Top 10 Cloud Applications of 2010

This post is an excerpt from Top 10 Cloud Computing Services for 2010 - ReadWriteCloud.

We chose our top 10 services based upon what trends bubbled in 2010 and the companies and organizations that responded or even set the tone for the overall market.

We looked at the entire landscape but with a particular focus on platforms.

Platforms provide infrastructure and serve as developer ecosystems. Platforms are where apps are created and served.

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Fonts: Choosing the right one

This post is an excerpt from “What Font Should I Use?”: Five Principles for Choosing and Using Typefaces - Smashing Magazine.

For many beginners, the task of picking fonts is a mystifying process. There seem to be endless choices — from normal, conventional-looking fonts to novelty candy cane fonts and bunny fonts — with no way of understanding the options, only never-ending lists of categories and recommendations. Selecting the right typeface is a mixture of firm rules and loose intuition, and takes years of experience to develop a feeling for. Here are five guidelines for picking and using fonts that I’ve developed in the course of using and teaching typography.

Superbook for Educators: Getting started with Technology

What do you make of this?

This post is an excerpt from Brief.

Less than an hour ago, the Twitter account weeted its intention to take down Amazon.com with its LOIC application, the software designed to launch Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, as directed by the group of hackers known only as "Anonymous." The group's "Operation Payback" campaign has already hit websites like MasterCard and Visa in recent days, successfully taking the sites offline for hours.

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Flash Animation: Wow

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