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Dan Theis of Frisco, Texas is widely know as the leading expert when it comes to keyword research and search engine optimization. Way back in 2001 he released an e-book named SEO Fast Start and sold copies for around $25.00 each. His new 2007 version is 100 pages long, free, and aimed mostly at beginners, and did I mention it was free? It also covers a bit more, and as his community develops he will continue to give away more content in more formats.

Download the 2007 SEO Fast Start Guide by clicking here

Don’t miss out on the opportunity to gain worldwide recognition for your finest work. Enter the most prestigious juried competitions for graphic design and advertising. If selected, your award-winning pieces will be reproduced in Communication Arts’ 2007 Design Annual or Advertising Annual. Over 70,000 copies of each Annual will be in circulation worldwide, guaranteeing you outstanding exposure to potential clients and colleagues.

Guidelines and FAQs can be found at:
www.commarts.com/CA/magazine/comp/

Adobe Labs has launched a free color configuration tool called: kuler.
kuler is the first web-hosted application from Adobe Labs designed both to stand alone and to complement Adobe® Creative Suite® software. Built using Adobe® Flash® and ActionScript 3.0,

New in kuler are RSS feeds of the most popular, highest rated and newest color themes, an Apple Dashboard widget to subscribe to these feeds, UI enhancements requested by the kuler community, and new desktop patterns based on our highest rated themes.

kuler now provides a direct link to Adobe Creative Suite 3 family of software. A panel in Adobe Illustrator CS3, built entirely in Adobe Flash, provides direct access to the kuler online community from the desktop and from the desktop to the kuler online community. For more information, please see the kuler FAQ.

Designers, developers, project managers. Writers and editors. Information architects and usability specialists. People who make websites have been at it for more than a dozen years, yet almost nothing is known, statistically, about our profession. Who are we? Where do we live? What are our titles, our skills, our educational backgrounds? Where and with whom do we work? What do we earn? What do we value?

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On May 5th, 2007 AIGA Houston will celebrate Houstons design legacy with the AIGA Houston Design Gala at the Houstonian Hotel and Resort.

This year, we will honor our first ever Fellows, Cheryl Beckett of Minor Design Group, the University of Houston and Chris Hill of Hill, Texas State University and the Creative Summit. Both AIGA members will be honored that evening by the Houston chapter for their many years of continued service to our creative community and their commitment to design education. Fellows are selected based on their significant contribution to AIGA and their positive impact on both the local and national design communities. Honorees work will be on display at the event and more information will be available mid-February on the AIGA Houston Web site about ticket availability and event details.

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Google Inc. today, April 1, 2007, announced the launch of Google TiSP (BETA)™, a free in-home wireless broadband service that delivers online connectivity via users’ plumbing systems. The Toilet Internet Service Provider (TiSP) project is a self-installed, ad-supported online service that will be offered entirely free to any consumer with a WiFi-capable PC and a toilet connected to a local municipal sewage system.

“We’ve got that whole organizing-the-world’s-information thing more or less under control,” said Google Co-founder and President Larry Page, a longtime supporter of so-called “dark porcelain” research and development. “What’s interesting, though, is how many different modalities there are for actually getting that information to you - not to mention from you.”

For years, data carriers have confronted the “last hundred yards” problem for delivering data from local networks into individual homes. Now Google has successfully devised a “last hundred smelly yards” solution that takes advantage of preexisting plumbing and sewage systems and their related hydraulic data-transmission capabilities. “There’s actually a thriving little underground community that’s been studying this exact solution for a long time,” says Page. “And today our Toilet ISP team is pleased to be leading the way through the sewers, up out of your toilet and - splat - right onto your PC.”