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Hulu's April Fool Joke: 1996 Web Design

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Visitors to Los Angeles-based video streaming service Hulu Friday were greeted with a surprise "redesign" of the web site, as part of a Hulu April Fool's gag.

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FindTheBest Snags Google, DoubleClick Vet As President

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Santa Barbara-based FindTheBest.com , the online comparison site headed by DoubleClick founder Kevin O'Connor , has turned to a Google and DoubleClick vet to serve as President. Yaghoubi was also an executive serving under O'Connor at DoubleClick, where he was Vice President of Global Media. FindTheBest is venture backed by Kleiner Perkins.

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CrownPeak Raises $1.75M in Series C

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Los Angeles-based CrownPeak , a developer of web content management systems (CMS), has raised $1.75M in a Series C funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm today. CrownPeak, which is headed by Jim Howard, develops software used by companies to easily modify and maintain web sites, without requiring web designers.

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The 1/9/90 Rule of UGC & Why It’s OK to Have Lurkers

Both Sides of the Table

I wrote the following answer: “I have always believed that UGC (user generated content) website users fall into three categories that follow the 1/9/90 rule. You live or die on the power users because they build the most compelling content and help promote your website (because it helps them). They are there to ingest content.

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Interview with Lynda Weinman and Bruce Heavin, Lynda.com

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How do you take a business you started as your own personal web site, and turn it into an online powerhouse, completely bootstrapped, from the little town of Ojai, California--not exactly known as a technology town? Bruce and I met at the Art Center, and that was when I first discovered the web.

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5 Common Misconceptions of Web Design: Insights from the Yoga Sutras

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They do not know what they do not know which makes a meaningful conversation with a design agency very challenging. It will cost them too much and will create more work for them once the site has been deployed. The pride and effort they have placed in building up their business should be reflected through their web presence.

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Mark Suster Invests In Treehouse

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Mark Suster , the highly visible venture capitalist blogger at GRP Partners, has invested in UK-based TreeHouse , an online, video-focused site for helping users learn web design and development. Other investors in the firm include Kevin Rose, Reid Hoffman, David Sze, Josh Elman, and Chamath Palihapitiya.