Logo Design: Trains

The Logo Design series is up and running! We’re thinking ahead and we want to find new ways to sort these listings. Last week we had a post on logos with ice creams and popsicles… today it’s all about logos with trains!

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Top 12 Logo Design Galleries for Your Inspiration!

Top 12 Logo Design Galleries for Your Inspiration!

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Lip-Dubbing Senior Citizens Make Retirement Home Fun [VIDEO]

Each day, Mashable highlights one noteworthy YouTube video. Check out all our viral video picks.

Lip-dubbing isn’t just for high school students anymore. A video recently hit the web featuring the residents of the Clark Retirement Community in Michigan doing a swank cover of “Feeling Good.”

The video, which… read more

5 Trends Shaping the Mobile Gaming Industry

The Consumer Trends Series is supported by GameSpot, giving brands the next level of engagement with gamers through exclusive news, clips, trailers and more. To connect your brands with true enthusiasm, visit CBSInteractive.com/ideal.

Mobile gaming has really taken off in the past few years, and the… read more

HOW TO: Turn Fans Into Brand Ambassadors

The Behind the Social Media Campaign Series is supported by Oneupweb, an award-winning agency specializing in search marketing, social media and design for mid-to-enterprise level brands. Download Oneupweb’s free whitepaper, “Measuring Social Media’s Contribution to the Bottom Line: 5 Tactics.”

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50 Must Have Cheat Sheets For Web Designers & Developers

Today we are featuring a collection of more than 50 extremely useful cheat sheets that every designer and developer must have. A cheat sheet is a guide of a peculiar programming language, software or framework that can be printed for easy access.

Cheat sheets are basically intended for those designers and… read more

25 examples of symmetry in web design

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FontDeals.com Logo Contest – Winner Gets the next (2) Font Bundles Free

Many of you may know, I recently launched a new website called FontDeals.com, a place to get ginormous discounts on top-quality fonts. Well, I’ve got a lot going on and I’m not very happy with the Font Deals Logo. Therefore, I’m launching a logo design contest, and the winner will… read more

Internet-Famous Cat Ruined by the Limelight in Taking Back Sunday Video

Each day, Mashable highlights one noteworthy YouTube video. Check out all our viral video picks.

Every wonder what happens when the all-consuming high that results from gaining sudden Internet celebrity comes crashing down? Let us refer you to Taking Back Sunday’s new music video, “Faith (When I Let… read more

TechCrunch rinnova il look ma lascia spiacevolmente sorpresi

Ho appena aperto TechCrunch. Sono rimasto per qualche secondo spaesato quando l’home page si è materializzata davanti ai miei occhi. Ho controllato l’indirizzo nella barra del browser convinto di aver sbagliato qualcosa. Eppure ero sicuro che fosse quello giusto. Per sicurezza l’ho digitato di nuovo e niente da fare. La… read more

The Teenage Winners of Google’s Global Science Fair [PICS]

Google’s first-ever Global Science Fair showed off advances in chemotherapy and carcinogen research, turbine design and more — all from teenage researchers.

At a packed event this week in Mountain View, California, 15 teens presented their research to a panel of judges that included “father of the Internet”… read more

Behind The Scenes Of Nike Better World

Perhaps one of the most talked about websites in the last 12 months has been Nike Better World. It’s been featured in countless Web design galleries, and it still stands as an example of what a great idea and some clever design and development techniques can produce.

In this article, we’ll… read more

30 Creative QR code business cards

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50 Fresh And Best Logo Designs From June 2011 For Inspiration

50 Fresh And Best Logo Designs From June 2011 For Inspiration

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Harry Potter Gets the “Friday” Treatment in Mock Trailer [VIDEO]

Each day, Mashable highlights one noteworthy YouTube video. Check out all our viral video picks.

The final installment of Harry Potter premieres on Friday, and, appropriately, someone has created a Potter-themed cover of Rebecca Black’s “Friday” to mark the occasion.

The production quality of this vid — created by… read more

The R’s Show Their Dark Side in “Mr. Hide” [VIDEO]

Each Monday, Mashable highlights an exclusive new video or song. Check out all our Music Monday picks.

Italian rock band The R’s has released its first single from its U.S. debut record, De Flora Et Fauna. The song, “Mr. Hide,” is a likable bombastic ode to baring all… read more

New Apple iPhone 4 Ads Promote FaceTime, AirPlay [VIDEOS]

Apple’s iPhone 5 may hit stores as soon as August, but Apple hasn’t let up on its support for the current model. Apple this week has released two ads promoting FaceTime and AirPlay.

The FaceTime ad (above) shows off the video chat feature, which lets you set up conversations between two… read more

10 Best Practices for Bands on Facebook

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Hey, bands, Facebook isn’t just for… read more

5 Ways To Develop a Company Culture for Remote Teams

The Digital Careers Series is supported by Elance, the world’s leading site for online work. Check out Startup Cloud for tips on how to build a remote team.

Developing a company culture can be a challenge for any business, but especially for ones that employ remote workers. However,… read more

What’s new for web designers – July 2011

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40 Inspirational and Creative Logo Designs

40 Inspirational and Creative Logo Designs

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Stay Awake or You Might Miss Delicious Coffee Logos

Stay Awake or You Might Miss Delicious Coffee Logos

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Our favorite tweets of the week Jul 4-Jul 10, 2011

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Best of the Week #179

It’s time for our best news of this week. We have a lot of graphic and web design, a bit of architecture, ads, tech news, awesome reads and other crazy stuff! So take a look at the links we’ve selected for your inspiration and to keep you updated about what’s… read more

Comics of the week #85

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Inside Google’s User Experience Lab: An Interview With Google’s Marcin Wichary

Marcin Wichary’s fascination with the relationship between humans and machines began at an early age. As a boy in Poland, he was mesmerized by the interaction between arcade patrons and the video games they played. Years later, Marcin would help shape the way that millions of computer users interact with… read more

Business Card Design and Prepress Preparation in CorelDRAW – a Technical Guide

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CorelDRAW is considered top, both for vector editing and prepress solutions. Its unique capabilities exceed the typical vector designing software, places it deep in the heart of the user who tried it and understands it. In this article I will not discuss the ease you can use VBA with,… read more

Effective Home Page Design: Essential Tips and Examples

Home page, say it official entry point of the website, is one the most important pages in every website, if don’t be most important and its efficiency directly affects website in all. Some designers overlook its significant role in the website’s success or don’t take advantage of its potentiality to… read more

Chilling Underwater series by Erin Mulvehill

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Choosing Media Temples Dedicated-Virtual (dv) Service as Our New Host

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Media Temple is one of the more popular premium web hosting services out there. Media Temple is also pretty divisive – some swear by its quality, others claim it’s nothing but overpriced style-over-performance. Regardless, you can’t deny that it’s used by some big websites and bloggers… read more

Impressive Logo Design Inspiration In June – 50 Logos

Impressive Logo Design Inspiration In June – 50 Logos

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Vintage Branding Inspiration

Vintage Branding Inspiration

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20 Creatively Designed Sketch Logo Designs

20 Creatively Designed Sketch Logo Designs

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Girl Covers “You’re Gonna Miss Me” With Killer Voice & Plastic Cup [VIDEO]

Each day, Mashable highlights one noteworthy YouTube video. Check out all our viral video picks.

You know how you used to bang on pots and pans as a child, pretending that you were the littlest Ringo Starr? Yeah, this YouTube cover of “You’re Gonna Miss Me” by Lulu… read more

Daily Inspiration #868

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

10 Top Tech Entrepreneurs Share Their Favorite Food Trucks

The Social-Savvy Food Truck Series is supported by the Ben and Jerry’s Scoop Truck. For more information on the scoop truck and where it stops, click here.

When you’re an entrepreneur, you don’t have much time to eat. Therefore, your life is made a lot easier and more… read more

Why Facebook Relies on Third-Party Agencies to Scale Its Ad Platform

The Modern Media Agency Series is supported by IDG. Mobile devices and video are two of the hottest digital topics. There’s been hype for a few years but now mobile and video are hitting their stride with social networking aiding mobile growth. Click here to learn… read more

How Google Is Leading the Way to a Voice-Activated Future

The Tech Innovators Series is supported by Lenovo. Lenovo does not just manufacture technology. They make Do machines — super-powered creation engines designed to help the people who do, do more, do better, do in brand new ways.

Speech and voice recognition technology have been around for half… read more

Logo Design: Ice Cream and Popsicles

The Logo Design series is up and running! We’re thinking ahead and we want to find new ways to sort these listings. Last week we had a post on logos with elephants… today it’s all about logos with ice cream and popsicles!

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7 Logo Design Trends for UK Logo Designers – Predictions for 2011!!

7 Logo Design Trends for UK Logo Designers – Predictions for 2011!!

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How to Benefit from Logo Design Contests in the Right Way!!

How to Benefit from Logo Design Contests in the Right Way!!

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Check out our new logo design project!

Check out our new logo design project!

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Kurt Vile’s “Baby’s Arms” Shot Entirely on Windows Phone [VIDEO]

Each day, Mashable highlights one noteworthy YouTube video. Check out all our viral video picks.

Phone-made videos and movies are becoming increasingly popular. And on Wednesday, musician Kurt Vile premiered a dreamy vid for “Baby’s Arms” that’s definitely worth checking out.

The video — for a tune from Vile‘s… read more

How the Private Space Race Has Taken Off

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“We choose to go to the moon…. read more

Facebook Reveals Video Chat Powered by Skype

Facebook video chat is real: the social network has unveiled its rumored video chat product, powered by Skype.

“A few months ago, we started working with Skype to bring video calling to Facebook,” Facebook announced on its blog. “We built it right into chat, so all your conversations… read more

20 Fantastic pseudo-Flash websites

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30 Restaurant Logos That Will Leave You Hungry for More

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The right restaurant logo can get your mouth watering before you even see the menu. These restaurant-related logos certainly fall into that category. Enjoy :)

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Superb LogoArena.com – Artistic logo designs

Superb LogoArena.com – Artistic logo designs

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Is Sony Releasing the PlayStation 4 in 2012? [RUMOR]

It looks like the next-generation console wars are heating up. Sony is now rumored to be preparing the PlayStation 4 for a 2012 launch, according to a new report.

Perhaps more interesting, though, is that the PlayStation 4 may boast body movement controls as one of its core… read more

How To Create a Colorful Logo Style Ribbon Graphic

How To Create a Colorful Logo Style Ribbon Graphic

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Announcing Social Good Summit 2011 [VIDEO & REGISTRATION]

Mashable, 92Y and the UN Foundation are thrilled to announce that the second annual Social Good Summit will take place September 19-22 at the 92Y in New York City. Held during UN Week, the Social Good Summit is where big ideas meet new media to create… read more

Firemen Rescue Stuck Kitten With a Leaf Blower [VIDEO]

Each day, Mashable highlights one noteworthy YouTube video. Check out all our viral video picks.

We haven’t had a good cat video on “YouTube Video of the Day” for a while now, so we thought we’d remedy that — with a twist. An adorable kitten got stuck in… read more

Daily Inspiration #866

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

Free WordPress Themes: 2011 Edition

It’s interesting to look back at our previous WordPress themes round-ups. It’s almost like looking at a visual timeline not only of WordPress’ advances in theme design, but of the rapid development in functionality of the CMS itself. The themes from year to year clearly differ in style as Web… read more

Keynote as a collaborative wireframing tool

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Five Quietly-Good Apps from the Mac App Store

With thousands of apps on the Mac App Store, there’s bound to be some hidden treasures. Unfortunately, there are also plenty of apps that are just containers for sales pitches or overly designed slideshows of real estate. There are a lot of apps that, quite simply, don’t belong on the… read more

Daily Inspiration #865

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

Creating a Home Photography Studio on a Budget

A Guest post by Kimberly Gauthier from Through the Lens of Kimberly Gauthier

I live in the Pacific Northwest and every now and then we have days when the weather isn’t ideal. Overcast days are fantastic for photography, but the rainy days drive me inside. I have a sleeve for my… read more

Independence Day Google Doodle Wishes You a Happy Fourth

Google is celebrating the fourth of July — Independence Day in the U.S. — with a bright red, white and blue Google doodle on its homepage Monday.

This particular doodle lacks the interactive panache of recent Google doodles, but it is all things Americana — baseball, the… read more

Professional Practices They Don’t Teach You In Art School – What Is Your “Brand?”

When I speak to senior students at art schools, there is one major thing I try to impress upon them: to freelance is to run a small business and a freelance design business has all the needs and headaches of running a bakery, pizza parlor or crack house – although… read more

The Making of an “ELITE” Identity

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Deep down inside every designer loves a good ol’ fashion logo. In-fact, as a kid you probably redrew the Nike or Lacoste logo over and over, just for fun. Or was that just me? So when a start-up business owner of an athletic training company approached me to… read more

CopyPaste Pro: Time Machine for Your Clipboard

CopyPaste Pro, from the developer Plum Amazing, describes itself as “Time Machine for your clipboard” and is designed to give a much-needed refresh to this simple, yet vital feature. There are plenty of features built in which not only bring some added functionality to moving text around but also some… read more

Easy 3D Globe in Photoshop

A few weeks ago a friend of mine wanted to know how to create a sort of 3D globe effect using Photoshop. I didn’t know how to do that but I got really intrigued with that, so I decided to give it a try. I knew that the Spherize would… read more

Is it getting much tougher to start your own logo design company?

Establishing a brand new company can be extremely intimidating, especially a new logo design company. The web based competitiveness for logo design is extremely aggressive in todays environment. You will discover several serious players that seem to be making it extremely tough for new online design businesses to secure a… read more

30 Fresh and Very Well Thought Logo Designs

30 Fresh and Very Well Thought Logo Designs

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18 Latest Logo Designer Resumes – Inspiring and Creative CVs!

18 Latest Logo Designer Resumes – Inspiring and Creative CVs!

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Our favorite tweets of the week Jun 27-Jul 3, 2011

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Comics of the week #84

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Social Media Day 2011 Around the World [PHOTOS & VIDEOS]

Thursday’s second annual Social Media Day celebration was a huge success throughout the world. Thousands of people came together offline in their local communities to recognize the technological advancements that enable everyone to connect with real-time information, communicate from miles apart and have their voices be heard.

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Google+: The Pros & Cons

The web is still talking about Google+, the search giant’s new social initiative and answer to Facebook. Now that it has been out in the wild for a few days, people have had some time to assess Google’s social network, especially where it hits a home run… read more

Facebook To Unveil Skype-Powered Video Chat Next Week [CONFIRMED]

Facebook’s “awesome” announcement next week has been spoiled. The social network will reportedly be unveiling a Skype-powered video chat platform.

Facebook’s Seattle team was behind the new feature, according to TechCrunch. Skype and Facebook already have a serious partnership that integrated Facebook social data directly into the Skype… read more

Google in Preliminary Talks To Buy Hulu [REPORT]

Google already owns the most-viewed online video site, YouTube. Now it might be picking up the video site with the most ad views as well.

The company is in preliminary talks to buy television streaming site Hulu, the L.A. Times reports.

According to the newspaper’s sources, Hulu has been… read more

25 Most-Shared Mashable Stories in June

Discussions about Google+ dominated the online discourse on social sites as June came to a close, but a flurry of other hot topics got their fair share of attention throughout the month, including the Les Paul Google doodle, the Pope’s first tweet and a social media campaign… read more

20 Biggest Mistakes Designers Make

In web design, the learning never stops. Some of us designers see this as an opportunity, others as a hindrance. We have to keep up with the pace of ever-changing technology, techniques and trends in order to be competitive. In this fast-paced environment, we are bound to make mistakes—and mistakes… read more

Minuscule photo collection by Maite Guerrero

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Seeing The Negative In Everything: Charles Goslin

While I loved my art school teachers, they were all very different. There were some who taught technique. They were masters at drawing, design and type and their tips and tricks were valuable to a successful career, but some of my favorite teachers were the ones who taught creative thinking.

I… read more

Creative Examples of Negative Space in Logo Design

Creative Examples of Negative Space in Logo Design

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37 Sophisticated and Stylish UV Coated Business Cards

A business card is an ideal way to reference your contact information and leave a great, lasting impression with customers, partners, and prospects. If you prefer to highlight your logo, name, text or anything in the card, use UV coated business cards. Its vibrant and exceptional qualities would… read more

Designing For Android

For designers, Android is the elephant in the room when it comes to app design. As much as designers would like to think it’s an iOS world in which all anyones cares about are iPhones, iPads and the App Store, nobody can ignore that Android currently has the majority of… read more

Ribbons and tags in web design

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50 Illustrated Desktop, iPad and iPhone Wallpapers

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Your desktop wallpaper probably says a lot about who you are. It could be your ideal holiday destination, a beautiful picture that you’ve taken or your beloved family members. Your desktop wallpaper can represent that whimsical side of yourself that just wants to break free… read more

Logo Design: Elephants

The Logo Design series is up and running! We’re thinking ahead and we want to find new ways to sort these listings. Last week we had a post on logos with monkeys… today it’s all about logos with elephants!

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HOW TO: Turn Your Resume Into a Gorgeous, Web-Based Infographic

The Web Development Series is supported by Rackspace, the better way to do hosting. Learn more about Rackspace’s hosting solutions here.

A new app called Vizualize.me will instantly turn your LinkedIn profile into a stunning infographic, all through the power of code — no graphic design skills required.

Pulling… read more

3 Simple Ways Tech Can Grow Greener Cities

The Global Innovation Series is supported by BMW i, a new concept dedicated to providing mobility solutions for the urban environment. It delivers more than purpose-built electric vehicles — it delivers smart mobility services. Visit bmw-i.com or follow @BMWi on Twitter.

In the annals of urban design, Peter… read more

Starting a Niche Blog

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So you want to start a blog. You’ve decided on WordPress, Blogger, LiveJournal, or whatever, which is a good first step. Before you start blogging you need to think about how you’re going to differentiate your blog from the thousands of blogs out… read more

Complete Guide to Facebook Fan Pages

Facebook fan pages are a great way to promote a business, and an important part of any social media marketing plan. Creating a basic page isn’t that complicated, but creating a page that fans will like, share, and engage with is a bit trickier.

Below, we’ll cover how to set up… read more

How to Create a Basic WordPress Theme with Gantry Framework

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Gantry Framework is a WordPress theme framework that, unlike most of its modern counterparts, allows the user to construct a layout and color palette from within the WordPress admin backend itself. It’s powerful and flexible enough that power users can harness Gantry to achieve much greater… read more

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Logo Elements

Logo Elements

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If Logos Were Honest, What Would They Say?

If Logos Were Honest, What Would They Say?

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Daily Inspiration #860

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

Arcade Fire & Spike Jonze’s Short Film Hits the Web [VIDEO]

Each day, Mashable highlights one noteworthy YouTube video. Check out all our viral video picks.

Scenes From the Suburbs — a companion film to Arcade Fire’s Grammy-winning album, The Suburbs — has made its way onto the web in its entirety.

The short film, directed by Spike Jonze and… read more

How To Redesign A Logo

No matter how small a logo might seem, it plays a great part in making a brand; the influence a logo has online is huge. Redesigning a logo is even more complicated than creating it. Even if a good logo is a logo that never gets outdated, sometimes a change… read more

Google+: First Impressions

Google has just unveiled Google+, its ambitious answer to Facebook. It turns all of Google into one giant social network, thanks to a core group of social products and a new navigation bar that integrates sharing into every single Google product.

I spent much of Monday testing Google+’s… read more

30 environmental Friendly logo’s

30 environmental Friendly logo’s

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Google Launches Google+ To Battle Facebook [PICS]

Google has finally unveiled Google+, the company’s top secret social layer that turns all of the search engine into one giant social network.

Google+, which begins rolling out a very limited field test on Tuesday, is the culmination of a year-long project led by Vic Gundotra, Google’s senior… read more

How Starbucks Is Paving the Way for Mainstream Mobile Payments

The Tech Innovators Series is supported by Lenovo. Lenovo does not just manufacture technology. They make Do machines — super-powered creation engines designed to help the people who do, do more, do better, do in brand new ways.

While near field communication and QR code marketing campaigns are… read more

The History of Advertising on Facebook [INFOGRAPHIC]

The Social Ad Series is supported by LoopFuse, which provides forever-free marketing automation software that closes the loop between sales and marketing with smarter lead capture, scoring, and nurturing — plus Salesforce.com integration. See how lead management with LoopFuse increases revenue.

As Facebook has grown from a collegiate… read more

Setup A Ubuntu VPS For Hosting Ruby On Rails Applications

Let’s assume you have built a nice little Ruby on Rails application on your local development machine. Now it’s time for the application to go live. But where should you host this application? You know that you (or your client) do not have much money to spend, and so you… read more

Impressive Nail’s Life series by Vlad Artazov

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