The Next Big Thing

Even in a hyper-connected world, it’s still possible to see The Next Big Thing coming before the ‘masses’ do. Here’s proof.

Watch all 6 Videos at Trendwatching!

The protocol in a nutshell is as follows:

• An feed URL (a “topic”) declares its Hub server(s) in its Atom or RSS XML file, via <link rel=”hub” …>. The hub(s) can be run by the publisher of the feed, or can be a community hub that anybody can use. (Atom and RssFeeds are supported)

• A subscriber (a server that’s interested in a topic), initially fetches the Atom URL as normal. If the Atom file declares its hubs, the subscriber can then avoid lame, repeated polling of the URL and can instead register with the feed’s hub(s) and subscribe to updates.

• The subscriber subscribes to the Topic URL from the Topic URL’s declared Hub(s).

• When the Publisher next updates the Topic URL, the publisher software pings the Hub(s) saying that there’s an update.

• The hub efficiently fetches the published feed and multicasts the new/changed content out to all registered subscribers.

The protocol is decentralized and free. No company is at the center of this controlling it. Anybody can run a hub, or anybody can ping (publish) or subscribe using open hubs.

To bootstrap this, we’ve provided an open source reference implementation of the hub (the hard part of the protocol) that runs on Google App Engine, and is open for anybody to use.

Plugins

• Wordpress

The list of 72 Top Questions to Ask New Web Design Clients

1. How does your company handle email?
2. Do you need any password protected areas?
3. Do you have the Pantone numbers for your current company colors?
4. Did you take a look at our portfolio?
5. What is your time frame?
6. Is this a brochure site, or a blog?
7. Who is your audience?
8. Do you have any specifications?
9. What are the website addresses of your competitors?
10. How many other companies have you talked to?
11. Do you need a business card and letterhead?
12. What is your main message?
13. Did you or someone else register the domain?
14. How familiar are you with search engine optimization and best practices?
15. What are several websites you like?
16. Do you currently have a website?
17. Do you or anyone on your staff have Photoshop or other image editing software?
18. Do you need search engine help?
19. Does the site launch need to coincide with a product launch or any other important milestone?
20. Do you need a content management system?
21. How long have you had a website?
22. Do you have photos you need to use?
23. Will several people be editing the site?
24. How many pages do you need?
25. Do you have a catalog or brochure?
26. How do people find your current website?
27. Do you have a newsletter?
28. Are you in touch with the orginal designer?
29. Do you have access to the web server?
30. What are several websites that you like the look of?
31. Do you have control over the domain?
32. Do you need any other promotional material?
33. How familiar are you with usability studies?
34. How important is search engine ranking to you?
35. Is there any specific functionality you need?
36. Will you be providing creative direction?
37. Do you have your content done?
38. Will your IT person be involved?
39. Do you have a logo? What format is it in?
40. How familiar are you with graphic design best practices for web designs?
41. What is your current hosting company?
42. Have you been through the complete web design and development process before?
43. Who are your competitors?
44. How often do you need to update the site?
45. Describe the style of website you are looking for?
46. Is the original developer still available?
47. What is your budget?
48. What is compelling about working with us?
49. Do you need an image gallery?
50. Are you are anyone on your staff familiar with HTML and CSS?
51. Is your logo in Illustrator format?
52. Do you need this to integrate with your existing identity pieces?
53. How are you going to maintain the site?
54. What software do you have?
55. How did you find us?
56. Did you read any of our blog?
57. What bugs you the most about websites?
58. Do you need any other graphic design help?
59. Do you need social media tools built in, like Digg, Facebook, Twitter, Stumble Upon, etc.
60. How familiar are you with web standards and web design best practices?
61. Do you need the website to tie into any particular 3rd party applications?
62. Do you need a contact form?
63. Do you have a domain?
64. Do you have any proposals from other design firms?
65. How important is customization to you?
66. Will you want or need help in making changes? If so, would you need help routinely?
67. What do you need your website to do?
68. Do you need ecommerce?
69. Have you considered redesigning your logo?
70. Do you have hosting?
71. Have you considered taking a fresh look at your corporate identity? This a good time to consider refresh or an entirely new identity.
72. When is the last time you updated the site?

This is mine As you see with many inspiration.

Check them out here at Ashad’s website.

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE FOLLOWING WINNERS

1. LukaszPL
2. Thomas Loris
3. Adam
4. (If one of the first 3 doesnt get in contact): René

Please do not forget: If you are declared a winner, you will have one week to redeem your license. Contact us.

Subscribe

If you want to stay updated about the new giveaways, why do you not subscribe to KnowTebook or follow us on twitter?

Whether you need to round time, use multiple currencies or create invoices with your own layout, Fanurio has the right tools to help you get paid.

WIN NOW 1 OF 3 LICENSES BY JUST COMMENTING AND SAYING IT: MOOOHAAAA!

Thanks for joining and congrats to all winners!

By the way: Stay up to date about our freebies and follow us on twitter.

The Mooohaa List of Features

Fanurio has many features that can help you be more productive. Here’s a list with all relevant features.

Time tracking

• Start/pause/stop the timer from the tray icon
• Badges the dock icon to display the elapsed time
• Control the timer from the iTunes-like mini view
• Detects idle time to record all your working time
• Reminders to start and stop the timer in case you forget to do it
• Import time from other users or computers

Billing

• Organize projects using services and expenses
• Record both billable and non-billable services
• Bill services in hours or units
• Round time for billable services
• Bill in multiple currencies
• Discount the price or the quantity of a service
• Enter discounts as a percentage or as a fixed value
• Resell goods or subcontracted services
• Use both taxable and non-taxable services
• Manage current projects easier by marking older ones as finished

Invoices

• Create partial invoices anytime during the project
• Create invoices for single or multiple projects
• Use taxes to create accurate and complete invoices
• Use automatic invoice numbering to save time
• Apply discounts to invoices
• Apply partial payments to invoices
• Export invoices to HTML or PDF to print them or to send them by e-mail
• Print or email invoices directly from the application
• Customize invoice templates using your own layouts

Reports

• Analyze projects to see how much money you’ve made or how much time you’ve worked
• Analyze projects by date, week, month and year
• See which invoices are paid, unpaid or overdue and their balance
• Sort unpaid invoices by age
• See how much money you’ve collected from a certain client or all clients
• Export time, invoices and payments to CSV or Excel
• Export project reports to HTML or PDF

Integration

• Import contacts from Address Book and CSV files
• Import time from other applications
• Backups data automatically
• Runs on Mac OS X, Windows and Linux
• Cross-platform version that can be used from a USB stick

Winning Guide

• ALL YOU HAVE TO DO TO WIN IS COMMENTING AND SAY IT: MOOOOOHAAA!
• If you are declared a winner, you will have one week to redeem your license.
• The set of winners will be declared around October 18, 2009

Subscribe

If you want to stay updated about the results, why do you not subscribe to KnowTebook or follow us on twitter?

Any questions? Let us know!

With a live transmission as you type, participants on a wave can have faster conversations, see edits and interact with extensions in real-time. It is a new combination of email and chatting.

Definition: Twittertising

I’ll try to sum it up and hope to have your help in this to make it ready for the guiness book ;- ):

Twittertising (twitter + advertising) is a Twitter based advertising model using the short and quick messaging service for businesses to promote products or services…. your text here!

Lobalized already wrote about a german start-up company Be-A-Magpie (BAM) which is the first advertising agency to surface which is solely using the power of Twitter to generate awareness for brands and companies.

What we like about BAM is that it blends the advertising message into the normal message stream of the twitterer and therefore triggers a conversation among the followers, which in turn generates impressions among the followers followers and so on. The chain reaction can have a massive effect on the actual amount of people you reach. This is definitely something to create not only awareness but also a high click through rate (if your message contains a link), which, according to BAM, is currently at 9% on average and therefore much better than any other ad system on the internet.

Since Twitter will introduce his own busines model this year finally, they may involve creating premium or corporate accounts so that the big Twitterbubble could find his end. Lets start here to have a word in this.

There are numerous ways for brands to leverage Facebook but the overall branded experience is becoming increasingly integrated into a single offering as the new Pages product highlights. So what are the primary benefits and changes for the new branded pages?