Innovative Thunder calls “Pay with a Tweet” as the first social payment system, where people pay with the value of their social circle. I think it’s neat and highly effective.

Go and test-drive “Pay with a Tweet” and download “Oh My God What Happened And What Should I Do?” book? You can pay it with a Tweet. It’s that simple, straightforward and effective.

If you don’t have Twitter (what?!), you can use your Facebook account to post the promotion to your “Facebook Wall”.

You have a Facebook account, right?

Sell with a Tweet, Pay with a Tweet originally appeared on ajb{log} on October 5, 2010. Tweet This

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The key insight behind these best practices is the realization that only 10-20% of the total end-user response time is spent getting the HTML document. You need to focus on the other 80-90% if you want to make your pages noticeably faster. These rules are the best practices for optimizing the way servers and browsers handle that 80-90% of the user experience.

• Rule 1 – Make Fewer HTTP Requests
• Rule 2 – Use a Content Delivery Network
• Rule 3 – Add an Expires Header
• Rule 4 – Gzip Components
• Rule 5 – Put CSS at the Top
• Rule 6 – Move Scripts to the Bottom
• Rule 7 – Avoid CSS Expressions
• Rule 8 – Make JavaScript and CSS External
• Rule 9 – Reduce DNS Lookups
• Rule 10 – Minify JavaScript
• Rule 11 – Avoid Redirects
• Rule 12 – Remove Duplicate Scripts
• Rule 13 – Turn Off ETags
• Rule 14 – Make AJAX Cacheable and Small

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Credits: Steve Sounders

Rules for High Performance Web Sites originally appeared on ajb{log} on May 11, 2007. Tweet This

Description of the ebook from their site:

Web Designer’s Success Guide is the definitive guide to starting your own freelance Web design business. The author, Kevin Airgid, grossed over $100,000 USD a year developing sites for various national level clients. In this book he gives designers step-by-step instructions on how to achieve the following:

• Transition from full-time to self-employment
• Freelance on the side to make additional income
• Find new clients and keep them coming back for more
• Market your freelance business
• Manage your projects professionally
• Price your services appropriately

Web Designers Success Guide: how to profit from freelance web design (FREE ebook) originally appeared on ajb{log} on April 27, 2007. Tweet This

[Book] The Design of Everyday Things (Paperback) originally appeared on ajb{log} on August 24, 2005. Tweet This