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Social Media has come a long way in recent years. It's no understatement to say that social media analysts are in fact behind the times if they take so much as a few weeks off of what's going on.

This is particularly so if those analysts took the last few weeks off. With the advent of Twitter's Chirp conference and Facebook's F8, there's a lot of new stuff ready for launch, and it's going to change the shape of the internet.

We live in a fast moving world. In this line of work, the industry changes every day. If I'm out of action for a year, I'm obsolete. We have a fast food, faster broadband, TV on-demand, get-rich-quick culture.

This post appeals to the personal side of you. Sometimes it takes a real kick in the teeth to notice when you're moving too quickly. With speed comes insecurity, noise, and a lack of the now.

There are tonnes of apps on Apple's App Store. As a one-man organisation in the web and graphics industry, I thought I would share my rundown of what I feel are the most useful apps on my iPhone to date for business. (Sorry, Blowfish).

Most of you reading this will have a pretty good idea of the work that goes into your house; the keeping, the caring and the decisions that got you there in the first place. There's a number of people out there who never realised the similarities between owning a home and owning a website or web presence.

To illustrate my intent with this post, I’m going to use an example that applied to my personal life recently.

About a year ago I was good friends with a lady named Natalya. We collaborated on a few projects and, as a result, we spent quite a while in voice conversations over the internet voice application “Skype”.

The web has come a long way in the last five years. Thankfully, there's been one company who saved us from the wrath of Internet Explorer very early on. And as a result, lots of people are showing their gratitude over the coming days as their flagship product, Firefox, turns 5.

Take a few minutes out to check out what people are doing to celebrate this browsing milestone: Firefox 5 on Flickr.

The PageRank. The PR, as the cool kids say. A crucial part of search engine optimisation that customers and visitors are often blissfully unaware of.

To some, it is an artful process, to others, a dark art. Whatever your viewpoint, though, here is what I believe is the truth about Google PageRanks.

Ian from ZenHabits identifies a core point to consider: will power is a limited resource. As it is a commodity, it needs to be treated as one every single day.

Free icons are a mixed bag of things. There's quite a number of sets of them out there, and mixing/matching from sets can often give a disjointed end solution. That's why we've created a bunch of completely free social icons for you to use for your projects.

When life is hard, work is hard, personal life is hard and the world feels like its caving in around you, it's easy to get lost in the noise of life and the dark clouds of the mind and forget some really important things.

For the last year or so I've felt my passion for certain kinds of charity grow ten-fold. Call it life, call it a calling from God, I soon learned that we can all do our bit for good causes even when we're in that noise, and in those dark clouds. Here's how.