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Web ads and social networking: a perfect marriage

By Johan on September 25th, 2006.

Websites like Yahoo got their profit from online advertising right from their portals for years. But now this has all changed. Social networking sites have steadily grown of importance when it comes down to earning money from online advertising. The formula is simple, for example gaming sites were actually on …

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TrendWatch now accepting submissions!

By Andrew Faulkner on September 21st, 2006.

It’s an exciting time here at fadtastic as we’ve just opened up TrendWatch so that all can submit. So head on over and check out the submission form - awaiting your images of the web’s (and print’s) hot design elements. Seen a glossy …

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TrendWatch Launched | (beta)

By Andrew Faulkner on September 2nd, 2006.

Hurrah!

Visit TrendWatch

Update! Flickr has fixed the upload issue. Thank you for your patience. Submissions will now work.

For those out of the loop:

“TrendWatch is a user-influenced trends gallery. Put simply, you can screengrab bits of websites or take photos of ads on the bus which show off your favourite …

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Heads Up

By Andrew Faulkner on August 24th, 2006.

Amongst all the other busyness here at fadtastic, Joe Dizon has updated our beloved header (The Web Trends Parade). Many thanks Joe. Keep an eye out for the evolution of the fadtastic banner.

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Call For TrendWatch Feedback/Beta Testers

By Andrew Faulkner on August 21st, 2006.

Good day and good news - TrendWatch is working behind the scenes (hoorah!) and needs a little bit of TLC. We’re looking for people to give some feedback or to test out our latest feature. Here’s a teaser:

TrendWatch will be a user-influenced trends gallery. Put simply, you can screengrab bits …

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Back home…just…

By Andrew Faulkner on August 12th, 2006.

OK - I’m now back home in the UK (after a nervy flight after the recent events) and will get around to tidying the place up. Thanks to the authors who served up fantastic content whilst I was away. Great stuff, guys.

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Five Design Resources for August 9th, 2006

By Phil Renaud on August 9th, 2006.

Been awhile since I’ve posted my favourite design resources, but today was a special day: all my daily links are full, and my inbox had a few gems as well. Here’s the best five of the bunch:

Programmer Meet Designer: “This site was created to unite programmers …

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Holidays

By Andrew Faulkner on July 26th, 2006.

Right. Tomorrow I set off on my jollies (until 12th August). As I’m the admin around here (inflated ego alert!) things may get a little quiter. Normal service will be resumed on the 12th. I’m sure that the array of great authors here will provide content whilst I’m away.

Oh, …

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Articles that speak for themselves

By Andrew Faulkner on July 10th, 2006.

We are currently testing the water with RSS -> Audio posting. Essentially, one could subscribe to the fadtastic podcast (of such), which is automatically generated from our RSS feed. Not as good as a real podcast, but darn close!

Before we get knee deep in the logistics of it, would anyone …

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Bug Hunt!

By Andrew Faulkner on July 8th, 2006.

Now that the re-design has been welcomed, we ask that you comment below to announce any bugs that you think are present in fadtastic’s new shell. It’s inevitable that some small minor details have got through our net. They may be visual, broken/non-working links or simply something which grates …

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Redesign!

By Andrew Faulkner on July 7th, 2006.

fadtastic has re-designed to provide a smoother user experience. Content should now have increased readability and the whole website should be more usable and aesthetically pleasing. What’s changed?

- New Features: We have this news section, a 9Rules feed, a del.icio.us feed created by all our authors and some explanitory pages …

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