Facebook Home: Who Wins & Who Loses

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Facebook did not just launch a "Facebook Phone" last week, as was expected. Instead, along with the HTC First, it offered up Home, a "family of apps" that is neither a phone nor a smartphone operating system - but which may ultimately have a far greater impact on the mobile industry than either one of those things.

Facebook Home overlays a visually appealing "Cover Feed" onto the Android smartphone home screen. The Facebook member's Newsfeed, pictures, texts, select notifications and "Chat Heads" of their friends are all displayed. If the Facebook Home user is inside another app - any other app - and receives a Facebook Message from a friend, for example, a "Chat Head" - the friend's face and message - pops up on the phone screen. While not a true operating system, Home becomes the de facto user experience.

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10 Best Photographs from the Sony World Photography Awards 2013

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The following photographs are the official winners of the 2013 Sony World Photography Open Competition. The competition has ten categories: Panoramic, Arts and Culture, People, Low Light, Enhanced, Nature and Wildlife, Travel, Architecture, Split Second, and Smile. The winning images now compete for the Sony World Photography Awards Open Photographer of the Year title, which will be revealed at a gala ceremony on 25th April. This photographer will also receive $5,000. These beautiful images were selected from nearly 55,000 entries by amateur photographers across the globe.

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The 2013 Sony World Photography Award Winners

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The World Photography Organisation has announced the countdown to the close of the 2013 Sony World Photography Awards, one of the world’s leading photographic awards. There is just one month remaining for professional and amateur photographers from around the world to select and enter their best images of the year. This year's contest attracted more than 122,000 entries from 170 countries. The photographs are being judged in six different competition categories, including Professional, Open, and Student Focus.

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50 Best Websites - 2012 CSS Award Winners

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There are lots of websites launched in every day and some of are best websites. Today we are selected 50 best websites they winning css awards in 2012 for design inspiration. I looked at over hundreds of really inspiring css website designs today so I thought that I would share some with you and then make a series out the idea.

The collecting based on CSS & XHTML websites in this post and only the inspiring websites will be on display. I will put together a list of inspirational website designs showcase for your and i m sure you can get great inspiration.

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45 Award Winning Creative Advertisements

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Advertising is not simply advertising your products or services these days. With computer graphics and photography, modern advetisements allow for almost anything imaginable in the world of advertising. Companies spend millions and billions of dollars each year on advertising for their events but few ads stand out from the crowd.

In this post we showcased 45 award winning advertisements from the year 2011. You can learn a lot about being creative through these ads. You will be surprised how some advertisements manage to inspire you as well. So let’s have a look at some award winning ads of 2011.

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Check Out The 2012 Vimeo Festival + Awards Winners

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Back in April, Vimeo released the shortlists and opened voting for their 2012 VImeo Festival and last month they announced the finalists. The winners were announced during the festivities, which took place from June 7 – 9, and now you can watch them all right here.

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75 Reflective Photographs of Reflections

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I have no idea why it's so captivating. But capturing, not just an object, but its reflection is an effective photographic motif as old as photographs themselves. And for this week's Shooting Challenge, you mastered the technique.

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5 Secrets of Success From Kickstarter Winners

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Watching your product come to life through public support after pouring blood, sweat and tears into it is every entrepreneur's biggest dream. Kickstarter has become famous for making that a reality, serving as the birthplace of many now-thriving small businesses.

But just because Kickstarter has made it easier for you to raise awareness about a product doesn't mean that your campaign will be successfully funded. In fact, just assuming your product will be a hit with consumers and not taking intiatives before, during and after the project launch is a surefire way to fail.

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180 Beautiful Black & White Images

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Our cameras have captured color for a long time, but we're all still obsessed with black & white. How could that be? Participants to this week's Shooting Challenge offer 180 reasons why:

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55 Stunning Award Winning Photographs

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Photography is an amazing thing. Photography is one of the most popular topics/activities people love to talk about. They either love to click or to be clicked, but nobody has been escaped from the lucrativeness of the Photography.

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55 Stunning Award Winning Photographs

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Photography is an amazing thing. Photography is one of the most popular topics/activities people love to talk about. They either love to click or to be clicked, but nobody has been escaped from the lucrativeness of the Photography. With photographs, you can describe almost any emotion, sensation or any type of situation. Photographers from around the world keep travelling and looking for that ‘perfect shot’. Most of the times, the resulting image is an amazing combination of creative composition and unique situation.

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50 Best Award Winning CSS Design Websites

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Web design is the process of planning and creating a best CSS Design Websites. Text, images, digital media and programming elements are shaped by the web designer to produce the page seen on the web browser. Ideally, website designs should have valid XHTML and CSS.

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