Public marks with search paid Public marks with search paid http://blogmarks.net/marks/search/paid WordPress › Free WordPress Themes http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/commercial/ While our directory is full of fantastic themes, sometimes people want to use something that they know has support behind it, and don't mind paying for that. Contrary to popular belief, GPL doesn't say that everything must be zero-cost, just that when you receive the software or theme that it not restrict your freedoms in how you use it. With that in mind, here are a collection of folks who provide GPL themes with extra paid services available around them. Some of them you may pay for access, some of them are membership sites, some may give you the theme for zero-cost and just charge for support. What they all have in common is people behind them who support open source, WordPress, and its GPL license. 2009-10-27T09:23:03Z mozkart wordpress

WordPress › Free WordPress Themes

by mozkart

While our directory is full of fantastic themes, sometimes people want to use something that they know has support behind it, and don't mind paying for that. Contrary to popular belief, GPL doesn't say that everything must be zero-cost, just that when you receive the software or theme that it not restrict your freedoms in how you use it. With that in mind, here are a collection of folks who provide GPL themes with extra paid services available around them. Some of them you may pay for access, some of them are membership sites, some may give you the theme for zero-cost and just charge for support. What they all have in common is people behind them who support open source, WordPress, and its GPL license.

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]]> Information Architects » Blog Archive » Links in Print: The Story of a Beautiful Failure http://informationarchitects.jp/tages-anzeiger-paper-redesign-pitch-lost/ In January 2009 we were invited to take part in a paid pitch for the print redesign for the Swiss newspaper Tages-Anzeiger. All in all five agencies took part in the pitch. We were the only UX oriented agency. The story of a beautiful failure. 2009-10-01T15:58:10Z sbrothier print, webdesign, news, graphic design

Information Architects » Blog Archive » Links in Print: The Story of a Beautiful Failure

by sbrothier & 1 other(s)

In January 2009 we were invited to take part in a paid pitch for the print redesign for the Swiss newspaper Tages-Anzeiger. All in all five agencies took part in the pitch. We were the only UX oriented agency. The story of a beautiful failure.

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]]> Lemonade http://lemonademovie.com/ More than 70,000 advertising professionals have lost their jobs in this “Great Recession.” Lemonade is about what happens when people who were once paid to be creative in advertising are forced to be creative with their own lives. 2009-08-14T13:17:25Z gregg documentaire, video, films

Lemonade

by gregg

More than 70,000 advertising professionals have lost their jobs in this “Great Recession.” Lemonade is about what happens when people who were once paid to be creative in advertising are forced to be creative with their own lives.

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]]> SSRN-Broken Promises of Privacy: Responding to the Surprising Failure of Anonymization by Paul Ohm http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1450006 <blockquote><p>Computer scientists have recently undermined our faith in the privacy-protecting power of anonymization, the name for techniques for protecting the privacy of individuals in large databases by deleting information like names and social security numbers. These scientists have demonstrated they can often “reidentify” or “deanonymize” individuals hidden in anonymized data with astonishing ease. By understanding this research, we will realize we have made a mistake, labored beneath a fundamental misunderstanding, which has assured us much less privacy than we have assumed. This mistake pervades nearly every information privacy law, regulation, and debate, yet regulators and legal scholars have paid it scant attention. We must respond to the surprising failure of anonymization, and this Article provides the tools to do so.</p></blockquote> 2009-08-14T10:47:40Z karlcow opacité

SSRN-Broken Promises of Privacy: Responding to the Surprising Failure of Anonymization by Paul Ohm

by karlcow

Computer scientists have recently undermined our faith in the privacy-protecting power of anonymization, the name for techniques for protecting the privacy of individuals in large databases by deleting information like names and social security numbers. These scientists have demonstrated they can often “reidentify” or “deanonymize” individuals hidden in anonymized data with astonishing ease. By understanding this research, we will realize we have made a mistake, labored beneath a fundamental misunderstanding, which has assured us much less privacy than we have assumed. This mistake pervades nearly every information privacy law, regulation, and debate, yet regulators and legal scholars have paid it scant attention. We must respond to the surprising failure of anonymization, and this Article provides the tools to do so.

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]]> What Advertising Do Consumers Trust? - eMarketer http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?R=1007206 "The least trusted were also new media channels, such as mobile advertising, display ads, video ads and paid search results. " 2009-08-04T03:18:54Z kuroyagi search ads, mobile, advertising, online ads

What Advertising Do Consumers Trust? - eMarketer

by kuroyagi

"The least trusted were also new media channels, such as mobile advertising, display ads, video ads and paid search results. "

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]]> Yahoo committed seppuku today http://calacanis.com/2009/07/29/yahoo-committed-seppuku-today/ "Oh, you like my house and you're willing to pay double what I paid for it? Did I mention I just redid the kitchen, bought the lot next door and put in a newHVAC system?" How much is it worth to you now? That's gangster CEO-level poker playing 2009-07-29T21:36:48Z marco yahoo, microsoft, search, search engine

Yahoo committed seppuku today

by marco

"Oh, you like my house and you're willing to pay double what I paid for it? Did I mention I just redid the kitchen, bought the lot next door and put in a newHVAC system?" How much is it worth to you now? That's gangster CEO-level poker playing

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]]> FreeAppAlert - Free iPhone apps that were paid iPhone apps yesterday http://freeappalert.com/ freeappalert Paid iPhone Apps that just became free. 2009-07-28T10:58:46Z gregg iphone

FreeAppAlert - Free iPhone apps that were paid iPhone apps yesterday

by gregg

freeappalert Paid iPhone Apps that just became free.

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]]> GeoBase - Home http://www.geobase.ca/geobase/en/index.html <blockquote><p>All distributed data should be accessed and used relatively to the GeoBase Unrestricted Use Licence Agreement. With this licence, users are granted a non-exclusive, fully paid, royalty-free right and licence to exercise all intellectual property rights in the data. This includes the right to use, incorporate, sublicense (with further right of sublicensing), modify, improve, further develop, and distribute the data; and to manufacture and/or distribute Derivative Products. The Licensee shall identify GeoBase as a data source.</p></blockquote> 2009-07-17T03:56:29Z karlcow data, geo

GeoBase - Home

by karlcow

All distributed data should be accessed and used relatively to the GeoBase Unrestricted Use Licence Agreement. With this licence, users are granted a non-exclusive, fully paid, royalty-free right and licence to exercise all intellectual property rights in the data. This includes the right to use, incorporate, sublicense (with further right of sublicensing), modify, improve, further develop, and distribute the data; and to manufacture and/or distribute Derivative Products. The Licensee shall identify GeoBase as a data source.

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]]> V3: Paid Model Scenarios for Newspapers Online http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=ptabK1xIwHqINwJHxM3ZXdw&hl=en 2009-06-04T06:20:47Z rvoluer économie, journal, journalisme, e-business

V3: Paid Model Scenarios for Newspapers Online

by rvoluer

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]]> UBCD for Windows - Bootable recovery CD - contains software used for repairing, restoring, or diagnosing almost any computer problem http://www.ubcd4win.com/index.htm Our goal is to be the most complete and easy to use free computer diagnostic tool. Almost all software included in UBCD4Win are freeware utilities for Windows®. Some of the tools inlcuded are "free for personal use" copies so users need to respect these licenses. A few of the tools included in UBCD4Win are paid for and licensed software owned by UBCD4win. On occasion we work with software companies/authors for permission to include their software in our download or have requested their software better support PE. Users can freely share copies of UBCD4Win with friends but selling UBCD4Win for a profit is not acceptable. 2009-05-21T16:16:44Z decembre windows, recovery, freeware, livecd, cd, free, software, utilitaire, boot, bootcd, tool, reparer

UBCD for Windows - Bootable recovery CD - contains software used for repairing, restoring, or diagnosing almost any computer problem

by decembre & 2 other(s)

Our goal is to be the most complete and easy to use free computer diagnostic tool. Almost all software included in UBCD4Win are freeware utilities for Windows®. Some of the tools inlcuded are "free for personal use" copies so users need to respect these licenses. A few of the tools included in UBCD4Win are paid for and licensed software owned by UBCD4win. On occasion we work with software companies/authors for permission to include their software in our download or have requested their software better support PE. Users can freely share copies of UBCD4Win with friends but selling UBCD4Win for a profit is not acceptable.

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]]> How Google detects paid links in websites | SeoUnique Blog http://www.seounique.com/blog/how-google-finds-paid-links/ 2009-05-20T18:05:26Z br1o pagerank, google, pr, seo

How Google detects paid links in websites | SeoUnique Blog

by br1o

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]]> Introducing Software as a Network (SaaN) http://www.freshbooks.com/blog/2009/05/07/introducing-software-as-a-network-saan/ FreshBooks is an online invoicing and time tracking service that helps professionals in over 100 countries save time, get paid faster, look professional and focus on what they love to do — their work. 2009-05-08T00:20:19Z gregg facturation

Introducing Software as a Network (SaaN)

by gregg

FreshBooks is an online invoicing and time tracking service that helps professionals in over 100 countries save time, get paid faster, look professional and focus on what they love to do — their work.

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]]> ConceptShare http://www.conceptshare.com/ ConceptShare allows you to easily share designs inside Workspaces that contain designs related to a certain topic or project. It’s easy to invite people into a workspace. Invite team members, managers, clients, and consultants to add and reply to comments, chat and markup designs. People do not have to be in the workspace at the same time to contribute. Workspace members can log-in anytime to any workspace they are member. If members do happen to be in the workspace at the same time they can collaborate with real-time chat and real-time comment updates and concept updates. Paid accounts can manage multiple workspaces and premium accounts can be branded to your logo and colors. 2009-04-19T00:28:53Z gregg applications en ligne, webdesign

ConceptShare

by gregg & 5 other(s)

ConceptShare allows you to easily share designs inside Workspaces that contain designs related to a certain topic or project. It’s easy to invite people into a workspace. Invite team members, managers, clients, and consultants to add and reply to comments, chat and markup designs. People do not have to be in the workspace at the same time to contribute. Workspace members can log-in anytime to any workspace they are member. If members do happen to be in the workspace at the same time they can collaborate with real-time chat and real-time comment updates and concept updates. Paid accounts can manage multiple workspaces and premium accounts can be branded to your logo and colors.

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]]> ByetHost.com http://byethost.com/ Free Hosting, Paid Hosting, Reseller Services & VPS Servers : Byet Internet 2009-04-14T17:50:57Z jakamos WebMaster.FreeHost.EN

ByetHost.com

by jakamos

Free Hosting, Paid Hosting, Reseller Services & VPS Servers : Byet Internet

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]]> Hitwise Intelligence - Heather Dougherty - US: Who Benefits from Circuit City Closure Online http://weblogs.hitwise.com/heather-dougherty/2009/04/post_4.html "Both of the retailers are receiving the search traffic from the portfolio of branded terms in opposite ways. For Radioshack.com, 100% of the traffic from the Circuit City Terms was from paid search over the 4 weeks ending April 4, 2009. With Bestbuy.com, all of the search traffic was driven by organic search results during the same timeframe. " 2009-04-10T04:15:26Z kuroyagi search ads, Search Engine Marketing

Hitwise Intelligence - Heather Dougherty - US: Who Benefits from Circuit City Closure Online

by kuroyagi

"Both of the retailers are receiving the search traffic from the portfolio of branded terms in opposite ways. For Radioshack.com, 100% of the traffic from the Circuit City Terms was from paid search over the 4 weeks ending April 4, 2009. With Bestbuy.com, all of the search traffic was driven by organic search results during the same timeframe. "

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]]> Free and Paid Thumbnails for Websites http://www.picoshot.com/ Picoshot offers thumbnails for free at 120x90 pixels. To put these thumbnails in your site, you will simply customize the code below and paste it into your web page or application: No registration. No fees. No limits. 2009-03-30T14:16:49Z Spone thumbnail, screenshot, free

Free and Paid Thumbnails for Websites

by Spone

Picoshot offers thumbnails for free at 120x90 pixels. To put these thumbnails in your site, you will simply customize the code below and paste it into your web page or application: No registration. No fees. No limits.

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]]> Would you travel to save money on surgery? http://healthbase.wordpress.com/2009/03/09/would-you-travel-to-save-money-on-surgery Uninsured Americans also are shopping around for surgery in the U.S. in record numbers. Rodney Larson, a self-employed electrician from Minnesota, used Healthbase Online Inc. to arrange a triple heart bypass at Galichia Heart Hospital in Wichita, Kansas. He paid $13,000 flat fee for the surgery, about $90,000 dollars less than the rate for uninsured patients in Minnesota. 2009-03-10T04:07:54Z medtours06 triple heart bypass, heart bypass surgery, bypass surgery, heart bypass, surgery, uninsured Americans, surgery in the US, self-employed, electrician, minnesota, healthbase, Galichia Heart Hospital, wichita, kansas, uninsured patients, Wall Street Journal

Would you travel to save money on surgery?

by medtours06

Uninsured Americans also are shopping around for surgery in the U.S. in record numbers. Rodney Larson, a self-employed electrician from Minnesota, used Healthbase Online Inc. to arrange a triple heart bypass at Galichia Heart Hospital in Wichita, Kansas. He paid $13,000 flat fee for the surgery, about $90,000 dollars less than the rate for uninsured patients in Minnesota.

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]]> Dutch government study: net effect of P2P use is positive http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20090120-dutch-government-study-net-effect-of-p2p-use-is-positive.html <blockquote><p>Curiously, freeloaders consume paid content in the same amounts as nondownloaders—for games, freeloaders even buy more than non-downloaders.</p></blockquote> 2009-01-22T12:24:07Z karlcow musique, p2p, societé

Dutch government study: net effect of P2P use is positive

by karlcow

Curiously, freeloaders consume paid content in the same amounts as nondownloaders—for games, freeloaders even buy more than non-downloaders.

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]]> ODP - Open Directory Project http://www.dmoz.org/ The Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors. The Republic of the Web The web continues to grow at staggering rates. Automated search engines are increasingly unable to turn up useful results to search queries. The small paid editorial staffs at commercial directory sites can't keep up with submissions, and the quality and comprehensiveness of their directories has suffered. Link rot is setting in and they can't keep pace with the growth of the Internet. Instead of fighting the explosive growth of the Internet, the Open Directory provides the means for the Internet to organize itself. As the Internet grows, so do the number of net-citizens. These citizens can each organize a small portion of the web and present it back to the rest of the population, culling out the bad and useless and keeping only the best content. 2009-01-02T18:33:28Z Emaux sitographie, ressources, annuaire

ODP - Open Directory Project

by Emaux & 17 other(s)

The Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors. The Republic of the Web The web continues to grow at staggering rates. Automated search engines are increasingly unable to turn up useful results to search queries. The small paid editorial staffs at commercial directory sites can't keep up with submissions, and the quality and comprehensiveness of their directories has suffered. Link rot is setting in and they can't keep pace with the growth of the Internet. Instead of fighting the explosive growth of the Internet, the Open Directory provides the means for the Internet to organize itself. As the Internet grows, so do the number of net-citizens. These citizens can each organize a small portion of the web and present it back to the rest of the population, culling out the bad and useless and keeping only the best content.

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]]> Rands In Repose: Dumbing Down the Cloud http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2008/11/25/dumbing_down_the_cloud.html <blockquote><p>It’s those marketing nerds getting paid too much money to rename ideas we’ve already had. </p></blockquote> 2008-11-26T02:34:24Z karlcow web2.0

Rands In Repose: Dumbing Down the Cloud

by karlcow

It’s those marketing nerds getting paid too much money to rename ideas we’ve already had.

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]]> The Official Netflix Blog: Encoding for streaming http://blog.netflix.com/2008/11/encoding-for-streaming.html <blockquote><p>This venture is doomed to fail! WMV? Silverlight? Are you kidding? Isn't it about time for Netflix to grow up?</p> <p>NBC was paid by Microsoft to use this technology for the '08 Olympics - NBC abandoned the technology as soon as Olympics were over. MLB used Silverlight for the same reason - Microsoft subsidized the project. Did you read the news last week? MLB is abandoning Silverlight for 2009 season in favor of Flash.</p> <p>Netflix is marrying itself to yet another also-ran technology from Microsoft. This should be a fun train wreck to watch!</p></blockquote><p>C'est le film qu'on attend tous sur Netflix : "Le Silverlight infernal". Si ça pouvait nous emporter un Icaza au passage, ce ne serait pas plus mal.</p> 2008-11-22T01:26:05Z night.kame netflix, wmv, Silverlight, wreckage

The Official Netflix Blog: Encoding for streaming

by night.kame

This venture is doomed to fail! WMV? Silverlight? Are you kidding? Isn't it about time for Netflix to grow up?

NBC was paid by Microsoft to use this technology for the '08 Olympics - NBC abandoned the technology as soon as Olympics were over. MLB used Silverlight for the same reason - Microsoft subsidized the project. Did you read the news last week? MLB is abandoning Silverlight for 2009 season in favor of Flash.

Netflix is marrying itself to yet another also-ran technology from Microsoft. This should be a fun train wreck to watch!

C'est le film qu'on attend tous sur Netflix : "Le Silverlight infernal". Si ça pouvait nous emporter un Icaza au passage, ce ne serait pas plus mal.

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]]> Great American Writers and Their Cocktails : NPR http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6624971 Famous writers and drinks are inseparable, despite the price some paid for the vice. Ernest Hemingway loved the Mojito, William Faulkner had his mint juleps, and F. Scott Fitzgerald was convinced gin was the way to go (he thought its smell would be undetectable on his breath). Hemingway & Bailey's Bartending Guide delves into the drinking habits of America's top writers to reveal their favorite cocktails. Steve Inskeep talks with author Mark Bailey and illustrator Edward Hemingway -- grandson of the writer -- about their new book. Below are excerpts from the guide, including cocktail recipes, drinking stories and writers' famous passages about imbibing. 2008-09-24T15:12:49Z sbrothier literature, drink, euvs, euvs-content

Great American Writers and Their Cocktails : NPR

by sbrothier

Famous writers and drinks are inseparable, despite the price some paid for the vice. Ernest Hemingway loved the Mojito, William Faulkner had his mint juleps, and F. Scott Fitzgerald was convinced gin was the way to go (he thought its smell would be undetectable on his breath). Hemingway & Bailey's Bartending Guide delves into the drinking habits of America's top writers to reveal their favorite cocktails. Steve Inskeep talks with author Mark Bailey and illustrator Edward Hemingway -- grandson of the writer -- about their new book. Below are excerpts from the guide, including cocktail recipes, drinking stories and writers' famous passages about imbibing.

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]]> Google Alert http://www.googlealert.com/ for keeping track of new hits on Google for your search terms. (Up to 3 terms at a time for free, paid has more). I don't use this right now, but I may use it in the future. 2008-09-17T06:58:28Z Foolster41 search, google

Google Alert

by Foolster41 & 7 other(s)

for keeping track of new hits on Google for your search terms. (Up to 3 terms at a time for free, paid has more). I don't use this right now, but I may use it in the future.

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]]> OTA Search Share: Expedia Leading the Way http://blog.compete.com/2008/09/11/online-travel-agency-search-share-expedia-orbitz-travelocity-priceline/ "Expedia is the class of the industry when it comes to search though, with a 26% share. This means that they receive traffic from just over one out of every four clicks (both paid and natural) to a major OTA from search, followed by rivals Travelocity and Orbitz. Priceline has moved into the fourth position by growing its share by nearly 5%, replacing Cheaptickets, which has fallen by almost the same percentage." 2008-09-12T08:36:41Z kuroyagi search, travel, search ads, expedia

OTA Search Share: Expedia Leading the Way

by kuroyagi

"Expedia is the class of the industry when it comes to search though, with a 26% share. This means that they receive traffic from just over one out of every four clicks (both paid and natural) to a major OTA from search, followed by rivals Travelocity and Orbitz. Priceline has moved into the fourth position by growing its share by nearly 5%, replacing Cheaptickets, which has fallen by almost the same percentage."

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]]> PHP Bugs: #17079: setlocale changes the internal representation of floats http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=17079 <blockquote><p>The system uses Oracle for persistence, where the decimal separator is a comma, as is a custom in that country. So numbers came in from Oracle, and then PHP was unable to process them correctly. For example, if a client had a debt of 25,12€, and the client paid 5€, then the comparison ($paid_amount > $debt) said incorrectly that the paid amount was more than the debt. Result: hundreds of wasted man-hours. In the end we recompiled PHP without that "fix".</p></blockquote><p>Oui, chez Zend aussi on aime faire de la grosse daube.</p> 2008-09-08T22:16:54Z night.kame php, i18n, kludge

PHP Bugs: #17079: setlocale changes the internal representation of floats

by night.kame

The system uses Oracle for persistence, where the decimal separator is a comma, as is a custom in that country. So numbers came in from Oracle, and then PHP was unable to process them correctly. For example, if a client had a debt of 25,12€, and the client paid 5€, then the comparison ($paid_amount > $debt) said incorrectly that the paid amount was more than the debt. Result: hundreds of wasted man-hours. In the end we recompiled PHP without that "fix".

Oui, chez Zend aussi on aime faire de la grosse daube.

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