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VideoEgg is a new kind of rich media advertising network that guarantees brand engagement. Our network consists of over 100 million uniques across hundreds of leading sites, blogs, and gaming sites, as well as social and mobile applications. We provide outstanding consumer reach and accountable online advertising for brands. - Nick Bouton

What follows are four problems I see all the time, each of which makes me roll my eyes and sometimes even terminate the conversation early. - Nick Bouton

This will change the way you design websites. Add a line of code to your pages and choose from hundreds of fonts. Simple, bulletproof, standards compliant, accessible, and totally legal. - Nick Bouton

I recently spoke on a panel in Santa Monica organized by my friend Jason Nazar, CEO of DocStoc, titled Startups Uncensored, Pitching Venture Capitalists. There were about 200 people in the audience. - Nick Bouton

When it comes to password validation using regular expressions, things can get a bit complicated. Normally, you want people to enter a "good" password that has a mix of numbers and letters. But you may not care where the numbers and letters appear. So you're not looking for a "pattern" in the string. You just want a letter somewhere and a number somewhere. - Nick Bouton

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Halloween is very close and many designers / website owners are probably in need of quality & free Halloween themed brush sets & vector images. Here is a collection of very nice free design resources which includes pumpkins, witches, creepy trees, bats, skulls & more. To summarize, a complete design set for a Halloween-related event or a web content. - Nick Bouton

The sharecount button for Facebook displays the number of times the current page has been shared on Facebook and allows visitors to share it themselves. Inspired by the popular Retweet buttons, it was built by us folks behind awe.sm on top of our new data API. - Nick Bouton

BackType Widgets let you feature tweets and comments on your blogs or other websites with a couple of lines of HTML - Nick Bouton

One of the more annoying shortcomings of standard ASP.NET validation is it's lack of support for extending the the UI on the client side. For example, there is no way to set the css class of the input control when validation fails. I was working on some javascript to fix this when I came across an article that did just about the same thing. Combining my work with Scott's yields a bit more efficient javascript. - Nick Bouton

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Welcome to Gotham Writers' Workshop. Teaching more than 6,000 students a year, Gotham is the leading creative writing school in NYC and the United States. - Nick Bouton

Let’s say this to one another immediately. This is not just another poetry site. PoetrySpeaks allows you to experience poetry in a host of interesting ways. - Nick Bouton

Designing For Influence strives to be a catalog highlighting examples on the web of the 6 principles of Influence. The six principles of influence as developed by Robert B. Cialdini in his book Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion are Reciprocity, Commitment & Consistency, Social Proof, Liking, Authority and Scarcity. - Nick Bouton

In the midst of a busy project it's all too easy to forget the nuances that distinguish great products. Mental Notes brings together 50 insights from psychology into an easy reference and brainstorming tool. Each card describes one insight into human behavior and suggests ways to apply this to the design of Web sites, Web apps, and software applications. - Nick Bouton

Depending on how you see it, social software is either all the rage or so 2008. You know the stuff: Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, Foursquare.... There's no talking about the web these days without it—that's for sure—but social software tools are quickly becoming an integral part of the way we run our day-to-day lives. - Nick Bouton

Jason Fried hates lame meetings, tech companies that don't generate revenue, and companies that treat their employees like children. A peek inside his typical workday - Nick Bouton

Your book—no boundaries—just a few clicks away. - Nick Bouton

AntiXSS helps you to protect your current applications from cross-site scripting attacks, at the same time helping you to protect your legacy application with its Security Runtime Engine. Working with customer and partner feedback, AntiXSS incorporates radically and innovatively rethought features, offering you a newer, more powerful weapon against the often employed cross-site scripting (XSS) attack. - Nick Bouton

AntiXSS helps you to protect your current applications from cross-site scripting attacks, at the same time helping you to protect your legacy application with its Security Runtime Engine. Working with customer and partner feedback, AntiXSS incorporates radically and innovatively rethought features, offering you a newer, more powerful weapon against the often employed cross-site scripting (XSS) attack. - Nick Bouton

The Microsoft Anti-Cross Site Scripting Library V3.1 (Anti-XSS V3.1) is an encoding library designed to help developers protect their ASP.NET web-based applications from XSS attacks. The library helps you protect your current applications from cross-site scripting attacks; at the same time it helps you to protect your legacy application with its Security Runtime Engine (SRE). - Nick Bouton

Advice for small businesses on how to prepare for the holiday season by generating customer loyalty, implementing timely marketing, and determining inventory size. - Nick Bouton

HTML email newsletters have come a long way in the five years since this article was first published. HTML email is still a very successful communications medium for both publishers and readers. Publishers can track rates for email opens, forwards, and clickthroughs, and thereby can measure reader interest in products and topics; readers are presented with information that's laid out like a web page, in a way that's more visually appealing, and much easier to scan and navigate, than plain text email. - Nick Bouton

AntiXSS 3.1 helps you to protect your current applications from cross-site scripting attacks, at the same time helping you to protect your legacy application with its Security Runtime Engine - Nick Bouton

I’ve discussed creating a WCF or ASMX Service proxy for operation with jQuery and without using the Microsoft AJAX libraries. This was some time ago and some things have changed since then – most notably the introduction native JSON parsers in IE 8 and FireFox 3.5 as well as some changes in .NET 3.5 SP1 that makes some JSON transfer tasks a little bit easier in some situations. So I think it’s time to revisit this topic and update the code I showed in the past. - Nick Bouton

How can small business leverage Social Media to communicate to their customers? 4 steps to get started. - Nick Bouton

World's first database measuring online engagement for the top brands. See how your company stacks up versus the ENGAGEMENTdb report. - Nick Bouton

The ASP.NET team today released a significant new update of the Microsoft Ajax Library (Preview 6). This update includes a bunch of new capabilities and improvements to our client-side AJAX library, and can be used with any version of ASP.NET (including ASP.NET 2.0, 3.5 and 4.0), and can be used in both ASP.NET Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC projects. Today’s release includes the following feature improvements: - Nick Bouton

Discovering the value of lean product development and minimum viable product - Nick Bouton

Some decisions are very easy. Like the one to cash-in on an unexpected bestseller. But some are very hard. Would you rather drive home pissed from a party or walk? Sayonara if you choose to walk, because you're far more likely to be run over by all the other people driving back from the party pissed! - Nick Bouton