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Seth Godin’s riff on what every good marketer knows has great advice.

If you’re not a regular listener of the Boagworld weekly web design / development podcast then you need to subscribe to it. They’ve had a month off and are back with episode 116 and a new site redesign - don’t mention the cows because its the part Paul didn’t design and everyone mentions it. They also provide a full written transcript on their podcast page. And don’t mention Paul’s new way of referencing his supporting links in the podcast (in human non-friendly terms), we’re all smarter than that right. Ha ha.

Seriously, if you’re a professional in this industry this is a staple of your diet. Get to it.

Magus have produced the Publicly Available Specification (PAS) 124: Defining, implementing and managing website standards. Its a hefty 85 pound price tag but for a company its small change when you think about it. (via Matt Robin)

A few weeks ago I forgot to post this link to Erick Schonfeld’s post on Ray Ozzie’s strategy memo - Microsoft’s future is not in creating stand alone software anymore but will be in the direction of collaborative applications. Software is Dead, Long Live the Web. Which makes me wonder why so many software people I meet still don’t get the desktop / web convergence thing. Of course that’s the direction we’re moving and its great to see Ozzie pick up the baton, too.

The Morgan Stanley March Internet Trends for 2008 are discussed by Mike Arrington.

Project Pier is a free open source self-hosted PHP application for managing tasks, projects and teams thorugh an intuitive web interface.

Zoho is an online project management tool which allows you to create tasks, assign owners and set milestones, with a calendar, reports, time tracking and file sharing.

Projjex is an interesting online project management solution profiled on Web Worker Daily today. I currently use Basecamp, mostly because of trust in 37signals integrity with my data. Its probably the one area people don’t seem to be assessing at present. Do I know you enough to trust you with my client’s data? And my livelihood? Will you sell it to third parties? You see from a marketing perspective there’s a strong reason to pitch into that ballpark of trust. I like the look of Projexx and don’t get me wrong, they seem like very good people. Give them a try.