1. The Art of the Checkin: From Location to Content to Brand  permalink

The Art of the Checkin: From Location to Content to Brand
Mashable.com

Caroline Giegerich is the blogstress behind the Daily Marauder and a digital marketing consultant. Follow her on Twitter for more social media and emerging tech insights.

2. Goldman Offering Clients a Chance to Invest in Facebook  permalink

Goldman Offering Clients a Chance to Invest in Facebook
Dealbook.nytimes.com

Goldman Sachs has reached out to its wealthy private clients, offering them a chance to invest in Facebook, the hot social networking giant that is considering a possible public offering in 2012, according to people familiar with the matter.

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3. Apple Holds Smartphone Lead, But Android Is Gaining  permalink

Apple Holds Smartphone Lead, But Android Is Gaining
Ryan Kim / GigaOMTech

While Android surges among new smartphone buyers, Apple iOS continues to hold on to the overall marketshare lead, though still within spitting distance of a fading BlackBerry OS and a hard-charging Android OS, according to the latest figures from the Nielsen Company.

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2011 The Year Of Android vs iPhone - who wins?   —  Prediction season has started early this year. Fortune, Techcrunch, Scoble, Louis Gray, and others are already picking winners in the Smartphone market, which most see as a two horse race between iPhone and Android. My prediction? Both will win because they are playing different games. Android will win the market share battle, but Apple will ...

4. 32 Javascript Alternatives with Pure CSS – Updated  permalink

32 Javascript Alternatives with Pure CSS – Updated
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5. How to Survive a Slashdotting on a Small Apache Server  permalink

How to Survive a Slashdotting on a Small Apache Server
Mocko.org.uk

…so your plain ordinary webserver just got listed on a high-traffic news site.  Slashdot?  Reddit?  Hacker News?  Well done, turns out you’re hosting something thousands of people want to read.  Now thousands of people want to come to your webserver at once.

6. In Investing, It’s When You Start and When You Finish  permalink

In Investing, It’s When You Start and When You Finish
Www.nytimes.com

Investors often have expectations of real annual returns greater than 7 percent — the areas in green. But over 20 years or longer, rates that high are rare.