Microsoft’s ’500′ way:

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• 33 New Places to Get Design Inspiration – FreelanceSwitch – The Freelance Blog
  33 New Places to Get Design Inspiration
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• oEmbed
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• Running mod_rails on Leopard (OSX 10.5)
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• LearnHub: Social View of Learning | DavidCrow.ca
  David Crow gave a comprehensive review on LearnHub.com
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I’ve noticed Zoomii from the time Chris Thiessen did his presentation on Democamp 14. It was so impress and inspiration!

As Chris said, “Zoomii” is the closest the one which gives you the shopping experience like a real bookstore. Which I think is true. Take a minute on watching the video he created, I believe you will agree with me too.

Something else you might interested in:

• Chris has built this totally on his owner using Java and JavaScript.
• Chris has built this from zero. By zero, I mean he even built the web server for this instead of using Tomcat or others. I’ve asked him why, he said it was not that hard to create a web server and he only implemented what he really want, so the performance is pretty good.

Anyway, Zoomii is pre-open now, give it a try and you will like it.

Some updates:

Chris Thiessen – “Post-Launch Blog Posts”

StartupNorth – “Zoomii – Book Browsing” – Jonas Brandon

• Aiya101 » Blog Archive » Convergence
  LearnHub – it seems like once it has some more usability testing and trims the mullet it’ll be a powerhouse of an education site. Its already a great example of how information design is changing on the web.
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• Aaron Cannon’s Web Accessibility Checklist ~ Authentic Boredom
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• LearnHub Relaunches Its Social Learning Network
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John just posted a new article: LearnHub & The Mullet Strategy

I think it is hilarious!

Version 2 of the LearnHub homepage got out the door today, and was covered by TechCrunch: LearnHub Relaunches Its Social Learning Network. With this we’ve crystilized our homepage strategy around everyone’s favorite hairstyle, The Mullet

I first heard the term used in this way in an article about The HuffingtonPost in the New Yorker: Out of Print. The term caught my eye because it was funny, memorable, and accurately describes our project.

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