Linkswitch!
Collis Ta'eedOK I think it’s been a little too long since my last linkswitch, because my Delicious folder of links is pretty darn full, so without further delay, here are a whole heap of great sites to visit:
New Blogs!
Three new blogs popped up on my radar in the last couple of weeks, two freelancing blogs and one awesome logo blog:
- Profreelancing
- FreelanceSprout
- LogoDesignLove from the talented David Airey
A couple of links for Photographers
- 5 Tips to Get the Most out of Freelance Photography
- Interview with an NYC Creative
- Photopreneur - a really neat site about making money with photography
Neat Links for Developers
- Because open source is the bomb - 10 golden rules for running an open source project and 10 golden rules for starting with open source
- oDesk’s Oconomy - so you can see just how much money is being turned over every minute
- The 10 Most Marketable Web Development Skills - according to Read/Write/Web
And some for Designers
- ReviewBasics - which is a bit similar to ConceptShare. I’m planning writing these two services up properly soon, as they are pretty cool
- Elements of Typographic Style Online
- Typesites - a website gallery that takes a slightly different approach
- An old link, but a good one, Chris Pearson asks How Much Should a Design Cost?
- Check out Lumedia for some awesome photoshopping goodness. Kyle of Lumedia, has also written an awesome wood tutorial at PSDTUTS.
- 11 Ways to Get Exposure as a Web Designer at the fabulous VandelayDesign
- Neatorama’s Evolution of Tech Logos makes for an interesting read.
- Extensis Typecaster - Fonts find true love online - because even fonts celebrate Valentines Day
And a few more general ones
- 6 Reasons to Become Self Employed from Wisebread
- TutorialBlog has a couple of great resource posts - Time Tracking Tools and 20 Resources for Freelancers
- And a neat Wordpress blog theme called Freelancr!
Finally one for the Writers
- How to Find and Secure Freelance Writing Clients by Chris Bibey, over at Entrepreneurs-Journey
Josh Breinlinger
February 14th, 2008
Thanks for putting up the link to the new oConomy. We’re glad to be able to share some information with the community. If anyone has further information that they’d like to see in the oConomy or ideas for additional charts / maps / etc, just let us know on our blog or forums.
-Josh
oDesk
Jason
February 14th, 2008
Thanks for the great round up. Found a few I will be checking out.
David Airey
February 14th, 2008
Hi Collis,
Thanks very much for mentioning my new logo design website, and for the compliment. Keep up the great work here.
Zach
February 14th, 2008
Always love it when FS can focus on photography!
Carmen
February 14th, 2008
Hey, Collis, the Lumedia link is not working here. Is on sale :O
Btw. Thanx for the new links
Laura
February 14th, 2008
I’ll definitely be checking these blogs out. Thanks so much for finding them.
Chad | ProFreelancing
February 14th, 2008
Hey Collis, thanks for the link - and for passing on a bundle of other great sites that I can check out. Great job!
Scott
February 14th, 2008
Wow, the ReviewBasics.com is awesome!
Jerret
February 14th, 2008
Hi Collis,
Thank you so much for the link. You made my Valentine’s day!
-Jerret
G
February 14th, 2008
Thanks a lot Collis, that LogoDesignLove blog looks awesome.
Naz
February 14th, 2008
Thanks for adding me on, Collis.
Much appreciated.
Jon
February 14th, 2008
Cool, some new feeds to add to my yahoo! Thanks.
Michele - Writing the Cyber Highway
February 14th, 2008
What awesome sites! Thanks for sharing them. I’m on my way now to check them out now…
~Michele
Collis Ta'eed
February 14th, 2008
You’re welcome guys!
@Carmen: thanks for the heads up, that’s so weird, I dunno where his site’s gone
I’ll email him!
Steven Snell
February 15th, 2008
Collis,
Thanks for the link. It’s very much appreciated.
Jermayn Parker
February 15th, 2008
Another new website!
http://www.kick2kick.net
All about teaching people how to understand and play the game of Australian Football
Mat
February 15th, 2008
Hi Collis
If you like ReviewBasics and Conceptshare, you should check out ProofHQ as well. It has great online reviewing tools, plus approvals workflow, so you can track who has signed off a proof and who hasn’t. We have also built a desktop widget for easy upload of proofs and you can upload multi-page proofs. As an added bonus you can send large files through the system.
Tim Shih
February 15th, 2008
Hi Collis,
Thank you for mentioning ReviewBasics!
Sincerely,
Tim
http://www.reviewbasics.com
Jacob
February 18th, 2008
We are holding a $5000 Graphic Design Prize Giveaway over at Just Creative Design.
I submitted it for the next link switch post but by then it will be a bit too late…
http://justcreativedesign.com/2008/02/17/5000-dollar-prize-giveaway-graphic-design-group-writing-project
If you could update it in this post it would be appreciated. If not, this comment will have to do…
Deadline of the competition is: Tuesday 4th March. Don’t miss out
Thanks for another good roundup.