I took a look at this site ‘GeniusProject’ and the second page I looked at seems to have the words smallest thumbnails! Maybe this is a new concept in image previewing – I’ll call it “Micro Previews”. These are small image previews for people with VERY good eyesight or who sit VERY close to the monitor.
Just a reminder people – Make sure your links work!
Or better yet! These guys below have just grayed out the background and shown the enlargement at the same size! Brilliant! Same sized enlargements!
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About the author:
Julian Stone, CEO – Project Management Software visionary for:
ProActive Software, ProWorkflow, ProWorkflow Blog & Julian101
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Looks like www.Bill4Time.com have stolen the layout and left navigation from www.gotomeeting.com. As far as I know they’re two totally unrelated companies (correct me if I’m wrong) so this is blatant design laziness. I blame Bill4Time for this design piracy “do your own design!”.
We use GoToMeeting and thoroughly recommend them – Show them love!
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About the author:
Julian Stone, CEO – Project Management Software visionary for:
ProActive Software, ProWorkflow, ProWorkflow Blog & Julian101
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I have just seen this awesome video that a mate (and customer) Brendon from Chrometoaster posted on Twitter. It pretty well sums up what most people think of ‘New Media’ people. For the youth of today coming through the IT ranks, I can understand why they would call themselves ‘New Media’ experts, but myself being GenX, having seen ‘real’ New Media talented developers and designers, I can really understand why they get peeved to have their role name hijacked by tech newbies.
On a side note, technically I’m a new media douchebag as I am on Twitter, FaceBook, LinkedIn and a heap more as well as writing for heaps of blogs… ;-)
Difference is though – I’m not doing it commercially.
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About the author:
Julian Stone, CEO – Project Management Software visionary for:
ProActive Software, ProWorkflow, ProWorkflow Blog & Julian101
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I’ve been getting some mixed reports from customers about the current economy and state of business. I thought it’d be interesting to ask my fellow tweeters how it’s affecting them. Here’s just a few of the replies… Click the screenshots to see their Twitter accounts:
Firstly, here’s my original questions:
And here’s a few replies. I’m not drawing any conclusions here, just sharing how some other people are doing. I do however feel that now’s the time to Kick Ass! and really push hard to grow our businesses this year.
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About the author:
Julian Stone, CEO – Project Management Software visionary for:
ProActive Software, ProWorkflow, ProWorkflow Blog & Julian101
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Every now and then a comment you say or hear just hits you… I was tweeting away on Twitter and said the following comment:
“Small” is the new “Big” in the global economy. Big is slow, small is fast!
Now I realize that this is a hugely gross generalization etc, but there was some depth to it. Many of the people I talk to in the software realm (many are CEO’s of small/med co’s) are massively feeling the pinch. Sales are down, traffic, expenses up etc. But there’s one thing that stands out. Few of them seem to realize that they have a competitive advantage in being small.
They are able to rapidly change product development, marketing approaches, simplify and automate admin and processes etc.
They’re not so big that reviewing expenses is a a chore, ie: Now’s a good time to review hosting providers, communications providers as they’re not ‘pinned down’ by the administrative and bureaucratic weight of 100,000+ customers.
This is a fantastic time to tweak product or brand focus, trim expenses or change strategic direction. The big players in the market can’t make such changes easily due to the huge bureaucracy, process and resource headaches that follow.
The small can move faster and position themselves better in the market, and the market is definitely changing. Those who don’t adapt will be affected. Small and fast is good!
Anyway, then I got this reply from a fellow tweeter:
“Know the feeling – this is ass kicking time!”
And that got me thinking about recent conversations I’d had with other software CEO’s and another thing became apparent. Almost all of the ones I’d talked to were on the defensive rather than the offensive with their businesses. The world economy is hammering them and they’re standing in the corner protecting what they have.
Where’s the fight? This is a time to take the offensive. Don’t just ’stop doing stuff’, rather have a good think and do ‘more stuff’ and ‘different stuff’! This is your business! your passion! your life! You may have staff depending on you or a user base that depend on you. These people need you to not just pay their wage or keep the service going, but you have to do more! You need to push forward, build the business, get it financially healthy! Work late! Make smart decisions! Try new things!
If you don’t fight for your business in this economy, nobody else will, and there is only so long you can keep up a brave front before the stamina runs dry!
So, in a business sense, this is not ‘Defensive’ time, but rather it’s an ‘Offensive, Ass Kicking!’ time. Have fun and grow in the face of adversity!
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About the author:
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ProActive Software, ProWorkflow, ProWorkflow Blog & Julian101
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