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Godaddy On Tonight’s Super Bowl Commercials: Registrations Up 466% Over Last Year; Traffic Doubled & Now Over 45 Million Domains

Well I know there’s been a lot of discussion inside and outside the domain industry tonight on the Godaddy Super Bowl ads.
Love them or hate them, Godaddy says the two commercial they ran tonight on the Super Bowl are the most successful Super Bowl ads in their history in terms of response, traffic and sales.
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12 Fun Hacks for Getting More Out of YouTube

There’s no doubt that plain old YouTube can be tons of fun, but when you get bored of watching clips the traditional way, there are a ton of sites that can help enhance the experience.
Whether you want to view a video with a far-away friend, compare two clips, or find more interesting ways of browsing and sharing, there are plenty of options out there. The web community is known for creating hacks that improve your surfing experience; now we’ve dug into some of those tools and hacks built around YouTube.
Have a look through our 10 choices and let us know of any other YouTube mashups, hacks, or similar sites and services you’ve used. We’d love to hear about them in the comments below.
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How-to send email with a Google account form Ruby On Rails

I have seen many articles in the web that explain how to send an email with a Google account from a Ruby On Rails application. However, I believe there are several faulty or incomplete examples around. That’s why I decided to share a working solution that I used in various projects.
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Dynamic context in Rspec - don’t repeat yourself

Advanced rspec features allow to use very effective technique to organize tests. You are able to construct and define context in more flexible way than before. We use to have less problems with subject and behavior. And context is what testing is all about. Just because web apps manage data, behavior seriously depends on current state of the database.
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Scratch your own itch

The easiest, most straight-forward way to create a great product or service is to make something you want to use. That lets you design what you know – and you will figure out immediately whether or not what you are making is any good.
At 37signals, we build products we need to run our own business. For example, we wanted a way to keep track of whom we talk to, what we said, and when we need to follow up next. So we created Highrise, our contact-management software. There was no need for focus-groups, market studies, or middlemen. We have the itch, so we scratched it.
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How to Make a Mind Map

The 'Laws of Mind Mapping' were originally devised by Tony Buzan when he codified the use of imagery, colour and association and coined the phrase 'Mind Mapping'. In the intervening 30 plus years, there have been many variations on the original 'Mind Map ' and the widespread usage of mapping software of various sorts, has dramatically changed what is possible.
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The time element (and microformats)

Microformats are a way of adding extra semantic information to a webpage using HTML classes — information like an event’s date and time, a person’s phone number, an organisation’s email address, etc.
They aren’t a “standard” per se, but they are a widely adopted convention within the geek community. And since they use an agreed-upon set of class names, they are as compatible with HTML5 as they are with HTML4 or XHTML.
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