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In its first big move to implement the stricter ad guidelines it introduced this summer, Facebook recently suspended applications that served advertisements with deceptive content within them. The apps were suspended without warning, leaving developers confused as to why Facebook took this action and didn’t give them a chance to handle the offending ads first, according to Nick O’Neill over at AllFacebook, who first reported the story over the weekend. This confusion is likely a result of a problem we discussed earlier: Facebook’s vagueness about how its ad approval process actually works.

Schools all over the country have flocked to podcasting as a new medium to assist the teaching profession. Professors are using podcasts to instruct students and get their messages out. Podcasting is not restricted to one educational sector, professors at prestigious colleges from Bentley to Purdue have flocked to this medium.

Traditional measures of business success are becoming less and less important.

Flash Professional CS5 will enable you to build applications for iPhone and iPod touch using ActionScript 3. These applications can be delivered to iPhone and iPod touch users through the Apple App Store.*

From 0.1 seconds to 10 years or more, user interface design has many different timeframes, and each has its own particular usability issues.