPN over the web. Perhaps the most astonishing feat was that this year’s World Cup set not one, but three separate net usage records according to Akamai . The most mind-blowing of these was the record 20.7 million visitors per minute recorded on Akamai-served news sites (including many of the biggest) on June 24, when Slovakia knocked out Italy at the same time that the longest match in tennis history was going on.
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