Created: 18 September 2007 | Watched by: 9 people | Comments: 0 comments

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  Techcrunch 

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  FIQL is a nice niche social network focused on music playlists. Users upload, categorize and share their playlists with others. People who view the playlists can buy songs through links to iTunes and other ... music services. But for the most part they can’t simply listen to the songs online, other than through somewhat cumbersome links to Napster and Rhapsody, which allow people to listen to songs for free with certain restrictions. Since listening to music on playlists has so many restrictions, the service hasn’t grown much - it has just 15,000 playlists from 50,000 registered users since launching in 2005. But at 9 AM PST I have a feeling they will be getting a whole bunch of new users and a lot more playlists when they launch a new product called FIQL TV. That’s because they figured out a brilliant, if somewhat obvious, end-around to copyright laws that restrict them from playing music outright: music videos hosted on third party video sites like YouTube. It’s widely known that musi   [More...] [Less...]

  First added: 20 September 2007, by: Stewart Love  [Report as spam]

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  Web Writing: Good Links are Crucial to Have Clear Powerful Web Prose 

  http://webdesign.about.com/od/writing/a/aa110104.htm

  Don't Write Click Here for Your Links If you get nothing more out of this article than this, please remember not to use "click here" for your links. "Click here" says nothing. In fact, most people skimming ... a Web page don't even see links that read "click here" because they have no semantic attachments. What does that mean? It means that "click here" doesn't reach out and grab your readers and make them want to click on the link. When I see the words "click here" as a link, often my first thought is "who's gonna make me?" and I move on, not clicking on it. According to the W3C Quality Assurance Team , links should: be brief and meaningful provide information even when read out of context explain what the link offers not deal with the mechanics of the site not be a verb phrase Brief and Meaningful Links One popular way of writing links is to link several sentences or paragraphs as one giant link. But this doesn't really help your readers know what the link is. In fact, sometimes it looks   [More...] [Less...]

  First added: 11 July 2008, by: Nik Petrovic  [Report as spam]

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