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Mashup Challenge Winner, Triumphant Update

Over 60,000 people flocked to the Mashup Challenge entry since Saturday, which was certainly helped along by being at the top of Reddit and on Digg at overlapping times, so thanks to everybody for digging, submitting, linking, commenting, and reading. On to the good news!

As of yesterday, the logo is gone! I don’t know if it’s down permanently or whether they’re removing it from their ad campaigns, but I think this is definitely something for everybody to be happy about. A few emails were sent on my part to their legal team (no response yet however) but I think the biggest force in this situation had to be the community uprising that everyone participated in, and for that I thank all of you. One of the things that companies don’t realize is the power of blogs, and that’s evident via a quick Google search for Meridian Communications — my friend Nathan Smith’s entry about what happened comes up pretty close to the top. The next time a potential client researches their firm, they might actually end up reading about this entire situation and maybe thinking twice.

I don’t know what legal or logistical steps were involved in removing it from the website, but I want to personally thank the people at Meridian Communications for listening to some random designer’s email pleas. I don’t have a legal team, I don’t have a fancy office, and I sure as hell don’t have (or want!) gigantic multi-national companies as clients, but I do have email, I do have my blog, and I do have 9rules, and I think the combination of those three is pretty darn powerful.

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Mistakes That Kill Startups

Even though Paul Graham and I had some “fun” in my Kiko synopsis, I obviously still respect his opinions. His latest entry, The 18 Mistakes That Kill Startups is definitely worth a read, and in this entry I wanted to go over some of it.

Bad Location — Startups prosper in some places and not others. Silicon Valley dominates, then Boston, then Seattle, Austin, Denver, and New York. After that there’s not much.

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Returning The Favor: The Toyota Mashup Challenge!

After a long week I found out that the advertising agency representing Toyota seems to have taken some creative license with the 9rules logo. Toyota Georgetown is having a conference where for some reason they thought it appropriate to modify the 9rules logo a little bit and use it as their logo for the conference. Here’s a little graphic design sequence showing just how closely their “logo” matches up with ours:

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Fixed-Width Designs and Usability

With a few prominent web designers rethinking their sites with a fixed-width layout, I think its necessary to take a look at the usability benefits and downfalls of such a decision.

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