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I've been freelancing for a while now and in general it's gone like this: 1. A potential customer requests a quote for a project 2. I send them a quote and (usually) they agree to have work done 3. I complete the work…

I really love surfing, so recently I decided to start taking cold showers so it wouldn't be a huge shock when I jumped in the water in the winter months. Wetsuit, or no wetsuit, believe me when I say that it's still a…

I'd like to build a website, cultivate it a bit, and then ultimately sell it so I decided to poke around on www.flippa.com today to see what people were actually buying. For the fun of it, I sorted by price and was…

It's been a while since I've seen this question asked and since the landscape changes so frequently I'd really appreciate your input (especially since I'm about to launch some mobile apps). Which mobile advertising…

Knowing your competition is a very important part of business and I'm curious to get your input as to how you figure out who your direct and indirect competition is. I recently needed to do a specific task and while…

I'm trying to buy a domain name from someone that's just kind of squatting on it. They bought it back in 1997 and using http://www.archive.org I was able to determine that they were trying to start a web hosting…

Last Friday was a pretty interesting day. A friend of a friend's dad whom I have never met randomly called me out of the blue and said he wanted to have lunch with me to discuss some potential web development work. I…

<disclaimer> I'm sure this has been asked before but after a couple of hours of searching I wasn't able to find anything that really answered my question 100%. If you can point me in the right direction it would…

Did anyone watch the F8 keynote today? I think the "Like" buttons are alright and the social bar will be annoying, but Open Graph has a lot of potential to do some amazing things. I'm not sure how I feel about Facebook…