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Link Goodness – August 4th

by Julia Filed under: Knowledge

As promised here’s your weekly dose of the top links we’ve been sharing.

Enjoy.

Teux Deux

Keep organised with this “simple, designy, to-do app”.

Contrast rebellion

A website dedicating itself to the importance of contrast in web-design: ”Low contrast font and unreadable texts.. To hell with them!

Git Enterprise

GitEnterprise’s free account allows unlimited git repositories hosting!

Fiverr

Got a fiverr? The possibilities are pretty much endless. Get someone to design you a logo or even be your “Facebook girlfriend” for a week.

Social media winners: Disney

Check out the social media strategy that has helped Disney become one of the most powerful brands, online and off.

A little monkey love

by Mark P. Filed under: Products

We all like cakes. We all like a bit of love. So when a mysterious box arrived at the office on Friday from a client with the most beautiful cup cakes in, we were super chuffed.

The sparkly cakes from the lovely folk at Go Ape were to thank us for delivering their summer campaign with such brevity and fabulousness!

We built the social competition using the pro version of our new Rusic.com product, enabling us to build the competition in days instead of weeks (or months). We think it’s pretty awesome and after only a few days it’s already got some amazing stories going on.

Craziness by Go Ape, design by Refreshed, social and tech by Simpleweb, and of course the CAKES by Rachaels Kitchen. Awesome.

Rusic adds moderation, UI tweaks and Webhooks

by Mark P. Filed under: Products

We’ve just put live a few sweet little updates to Rusic.com.

We’ve improved the “discuss” button from the previous orange link. It’s only a little change but the improvement is big. It’s much more obvious now what is expected of the user.

We also improved the footer and more importantly improved stability. You also no longer need to log out to view the buckets on the home page. Expect a big update in this area soon…

The PRO version (coming soon) is awesome

Check out the lovely new moderation area for the yet to be publicly released PRO version. It enables quick moderation of comments and ideas within a bucket. Nothing is deleted it’s just deactivated.

There’s also a new webhook system for firing events to external services, meaning integration with mailing providers is pretty straight forward amongst many other cool things.

Also GoApe is the latest PRO user for their summer campaign as you can see Rusic is fully skinnable… We’ll save that for another post.

link goodness – 26th july

by Julia Filed under: Products

Interesting posts, advice and tips! Here’s another batch of the links we’ve been looking at this last week.

Enjoy.

Contests

Should you add contests to your marketing strategy? Here’s 4 reasons why you should!

What is quality?

How do you define what quality is? Seth Godin explains.

qTranslate 

If you’re looking for a way to setup a multilingual site in WordPress try the qTranslate plugin.

Super easy to use!

Rack-webconsole

An awesome way to interact with Rack applications from your browser. Perfect for local development and staging environments.

Check it out!

Agile development

Learn and improve agile development through Tetris. A cool presentation by Mark Daggett

OpenStack 

OpenStack is a global collaboration of developers and cloud computing technologists producing open source cloud computing platform for public and private clouds. Join their global community!

Mentor SME scheme: “Rejected”

Mentors in new government network “prevented from giving bespoke business advice”. Find out why.